... a beginner at something

Defining Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives

Shared, because this 1-pager offers a workable way to define these in strategic management system context. May there be fewer lame and limp corporate statements like those you could get from the  Corporate BS Generator (the image source).

 

 

Gaijin Hero shared the equivalent in human appearance (cosplay character).

Co... -mpeti, -opera, -llabora, -crea ...tion?? Collaboratory Learning!

This riff on learning together is (i) inspired by Michelle James: From Competition to Cocreation - and Back Sometimes. 

Image: Second Life: Eduisland II: ISTE Collaboratory & Idea Library: Tour: Right of Front Door by rosefirerising

 

What we know to be true

co mpeti tion		I win you lose
co opera tion		conditional love
co llabora tion		more than the sum of our parts
co crea tion		open space for creative emergence

The First Social Media: The Air

With social media being a frequent object of buzz itself and self-proclaimed experts offering help with all this newfangled stuff, let me ask you this:

What's really new?

Indeed, the  air that we breathe was the very first social media.

Let me prove it — after giving thanks to authors and articles that (i) inspired this one:

Amber: An Open Letter to the Social Business Industry

Matt: What You Need, When You Need It - Contextual Relevance In Social Influence

Gratitude to @Ambercadabra for insisting. And others for prodding me on.

Now, how is it the air is the very first social media? Or rather why do people talk about social media as if it was ... [fill in the blank your way] and more?

 

Sexy standardization saves, um, cost

No, I am not touching on brassieres here, where standardization could save the beauties in our life some time shopping, should the industry finally agree on more reliable size and fit standards. For most other clothing the garment industry has standardized pretty well, but then that is less crucial in fit and less intensely looked at, right?

2010-12-15 Update: to give this topic more of the space it deserves, I moved it to a new blog. Join in at  Stand on Standardization 

 

Yes, standardization can be sexy and it does save cost

Standards reduce cost and hassle, because they make products and services interoperable. They make markets more accessible to consumers, makers, and suppliers. Standards make safety, performance, and other compliance assessments and certification affordable, further adding to trust between global trading partners.

As in this example, you can buy bolts in bulk from Germany, and nuts in lots from Japan, and - ta-da - they have perfect fit for effective, um, screwing on the assembly line. The profits and success of using standards are obvious, on one hand.

Thank you - if you wish for more frequent posting on this blog.

As a naive English speaker (not native), I enjoy the convenience of adding my brief take to focused quotes made easy by Amplify. See me more frequently, yet less deeply on http://cocreatr.amplify.com/

I post here if I feel it is important enough to merit many of my words or few of my images.

Who was "on-line" a hundred years ago?

I woke up with a conceptual understanding what we can be doing here, I like to express this in similarities and differences to an on-line community more than 100 years old. You may know one, have seen what they do or can probably imagine about the tribe of ...

Radio amateurs.

I think we are building together in a direction largely similar to the radio amateurs and their tireless exploration of new frontiers. If we need any more rules, we can borrow from their experience and practice.

Yahoogle no more

Both Yahoo and Google have served many of us well, but now that the internet has been almost full for two years or more, I think the days of search engines as we know them are numbered.

No, the combined yahooglesearch.com is not the next new solution, it runs on the same old two engines side-by-side.

How to top a purple cow?

Three wise monkeys from Japan?

The collectible totem by Seth Godin?

Fine art prints by Hugh MacLeod?

I am floored. Each is remarkable.

The most remarkable in the trio is ________ [your choice].

"All the News That Fits to Print"

Tom twittered the lead to this image.

How have our brains changed in a century? We used to read newspapers that looked like this http://bit.ly/15s277. Imagine that now?

Thank you. Done. A snip of what it looked like a hundred years ago.

Seth blogged his prediction, actually three, with an insight and a question.

Prediction: there will be no significant newspapers printed on newsprint in the US by 2012. So, you've got two and a half years before the newspaper industry is going to be doing something else with the news and the ads, or not be there at all. Does that change what you do today if you work in this business?
...
It seems to me that if you know the old world is about to end, you'd run like crazy to master the new one.

So that is why so many take up blogging?
Or microblog every day. Tweets rule for brevity and focus.

Thank you for being generous and brief, my twitter-friends.
Enjoy twitter fan poetry.