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Re: The Quantified Self – Health and Well-Being Become Personal

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Re: When Engaging in Social Media – Focus on Which Needs You Satisfy

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Re: The Quantified Self – Health and Well-Being Become Personal

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Re: When Engaging in Social Media – Focus on Which Needs You Satisfy

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Re: The Quantified Self – Health and Well-Being Become Personal

Radha Madhav Dham — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:46:47 -0000

They are some of developing software and services, people who gather regularly are quantifying their own behavior in order to get smarter, faster etc.

Re: What Constitutes a Unique Community?

joshuamross — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:52:58 -0000

Hi Nicholas,
Fully agreed. Considering the underlying reasons people would want to form a community is crucial. Thanks for the comment.

Re: What Constitutes a Unique Community?

Nicholas Brooke — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:25:43 -0000

Nice post thx. Making the parallel with the offline community and the reason why these people gather or wondering around why they gather is the key question. You need a "social object". I have been through many community, especially companies wanting to upgrade their Intranet and turn it into a community. Never, they had defined a social object or the shared objective of people, the focus is always on the tool and its features.

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Re: The Quantified Self – Health and Well-Being Become Personal

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Re: The Quantified Self – Health and Well-Being Become Personal

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Re: Wells Fargo / Wachovia Blog: Lessons On How Blogs Are Still A Powerful Tool

Ted — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:17:26 -0000

Why isn't there a major uproar on how Wells Fargo is taking the funds out of your account on the 2-5 days before an e check is to be paid!?!? That is equivalent to them taking the money out of your account on the day you write a check. The money shouldn't come out of your account until the check clears! My money is going over to PNC immediately.

Re: Wells Fargo / Wachovia Blog: Lessons On How Blogs Are Still A Powerful Tool

Pete @ Wachovia Online Banking — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:10:40 -0000

A good blog will always help with communications between all stake holders. Wachovia and Wells Fargo did a particularly good job since Wells Fargo was kinda the pioneer when it comes to social technologies adoption. If I'm not mistaken, they started all their blogs circa 2005 and was the first financial institution to run with the new technologies.

Re: Google Plus, The Great Game and why Social is the One Ring

Adam Fairhead Creative — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:18:18 -0000

Great post Josh; G+ is looking awesome, and its integration is part of its beauty. I noticed a few distinct patterns in social networks myself! Wrote about them here: http://fairheadcreative.com/bl...

Re: Google Plus, The Great Game and why Social is the One Ring

joshuamross — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:57:14 -0000

thanks Thomas - and loved your post - especially the notion of design's responsibility in ensuring transparency. Very important point. I myself am quite leery of the increasing surveillance capacity that online tools provide. I wrote about this in detail as "Anonymity is the Fifth Estate: http://www.opposableplanets.co...

Re: Google Plus, The Great Game and why Social is the One Ring

Thomas Marzano — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:41:58 -0000

Great post Josh! And indeed G+ is pulling all those handy tools together into 1. I love the notion of being able to seamlessly integrate all my digital comms, files & tools. The one thing that freaks me out a bit, is the fact that all my digital activties are now channeled through one company... Google. As I wrote in my post "Privacy & Social Media | Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?" http://ow.ly/5vGPB I am hesitant to leave so many digital traces of myself through 1 giant corporate organization. Curious to how you feel about this Josh. Cheers for the post!

Re: As the Name Suggests: Google Plus will be an “And” not an “Or”

joshuamross — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:40:38 -0000

Hi Rik - I too am really liking Plus and I see it having much potential to bring together the various services that Google has in play (from Picasa to GoogleDocs, Maps etc.)... that is the subject of the latest post here: http://www.opposableplanets.co...

Re: As the Name Suggests: Google Plus will be an “And” not an “Or”

Rik Haslam — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:33:22 -0000

Good post Josh. I feel the same thing re circles. Do people really organise their lives like this. Neat concept, but not sure of real world utility. That said I am liking google+ and think it's got a good chance of success - but not domination.

Re: As the Name Suggests: Google Plus will be an “And” not an “Or”

Rik Haslam — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:33:20 -0000

Re: The Blurring Line Between Text and Speech (O’Reilly Radar)

Peter Kim — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:31:53 -0000

I'm with you - this evolution says as much about the listener / reader as the speaker / publisher. It takes two to tango.

Re: The Blurring Line Between Text and Speech (O’Reilly Radar)

Euan Semple — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:46:02 -0000

I remember seeing my first glimpse of this watching an HR director take part in a live online chat. Seeing him having to adapt his caution when writing text to an informal and chatty medium was fascinating.

Re: Intelligent Devices / Collective Intelligence

joshuamross — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:55:15 -0000

Ted - fantastic.
Yes - the cloud is the precondition that allows for all of this data to be pooled.

But your comment on point 3 (from my POV, that we will need to program for collective intelligence in order to manage the proliferating touchpoints that any sizable organization is trying to operate) - is what I find most interesting. I approached the subject from watching organizations struggle with the transaction costs of trying to deal with such complex "ecosystems" - and thinking that it resembles central planning. Once these plans leave the design room they hit user behaviors and expectations and things quickly get out of control. Central planning usually has poor measures, slow feedback and reality is created "in the building" and not out in the world where things are actually taking place. Your point is well-taken. I have not worked at any organization that has effectively been able to deploy against Big Data as you suggest.

Re: Intelligent Devices / Collective Intelligence

Ted Herman — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:17:53 -0000

Point 4 would be the role of Cloud as the place where the streams fuse, and become mined. Point 3 does not acknowledge the fundamental, intrinsic difficulty of distributed (decentralized) self management: higher-level thinkers usually dispatch such things as mere engineering concerns. But the dream of truly distributed self-organization (and self-healing, positive evolution, etc) will likely run into deep limits and basic conflicts of goals. And this gets us back to Point 1. Once we become aware of the costs and problematic choices, we may decide that *not* everything will get connected. Beyond the costs, we may find that collective intelligence is a capricious thing, unstable without selective application and guidance. The specification of "collective intelligence" itself is quite vague, so we really don't know what to expect.

Above, my thinking is to the distant future, not the next few coming years. When I think of business strategies, getting on board with Big Data, formalizing more data with the aim of converting it to information, using better computational tools, and a general "mashup" approach to doing things (with lots of other memes thrown in) does seem to be the trend, and it's sensible not to fight the trend. However, it's also wise to be careful of product designs with too much reliance on evolving platforms. A product that relies on five service platforms to perform robustly is inherently less vulnerable than one that relies on ten service platforms. Control those dependencies.

Re: Social Media Architecture – At Web 2.0 Expo in New York

Max Terry — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:05:12 -0000

Great post! Sorry I won't be there for the talk.

Re: Wells Fargo / Wachovia Blog: Lessons On How Blogs Are Still A Powerful Tool

Jmaches54 — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:49:39 -0000

As a former Wells Fargo / Wachovia team member in Bethlehem, PA, I feel that the company is divided. There is the Wachovia Bank that was second to none in customer service and customer loyality. Then there is the Wells Fargo division. What makes a company great and grow is it's devotion to it's customers. This is not the case with Wells Fargo. In the Wells Fargo world there is sales sales sales. None of the how do I help my customer? Let me say here and now I am not a disguntled former employee. I saw a change in the company away from customer service to selling more and more products. I watch my financialy challanged customers from having a little money, to having less money, to owing the bank money in overdraft fees. There where times that after I got off the phone I would cry. Now the shift is away from the adverage person on the street to the welthy customers. It's a shame that this is happing to a company that I use to believe in, and who I told all my friends and family about.

Re: Measure with a Purpose (for Forbes)

steroids — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:40:39 -0000

I think we can all put too much confidence in measurements.