Further to yesterday’s post, here is a link to what Clay Shirky thinks is the next big thing…
@cshirky
After FB and Twitter, people often ask “What’s the next big thing?” I used to say “I don’t know.” Now I say “Github.” bit.ly/AcjRi4
Posted by: andytedd | January 26, 2012
The next big thing
Posted by: andytedd | January 26, 2012
Links 01/26/2012
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We Media – How audiences are shaping the future of news and information
We are at the beginning of a Golden Age of journalism — but it is not journalism as we have known it. Media futurists have predicted that by 2021, “citizens will produce 50 percent of the news peer-to-peer.” However, mainstream news media have yet to meaningfully adopt or experiment with these new forms.
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Citation for Lancaster’s CT Matrix
Citation for the graphic in the book mark below
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Consumer-Technology Matrix (CTM) graphic
The Consumer Technology Matrix (CTM), as shown to the right, defines four types: Support Derivatives Platform Breakthrough or DisruptiveThe classification of the four types of product innovations are based on the level of novelty of both the:perceived value of product benefits(no change, variant, improvement, new benefit and new core);enabling technology(base, incremental, next generation and radical).
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Twitter Quo Vadis: Is Twitter Bitter or Are Tweets Sweet?
This research explores the phenomenon of Twitter to better understand the diffusion of this new technology as a social networking tool. Twitter is a real-time messaging service centered on the question, “What are you doing?” This question is answered with short posts of 140 characters or less. Twitter’s `tweets’ are sent to any number of people who choose to follow a person’s Twitter updates. Twitter’s recent growth has been impressive. Based on its growth curve, Twitter appears to be in the Early Adopter stage and is showing signs of entering the Early Majority stage. As Twitter continues to diffuse into the social networking arena, we find great potential for it as a communication medium. Twitter has shown how a medium for social networking and micro-blogging can be used as both a tool for delivering essential information, i.e., news, as well as a medium for delivering non-essential information, i.e., personal messages. We find that although Twitter’s impressive rate of diffusion continues to grow, it is beginning to wane.
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Innovation is not creativity. Creativity is about coming up with the big idea. Innovation is about executing the idea — converting the idea into a successful business.
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Twitter grows in UK and goes mainstream / We Are Social
Very useful graph which highlights twitter’s demographic anomolies compared to the UK population ie liberal bias – at least its heading to normal…
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Posted by: andytedd | January 25, 2012
Is twitter becoming the digital suburbs in the UK?
Are innovators and early adopters likely to move onto the next big thing soon?
UK population 2010 62.2m (ONS, 2011)
Based on Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation (Rogers, 1959) we would expect the theoretical twitter populations of:
Innovators (2.5%) = 1.55m
Early Adopters (13.5%) = 8.37m
Combined (16%) = 9.92m
Estimated UK twitter population 15.5m
Estimated active UK twitter population = 5.1m (~32%)
So depending on what you estimate the proportion of active accounts to be it might be time for the early majority to start moving in. Great news if you are hoping twitter will help you shift product, less good if you are looking for bright ideas, and a total nightmare if you work in customer service…
Of course you have to ask innovators of what? early adpoters of what? Early adopters of <your product or service> may not be on twitter or any social media platform.
But my study is in social networking and media – so I expect a close correlation between the two populations. And just because they have moved on doesn’t mean they will stop using twitter, it’s just insight and intelligence will become harder to find in an increasingly turbulent sea of dross and spam. Example – today’s top UK hashtags #hungry (promoted by Snickers) and #GreatestTits.
Big sigh.
Networks, specifically lists, will play an increasing role in filtering lame content – but then that runs the risk of online collectivism (Lanier, 2006) and balkanism when programme-makers and journalists seeking to innovate should be thinking about ways social networking can expose them to greater intellectual diversity (Kao, 1997).
So – what’s the next cool thing? (that isn’t that big yet…)
(Say foursquare and I will be the mayor of whupass…)
Thanks to umph for a nice picture of (estimated) UK social meejah usage:
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Posted by: andytedd | January 25, 2012
The evolution of a research question
Determining best practice in using social media to support creativity and innovation in the UK media industry.
(creativity is a dirty word)
Determing best practice is using social media to support innovation in the UK media industry.
(we’re not determining anything)
How does social media support innovation in the UK media industry?
(scope too broad, can be more specific, I dont expect the writer of Sherlock to start crowdsourcing ideas any time soon)
How does social media support innovation in factual programming and journalism in the UK media industry?
(question inherently technologically deterministic – I am so not)
(broadcast and online journalism = a type of factual programming)
How is innovation in factual programming in the UK supported by social media?
(could be interpreted as having a predetermind outcome)
In what ways* is innovation in factual programming in the UK supported by social media?
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Are we there yet?
A good title always comes last…
*(if any)
Posted by: andytedd | January 25, 2012
Links 01/25/2012
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The Role of Hubs in the Innovation Adoption Process
“The authors explore the role of hubs (people with an exceptionally large number of social ties) in diffusion and adoption. Using data on a large network with multiple adoptions, they identify two types of hubs—innovative and follower hubs. Contrary to recent arguments, hubs tend to adopt earlier in the diffusion process, even though they are not necessarily innovative. Although innovative hubs have a greater impact on the speed of the adoption process, follower hubs have a greater impact on market size (total number of adoptions). Importantly, a small sample of hubs offers accurate success versus failure predictions early in the diffusion process.”
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“Presentation of self (via Goffman) is becoming increasingly popular as a means for explaining differences in meaning and activity of online participation. This article argues that self-presentation can be split into performances, which take place in synchronous “situations,” and artifacts, which take place in asynchronous “exhibitions.” Goffman’s dramaturgical approach (including the notions of front and back stage) focuses on situations. Social media, on the other hand, frequently employs exhibitions, such as lists of status updates and sets of photos, alongside situational activities, such as chatting.”
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Case Study Research in Practice – Helen Simons – Google Books
“Case Study Research in Practice explores the author’s practical and uniquely personal approach to the theory and practice of case study research. Author Helen Simons draws on her extensive experience in conducting and teaching case study research to provide a comprehensive and insightful account of the process of conducting case study that tackles common misconceptions and addresses the questions often raised by students.”
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“masters and doctoral theses which followed an action research approach”
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Trust Barometer Executive Summary | | 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer2012 Edelman Trust Barometer
The 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer measures attitudes about the state of trust in business, government, NGOs, and media across 25 countries.
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Action research: a methodological introduction
As a result of its greatly increased in popularity and range of
application, action research has now become a loosely applied
term for any kind of attempt to improve or investigate practice.
In view of the confusion that frequently arises from this, the
main aim of this author is to clarify the term. After a brief history
of the method, the makes a case for regarding action research as
one of a number of different forms of action inquiry which he
briefly defines as any ongoing, systematic, empirically based
attempt to improve practice.
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Posted by: andytedd | January 20, 2012
Links 01/20/2012
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SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals of the Web – Jaron Lanier
“a very different factor — proprietary social networking — is ending my freedom to participate in the forums I used to love, at least on terms I accept. Like many other forms of contact, the musical conversations are moving into private sites, particularly Facebook. To continue to participate, I’d have to accept Facebook’s philosophy, under which it analyzes me, and is searching for new ways to charge third parties for the use of that analysis. “
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Posted by: andytedd | January 18, 2012
Links 01/18/2012
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Organizational Competences for Open Innovation 2010.pdf (application/pdf Object)
In this paper, a conceptual approach to link organizational and individual competences in open innovation processes is presented. Based on a comprehensive system of hypotheses derived from recent literature, the current state-of-the-art in the discussion about organizational antecedents of open innovation is characterized, and further research identified.
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The Wiki: an environment to revolutionise employees’ interaction with corporate knowledge
“Some corporations have adopted a Wiki on their Intranets for employees to collectively store, edit and access work-related material such as reports, best-practice features, and documents. As such collaborative software moves from the social to the corporate arena, it is bound to challenge management authority, engaging the knowledge worker in a more participatory knowledge capability and environment. This paper explores the implication that this revolution has for the interaction of corporate users with technology that will lead to a profound change in organisational culture.”
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Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise
One of the greatest challenges facing people who use large information spaces is to remember and retrieve items that they have previously found and thought to be interesting. One approach to this problem is to allow individuals to save particular search strings to re-create the search in the future.
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Motivations for social networking at work
“The introduction of a social networking site inside of a large enterprise enables a new method of communication between colleagues, encouraging both personal and professional sharing inside the protected walls of a company intranet. Our analysis of user behavior and interviews presents the case that professionals use internal social networking to build stronger bonds with their weak ties and to reach out to employees they do not know. Their motivations in doing this include connecting on a personal level with coworkers, advancing their career with the company, and campaigning for their projects.”
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WaterCooler: exploring an organization through enterprise social media
“As organizations scale up, their collective knowledge increases, and the potential for serendipitous collaboration between members grows dramatically. However, finding people with the right expertise or interests becomes much more difficult. Semi-structured social media, such as blogs, forums, and bookmarking, present a viable platform for collaboration-if enough people participate, and if shared content is easily findable. Within the trusted confines of an organization, users can trade anonymity for a rich identity that carries information about their role, location, and position in its hierarchy.”
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Applying social technology to Business Process Lifecycle Management | QUT ePrints
“In recent years social technologies such as wikis, blogs or microblogging have seen an exponential growth in the uptake of their user base making this type of technology one of the most significant networking and knowledge sharing platforms for potentially hundreds of millions of users. However, the adoption of these technologies has been so far mostly for private purposes. First attempts have been made to embed features of social technologies in the corporate IT landscape, and Business Process Management is no exception. This paper aims to consolidate the opportunities for integrating social technologies into the different stages of the business process lifecycle. Thus, it contributes to a conceptualization of this fast growing domain, and can help to categorize academic and corporate development activities.”
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“This paper presents a propositional framework for an updated understanding of the relationship between the internal social networks of a multinational enterprise (MNE), harnessing of tacit knowledge within these networks, the role that culture plays in tacit knowledge exchange, and the ultimate creation of innovation. Thus, we examine theories of tacit knowledge creation and exchange, social networking theory, cultural influences and propose an integrated understanding of MNE innovation creation through internal social networks. “
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“We studied the evolution of an online innovation community and users’ interaction behavior through social network analysis to explore how to build an innovation community and get a better understanding about the role of participating users and their innovative content. Throughout our analysis we explicitly recognize that the primary desired outcome of an online innovation community is the generation of innovation and breakthrough ideas and therefore simultaneously consider the user itself as well as the user generated ideas. “
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“Herminia Ibarra and Steven B. Andrews
Administrative Science Quarterly
Vol. 38, No. 2 (Jun., 1993), pp. 277-303
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Networks and social capital in the UK television industry: The weakness of weak ties
“Accounts of the shift to post-industrial modes of employment have tended to present an over-simplified view of networks as an assemblage of contacts used to gain individual advantage in the labour market. Creative industries represent a challenge to this as typically they rely on networks to foster collaboration, trust and co-operation. In this article we explore how a variety of networks are used to promote both individual competition and co-operation in an industry where re-regulation has resulted in the break up of bureaucratic organizations and widespread casualization of the labour market. We argue that there is a need to extend the debate on the role of networks in a casualized labour market to examine how individuals organize themselves via the plethora of networks that result from organizational break up.”
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” Existing theories on the influence of social networks on creativity focus on idea generation. Conversely, the new product development literature concentrates more on the selection of ideas and projects. In this paper we bridge this gap by developing a dynamic framework for the role of social networks from idea generation to selection. We apply findings from creativity and behavioural decision-making literature and present an in-depth understanding of the sociological processes in the front-end of the new product development process.”
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Strong ties, weak ties and islands: structural and cultural predictors of organizational innovation
“How does the tendency of entrepreneurs to engage in innovation relate to their structural and cultural embeddedness? Using micro‐data on entrepreneurial teams and the organizational innovations they attempt to develop, this article presents a predictive model of creative action to address this question. Capacity for creative action is seen to be a function of the ability of entrepreneurs to (i) obtain non‐redundant information from their social networks; (ii) avoid pressures for conformity; and (iii) “
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The Strength of Weak Cooperation: an Attempt to Understand the Meaning of Web 2.0
This paper examines some continuities and ruptures in the use of Web 2.0 such as blogs, social media, user-generated content services etc. vis-à-vis earlier web services.
We hypothesize that one of the sociological characteristics of Web 2.0 services is that making personal production public creates a new articulation between individualism and solidarity, which reveals the strength of weak cooperation.
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Posted by: andytedd | January 12, 2012
Oliver Cromwell – about as much fun as stinging nettle underpants
Whenever a grown-up says “I don’t understand <some massively important historical event which has shaped our country>” I send them to Horrible Histories’ Bob Hale so they can find out all about it in three minutes.
Three minutes?!
Well, that means plenty of time for an educational showtune…
Don’t forget – kids aren’t as clever as they used to be, modern culture is dumbing us down etc etc etc
Posted by: andytedd | January 9, 2012
Links 01/09/2012
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Seductive Interfaces: Satisfying a Mass Audience
Having more features does not mean people can or will do
more with a computer application. Most people never
manage to use a large portion of the features many
products allow — even the most basic ones they need.
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Dropbox Squares Off With Apple’s iCloud | Epicenter | Wired.com
“From the very beginning, the founders of Dropbox knew they needed to tackle a set of massively complicated problems — problems that had flummoxed computer scientists for four decades and complicated the lives of computer users for as long as they’d had access to more than one workstation. Getting a set of files on one computer to match the files on another seems, on the surface, to be a simple enough task. But actually accomplishing it means scaling an established list of academic thought problems and rabbit hole engineering challenges.”
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CUNY TV » City University Television » About CUNY TV
“CUNY TV, the noncommercial cable television station of the City University of New York, is the largest public university television station in the U.S. Our mission is to extend the educational activities within the University beyond its 23 campuses to all New Yorkers, and to reflect the diverse needs and opinions of its faculty and students. Established in 1985, the station is carried in the five boroughs of New York, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
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Posted by: andytedd | December 20, 2011
Links 12/20/2011
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Social networking improves productivity
“IT leaders who restrict employee access to social media sites are not doing their employers any favours, according to new research.
An experiment by the National University of Singapore found that workers who are allowed access to social media sites are 39 per cent more productive than those who are not.
They were also less mentally exhausted and bored, and more psychologically engaged, the research found.”
No link to the actual journal article, so treat with caution…
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