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By: Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » Cheap Inspiration Officer

Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » Cheap Inspiration Officer — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:54:28 +0000

[…] All these words combined ? Chief Inspiration Officer, one of the job titles of the future (oh really) and a huge proof that the company who uses it does NOT get how innovation and inspiration work in a connected world. […]

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:55:10 +0000

Florian: I used diversity to mean “various and numerous communication channels”, like eye contact, body language, etc… That’s why I wrote “we’re losing a lot of diversity in the process”. I think that real, face to face interactions involve much more senses than IM, email, or any other computerized channel. Real life is a richer, more diverse experience.

colin: brands = peer opinions?

By: Florian L. Mayer

Florian L. Mayer — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:35:20 +0000

Really inspiring! I cannot agree to one point: “Sociality is getting less and less human, and we’re losing a lot of richness and diversity in the process” – Why? Only because we communicate more often to more people through the internet? Isn’t this an evidence for a higher diversity and richness? I see an other problem: the bondage to communicate, to contribute and of self-portrayal. Maybe society gets more penetrable only in one direction – it’s hard to become one of the connectors (>entry barriers, elite) and to stay, but it’s easier to fall.

By: Colin Henderson

Colin Henderson — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:14:04 +0000

This is a highly thoughtful piece, and goes to the core of the community argument. Community says that brands, advertising, corporations become secondary to peer opinion. Yet the points made here indicate that those peer opinions will be those of the meritocracy only. So the value of peer opinion is limited to those that participate. Perhaps this matters less within any one country that has high internet adoption, but on a global scale the situation is very different.

By: Bill Liao

Bill Liao — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:59:19 +0000

I have to say there is a very big difference between connectors and collectors.

Connectors have been aroudn for a logn time and the Internet gives them a new and powerful medium.

There is a cost though as there are now plenty of “collectors” out there hwo use Internet tools to mimic what a connector does to build social capital and they succeed often without same level of outward social benefit a rela connector provides.

The biggest chage I see is for mavens who now have a far bigger audience for their views and a much greater social reach than ever before.

True connectors are just doing more of what they have always done they are just better equipped.

I have also seen some evidence that people are hardwired to only be able to coep with 250 real contacts and it is a great area of exploration to me to see how this capacity can be extended so that people can maintain a growing number of deep relationships.

By: marco

marco — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:58:30 +0000

Great post – which brought to mind something I came across earlier today: Pete Townsend (the rockstar) is apparently a blogger – who actively reads other blogs and converses with the “little people”. After he recently posted comments on a few blogs, this guy made this point – which I think is pretty relevant to your post:

“When, in the past, could a group of writers essentially ping a rock star and get a thoughtful response in a matter of hours? I’ll tell you when – never. But tag a bunch of posts with Pete Townshend, get the feeds fired up, and word gets passed up the big media food chain pretty quickly – or rather, pretty directly. The point is: there is no food chain now – no Under-Secertaries of A&R and Communications to keep us away from them.”

http://tomwatson.typepad.com/tom_watson/2006/06/the_man_who_hea.html#comments

It IS a flat world – with only one degree of separation. Increasingly, having something to say to – or something in common with – someone is all it takes to connect with them – whether they’re “just a regular joe” or one of the world’s greatest rock stars. Pretty cool.