Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0 – Page 5

Use Extreme Leverage 2.0 to Change The Social World

Mar 11, 2011

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in Employees/Individuals, Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Traditionally, extreme leverage is something organizations worked hard to avoid. Now, in the social media landscape, “Extreme Leverage 2.0” is something that evey organization should embrace. Why? Because Extreme Leverage 2.0 allows a few people, in relatively small businesses, to change the world for their stakeholders. Understanding Extreme Leverage 2.0 In the world of corporate finance,…

She Should Talk At TED Twitter Campaign: F.A.Q.

Mar 6, 2011

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cv harquail

in Diversity & Feminism, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

The @SheTalksTED Twitter account has been busy this week, nominating over 350 influential women (and counting!) as possible speakers for future TED conferences. In addition to lots of suggestions, and support, we’ve also gotten some questions about the @SheTalksTED campaign. We hope that our answers, below, fill in the blanks. Please tweet us or send…

Because Women Have “Ideas Worth Spreading” : TED2011 Action Steps

Feb 27, 2011

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in Great Examples, Organizational Identity, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Uncategorized

The 2011 TED conference begins Tuesday in Long Beach CA. Of the 55 folks who will present “Ideas worth Spreading”, 15 of these speakers will be women. That’s a whopping 27%… no improvement over previous years, and nowhere near gender parity. To celebrate the 15 Women who will take the TED stage, and to encourage…

Social Media for Social Change — Inside the Organization?

Feb 15, 2011

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in Leading for Authenticity, Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

This post is featured on Social Media Today. How has the activity of organizational change been changed, with the advent of social media? Back when I was an internal OD/Org Change manager in the Soap Plant, we spread ideas about change the old-fashioned ways: meetings, photocopied paper mail, and face-to-face conversations. With the rise of…

CSR that Improves the World But Leaves Your Damaging Business Model Intact: Authentic or not?

Feb 9, 2011

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cv harquail

in Authentic or Not?, Claims vs. Behaviors, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

How can your organization claim to be making the world better, when your business model depends on making the world worse? This question about corporate social responsibility efforts has bugged me for decades — pretty much since I learned what capitalism was. The question came up again for me Tuesday during the conversation at the…

What You Can Do about the Gender Gap on Wikipedia: The WWHACKathon

Jan 31, 2011

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in Diversity & Feminism, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

It’s only 9:15 on a Monday morning and already I’ve received six emails suggesting that I blog about today’s New York Times article about the Gender Gap at Wikipedia. What really is there to say, that hasn’t been said before? We know about how men’s self-confidence, geek machismo, and other dynamics of male-ism influence the…

How Social Media Reveals Invisible Work

Jan 27, 2011

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in Claims vs. Behaviors, Employees/Individuals, Generative Orgs, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Social Media helps us get work done. And, Social Media has a unique ability to show us something about how we get work done that we often overlook. It allows us to see both conventional work and “invisible work”. What is invisible work? Invisible work includes all kinds of energy and tasks that contribute to…

Your Authentic Social Network: The Identity Graph

Jan 24, 2011

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in Creating Authenticity, Generative Orgs, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Work-Life-Meaning

You’ve heard about the Social Graph and the Interest Graph. Now meet the Identity Graph— the online network of the authentic, social, interpersonal you. Different kinds of relationships create different graphs. Each of us has our own social network that’s comprised of a hodgepodge of different kinds of connections. We have social connections between neighbors,…

How Social Media Create Organizational Meaning

Jan 18, 2011

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in Creating Authenticity, Employees/Individuals, Leading for Authenticity, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Social media tools can transform an organization. One of the things I enjoy so much about social media is the chance to be (more often) the person I am, with my specific sets of talents, interests, and goals. Every time I extend myself out on social media, I get to choose what I’ll say, how…

Re-creating Organizational Reputation Using Social Media: Not quite outdated ideas

Jan 14, 2011

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in Creating Authenticity, Image & Reputation, Members’ connections to Orgs, Research & Science, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

As much as I love academic writing, conducting studies and developing theories, all of this work shares one acute problem — it takes forever to get from first draft to print. My just-published journal article with Adelaide King took about 8 years from idea to print, while the germinal paper on Organizational Identity & Identification…

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