I know that the title reminds McLuhan and others- older even than me (at least, considering my biological age).
Anyway, often I see a misalignment between the channels available- and their use.
Posts Tagged ‘social’
Metacommunication: on signals and structure
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010Tags: channel, communication, engineering, meta, signals, social, structure
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Ethical mind hacking
Friday, September 24th, 2010It is Friday, so this is a slightly longer article: as for the title, jump to the last section, or wait a couple of thousands of words.
The purpose? Describing through practical cases how writing could be used to improve the learning experience- and, on the flip side, how writing could actually obfuscate information, while formally releasing everything that is required.
The principle being: first, observe; then, judge- if you do the other way around, you risk a selective observation, and to focus only on what you already saw before, ignoring new possibilities.
This is a side-effect of acting based on experience (i.e. patterns): if the communication is structured around what sounds familiar to you, you can be easily mislead into ignoring information relevant to your decision.
Tags: communication, engineering, ethical, hacking, influence, mind, social
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Change2010_02: Greening the economy and CSR
Friday, September 17th, 2010Over the years, the legal framework protecting consumers evolved, potentially giving to any consumer the same rights- but, of course, I, as an individual, cannot (usually) afford to pay lobbyists and other “consensus shapers”; and the “greening” of the economy is almost becoming yet another marketing opportunity.
I will not repeat what I already presented in Consumer 3.0, on how we gradually shifted from a passive consumer, receiving what was on the menu (1.0), to one choosing from a limited set of options (2.0), to influencing what is actually available in the kitchen.
Tags: Change2010, consumer, corporate, crowdsourcing, economy, green, responsibility, social
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Equal opportunity elections
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Anybody can be elected.
But, once elected, does anybody receive the information and training to make informed decisions?
Some simple considerations on how to improve the “intellectual immune system” of our elected officials.
Tags: borges, election, filter, group, interest, internet, numeracy, official, paulos, politics, scientist, social, technology, training
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(dis)integrating corporate communication
Monday, July 13th, 2009Do you know what is outsourcing? If not, have a look on wikipedia.
But if you do: when and how do you define what to outsource?
You can search on this blog, and you will find plenty of articles where I discussed various issues related to downsizing and outsourcing, both on the business and corporate culture side.
this article is focused on something else, that is visible in my CV, but even more in my pre-banking (i.e. pre-1987) and non-profit activities.
If you have no time: go for the conclusions 
Tags: corporate, culture, identity, networking, non-profit, online, outsourcing, service announces, social, software
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100th post! signposts for XXI century visibility- a directory
Sunday, May 31st, 2009Well, it started in February, and now it reached 100 postings. And 150 twitter postings (between @robertolofaro and @aleph123).
As you know, this is a knowledge-sharing platform, not the usual 2-minutes-a-post blog.
This post is something slightly different- and it is also an announce.
This Summer, I will publish an updated version of my work on the introduction of new media and technologies in business processes, including both profit and non-profit/government/institutions.
Meanwhile, to celebrate the 100th post on this blog, I enclose a “virtual library” of references: books, links, short advice.
Enjoy! And post any comments via direct messages to my twitter @robertolofaro
Tags: 100, announce, book, directory, network, publish, social, virtual
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Social networking: first book
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009I am glad to announce that my customer officially released the book I contributed to via my company PartnershipIncubator.Com.
The contribution was a concept on social networking online in marketing, extracted from research prepared over the last few years.
The book has been focused on “digital natives”, and you can order online online your own (free) copy
But being part of their book was only the first (sideline) step toward completing the publishing plan.
Tags: authority, book, first, local, lotus, network, networking, notes, online, political, publish, social
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instant gratification politics
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009If you have been following my blog for some time, you know that I am relatively old (born in 1965), and that I saw since my childhood political campaigns- before being part of my first ones as a teenager.
And now, we are moving from long-run politics, to a new model.
Instant gratification politics.
Tags: campaign, democracy, donate, gratification, instant, network, obama, political, politics, social
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A brave new (virtual) world
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009this document is just an introduction to the subject, and therefore it is in a “bullet list” format, with a main issue introducing each bullet list.
it was presented on 2008-09-28 (WGAW Registered) as a proposal for concept for a chapter on “social networking: security issues”, as part of a wider book on “network security”, but eventually I had to withdraw from consideration my concept.
my original material is published here, with some limited changes, due to the evolution of the subject, and to make this posting as self-contained as possible.
Tags: attention, brave, century, network, new, online, security, social, span, virtual, world, xxi
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Gated communities
Monday, March 23rd, 2009My American friends will certainly assume that I am referring to locations like, say, those towns that allow only residents above 50 years of age.
And this is a partially correct assumption.
Without knowing, you too belong to probably more than one “gated community”.
Tags: communities, community, draugiem, facebook, gated, ibm, lotus, meetup, method, network, notes, social, virtual, xxi, youtube
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