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There Are No Rules on Social Web. A Return to Lord of the Flies: The Business Model

July 25, 2011 by Kneale Mann with 141 views

On the social web, it's your choice to listen, engage, and react. You'll need to build your own rules to be accountable to someone, even just yourself. [read more]

Using Social Media to Pay it Forward: Social For The Greater Good

May 17, 2010 by Chuck Hester with 770 views

Anyone that is connected with me on LinkedIn or Twitter knows that I'm a big advocate of Paying it Forward.  In fact my first book talked about the subject - and encouraged readers to embrace the philosophy.  In the past few years I have had the privilege of meeting what I call - for a lack of a better term - social media do... [read more]

Thinking About Etsy In The San Telmo Markets

December 30, 2009 by Fred Wilson with 157 views

The streets of the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires turn into a big outdoor market on Sundays. Our family spent Sunday afternoon there this past weekend. As I strolled around, I could not help but think of Etsy, what it has become and what more it needs to do to realize its potential. But first a little backdrop. This decade we... [read more]

More Behaviour Less Measurement

July 3, 2009 by Gavin Heaton with 152 views

New strategies require new measurement – or so says Helge Tenno. In this fantastic presentation, Helge suggests that when it comes to the social web, we are using the “destination web” as a basis for measurement – and we are, therefore, using an outdated system to measure the efficacy of emergent networks of value. And I tend to agree.... [read more]

Forrester on The Future of the Social Web

June 25, 2009 by Steve King with 254 views

I had the opportunity earlier this week to participate in a panel discussing the future of the social web at a Society For New Communications Research (SNCR) event hosted by SAP.  Forrester's Jeremiah Owyang was the star attraction and he presented the results from his recently completed study on this topic,... [read more]

#13: Here's a thought...

June 14, 2009 by BrianRoger with 133 views

An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on MyVenturePad reveals the following nuggets:Aha!The big aha of the social web is the democratization of content, both creating and sharing it. The consumers to whom we want to sell have become producers, or so the liturgy goes, who insist on participating in our businesses.... [read more]

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