Network. If ever there was a word misused, overused, misunderstood, bashed, battered, worshiped, idealized and yet generally aspirational, it’s Network.
Posts Tagged ‘social networking’
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Network
- Networks are mathematical abstractions denoting relationships between entities. Pretty dry if you don't love theorems.
Networks only start to get interesting when the relationships get clothed in meaning (ie, what they mean to the linked entities), and when activity results in (and throughout) the network because of entities using their relationships.
Activity means that entities, or some of them, by using ...Read more >Posted by Tom Osborn on 2008-06-11 04:58:27
- Makes me think of the constant need for us to operate as a 'team' for our clients, whether within Wunderman, within WPP ... or even a looser affiliation. And even more important is the fundamental requirement for 'team spirit'.
Dictionary.com describes this as ‘the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed”. Contributing for the greater ...Read more >Posted by Chris Jeffares on 2008-06-11 00:35:51
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Jesse James
I am guilty. Boy, am I guilty. I often feel like the infamous Jesse James of American Old Wild West legend and lore. I have an itchy trigger finger. The Mobile Device is out of the holster and the bullets.read e-mails… flying faster than the eye can see…
As a follow up to last week, I decided to go “true confessions”—the trials and tribulations of social networking as expressed through the e-mail channel.
- can you call me to explain that more......seriously -- I see it like that old United commercial -- get closer to yoru clinets -- get back on the road -- sometimes a call or a better thought out note is what it takes. Also recentky read that teh habit of getting teh last word in -- with a letter like K ...
- Not many years ago I built some email classifiers for a start-up (computer forensics and email analytics). Their first classifier (using their own email server) split email into business vs non-business ("personal"). Accuracy was up over 85%. One guy sent 95% "personal" and the company average was a bit over 50%. The most revealing finding was that the strongest predictor ...
- I'm going to side with David on this one. It's not a matter of purposely sitting on the response, it's about thinking before you shoot back, which we, myself included, do too often. Responsive is good, thoughtful response is better, and that doesn't always happen without a bit of reflection. And, sometimes picking up the phone, or getting the ...
