What are the "must read's" on Social Media and/or Government 2.0?
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Permalink Reply by Lovisa Williams on -
I would recommend the best way to start is to read The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman and Groundswell by Charlene Lei and Josh Bernoff. I think these are both good ways to get started in social media and understand some of fundamentals on how and why. The video that I find really helps people understand what Web 2.0 is, is Shift Happens . I have this as required viewing before you can attend my Social Media 101, Social Networking 101 or Web 2.0 Fundamentals briefings. I actually have an annual list of recommended and required reading that I publish on my internal blog to help people learn more about social media and it's use. There are a million other good sources of information, but at a minimum this is a good place to start. I'm sure others will have some additional input....
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Sutch on -
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us is another good video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Care to share your reading list that you publish on your internal blog?
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Permalink Reply by Guy Gordon on -
Fantastic video- thanks for the reference
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Permalink Reply by Melissa Merrell on -
Hi Lovisa - I'm interested in watching the Shift Happens video you recommend...do you have a link for it?
Thanks, Melissa
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Permalink Reply by GovLoop on -
Cluetrain Manifesto, Wikinomics, Groundswell, Here Comes Everybody, NAPA Collaboration Project, Drapeau's Mashable columns, and of course GovLoop :)
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Permalink Reply by Adriel Hampton on -
The Future of Work - not gov-specific, but applies. Someone here recommended it - incredible book on the effect of lowered communication costs in large orgs.
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Permalink Reply by Denise Hill on -
Based on these responses, I have a lot of reading in front of me.
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Permalink Reply by Brett Husbands on
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Additional to the ones here I would also go for
Books: Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. the Big Switch by Nicholas Carr
Blogs: RoughType, ReadWriteWeb, web20blog, Headshift, ConfusedofCalcutta, (plus many of the twitterers from the below spreadsheet)
Twitter: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pdLhBVPD_l1fdLLxAmoTHCg (btw Twitter does not make sense until you follow a lot of interesting people)
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Sutch on
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Everything is Miscellaneous is an excellent read!
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Permalink Reply by Mike Durst on -
So many.... but it's really interesting to see what others think seminal...
Here's a short list of recent reads (all books) I found to be very thought provoking:
1. The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen
2. The Art of Victory by Gregory R. Copley
3. Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
4. Group Genius by Keith Sawyer
5. Blink (and Tipping Point too) by Malcolm Gladwell
6. Hesselbein on Leadership by Frances Hesselbein
7. Bad Leadership by Barbara Kellerman
8. The Art of Orginal Thinking by Jan Phillips
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Permalink Reply by Ameet Doshi on -
"Bad Leadership" is a great book ~ its good to know what not to do...
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Permalink Reply by Naomi A. Williams on -
I'll have to check out "Bad Leadership".
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