links for 2007-02-22
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Interesting new book I am hoping to read – along the lines of a Jyte claim I made the other day about being able to make a living doing what you love…
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If you have not seen this post yet, it is still getting a bit of pick up – which is what happens when you occasionally have something good to say, but not a ton of people listening each day…
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Jeremiah really works hard at this stuf – this is a great list of all the different social networking platforms available. Funny thing is I still don’t see one that really does what I would like it to do…
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Great primer on naming a company – actually, great protocols/steps to follow. Mike is a really smart guy too…
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Tip to Jeff Nolan for highlighting this great initiative backed by Scott McNealy – this has been on my mind since I first wrote The Noble Pursuit – I only wish I had enough energy and time to help along all these great causes…
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Great take on a great ad – poignant storytelling that creates an impact – this is the true potential of what social media can do – with one person sharing this video, it can hopefully change the course of hundreds of lives, with hundreds sharing…
links for 2007-02-21
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This is a great article courtesy of my friend and modern nomad Livio that covers some interesting approaches to doing video production and producing interviews
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Would really like a docking station for my MacBook at the office so I can get a few extra screens in front of me – too much going on with all these windows….
If Pitney Bowes calls one more time…
Just received our 3rd marketing call from Pitney Bowes today – rather than letting me tell her to take us off their list, she just hung up. Could barely hear any of them, and they could not really hear me because the bullpen they are all in is crazy noisy. If they call again, maybe I can sell her some email software…
links for 2007-02-20
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Interestingly, I was building a mindmap around the importance of questions at the heart of what we do and realized we needed to move beyond IT to “knowledge technology” – interestingly, the number of answers was 420,000
links for 2007-02-19
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Great personal look at Sergey – slow and long story, but interesting…
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This is a great pointer to some resources that will reduce the amount of junk mail that gets sent through USPS regularly – take action today!
links for 2007-02-17
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Very cool twiter mashup as art… sometimes more interesting than others…
links for 2007-02-15
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I guess one of the reasons I want Social Media Club to be more of a social entrepreneurial venture instead of a traditional non-profit is spelled out in this story. I can hardly fathom a resource like Wikipedia disappearing due to cash management issues,
links for 2007-02-13
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While I understand where Casey is coming from, I also understand the award organizer’s perspective of trying to do good for the community and dealing with criticism. Interesting read on many levels…
links for 2007-02-08
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An interesting approach to programming related to Django – really fundamentally agree with the core philosophy, interested in learning more.
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Very interesting update on the continuing explosion of the surveillance society….
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Good look at other uses of podcasting for education
Making sure EVERYONE gets credit for their contributions
Posted by cheuer in Leadership on February 7th, 2007
In my meandering through the blogosphere this morning, I came upon a post from Kaliya about why certain contributors to the OpenID effort were not properly attributed in a recent announcement. She has since posted a response she received from the PR person who handled the announcement, pointing to the ever increasing complexity of having more people involved in getting approval etc… While that is true, to acknolwwedge a significant contribution from an organization or individual is very important, and I believe was mishandled in this case.
I was trying to add my comment on her original post, but apparently you must be a registered user on her blog to do so, which I am not. So I am posting it here instead, because this is a very important point to make:
Yes Kaliya – everyone shoud work hard to be more inclusive and appreciative of other people’s contributions to the broader community. It is a shame that so many times, a few people who are working so hard to be leaders within a given community of practice choose to not attribute or give credit where credit is due – it seems to happen all the time and unless it stops soon, many people who do not already embrace the open source ethos will choose not to share and not to contribute to the commons. There needs to be at the very least, a modicum of repsect given to every contributor, and more for major contributors, to every community effort rather than the selective approach that seems so prevalent.
If we can’t reward people financially for their contributions, we must absolutely reward people and give them respect through accreditation – something that has been sorely lacking for too long among many of the vanguard in the current societal transformation. During my lunch with David Brin last week, we dove deep into the idea of mutually beneficial reciprocity. After that conversation I came away understanding the importance of this one shared value as the basis of collaboration in the commons. I will be posting some audio on Social Media Club soon and writing more of my thoughts there…
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Chris Heuer is the founder of Mentor Bureau, a global collaborative of Startup Mentors focused on #SmoothScaling over #Hypergrowth. He has invested his life in working to create a better society through personal and community efforts that brings people together such as Rysing Tyde and Social Media Club. To learn more about Chris, visit his profile on LinkedIn.