Comments on: Hot, Flat and Shrouded http://www.washingtonlife.com/2009/07/24/hot-flat-and-shrouded/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: I’m On A Boat (With A Social Media Handbook) | Publicyte http://www.washingtonlife.com/2009/07/24/hot-flat-and-shrouded/comment-page-1/#comment-23834 I’m On A Boat (With A Social Media Handbook) | Publicyte Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:47:44 +0000 http://www.washingtonlife.com/?p=4899#comment-23834 [...] 2.0 ultimately so exciting. Something like Crisis Camp Haiti was incredibly significant. The use of social media to publicize the Iranian elections and other global issues is significant in a different way. There are other useful examples of [...] [...] 2.0 ultimately so exciting. Something like Crisis Camp Haiti was incredibly significant. The use of social media to publicize the Iranian elections and other global issues is significant in a different way. There are other useful examples of [...]

]]> By: Michael Russell - @planetrussell http://www.washingtonlife.com/2009/07/24/hot-flat-and-shrouded/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Michael Russell - @planetrussell Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:43:17 +0000 http://www.washingtonlife.com/?p=4899#comment-154 Fine analysis. You've identified the exact confluence of factors that pioneering, early social media theorist and unintentional mentor Howard Rheingold described as a "merger of knowledge capital, social capital and communion." It's these factors - rather than some radically novel or disruptive (yet widely available) technology that make possible the sort of collective action (and even emergent group behaviors) that Clay Shirky and others have suggested are, in effect, the ultimate manifestation of virtual social collaboration. Just as we discussed at our Government 2.0 Camp panel back in March, whether it's the guy in Antananarivo Madagascar you referenced (who used Twitter to get the word out that the government there *wasn't* being overthrown), or Colombian Oscar Morales, whom I referenced, using Facebook to create the 1 Million Voices Against the FARC movement, (which has since inspired any number of other democracy movements around the world), governments who ignore the geopolitical impact of social technologies as instruments of soft power do so at their peril. Fine analysis. You’ve identified the exact confluence of factors that pioneering, early social media theorist and unintentional mentor Howard Rheingold described as a “merger of knowledge capital, social capital and communion.”

It’s these factors – rather than some radically novel or disruptive (yet widely available) technology that make possible the sort of collective action (and even emergent group behaviors) that Clay Shirky and others have suggested are, in effect, the ultimate manifestation of virtual social collaboration.

Just as we discussed at our Government 2.0 Camp panel back in March, whether it’s the guy in Antananarivo Madagascar you referenced (who used Twitter to get the word out that the government there *wasn’t* being overthrown), or Colombian Oscar Morales, whom I referenced, using Facebook to create the 1 Million Voices Against the FARC movement, (which has since inspired any number of other democracy movements around the world), governments who ignore the geopolitical impact of social technologies as instruments of soft power do so at their peril.

]]> By: Joel Amoussou http://www.washingtonlife.com/2009/07/24/hot-flat-and-shrouded/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Joel Amoussou Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:37:50 +0000 http://www.washingtonlife.com/?p=4899#comment-151 I’ve written about combining sensor data with social data using semantic web technologies in order to extract better intelligence http://efasoft.blogspot.com/2009/07/semantic-social-computing.html I’ve written about combining sensor data with social data using semantic web technologies in order to extract better intelligence http://efasoft.blogspot.com/2009/07/semantic-social-computing.html

]]> By: Excellent Piece by Mark Drapeau in Washington Life Magazine | Strategic Social http://www.washingtonlife.com/2009/07/24/hot-flat-and-shrouded/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Excellent Piece by Mark Drapeau in Washington Life Magazine | Strategic Social Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:57:44 +0000 http://www.washingtonlife.com/?p=4899#comment-150 [...] Advisor and Research Fellow at the National Defense University, has written a fantastic article in Washington Life called Hot, Flat and Shrouded. In it, Drapeau focuses on the rise of social media and its ability [...] [...] Advisor and Research Fellow at the National Defense University, has written a fantastic article in Washington Life called Hot, Flat and Shrouded. In it, Drapeau focuses on the rise of social media and its ability [...]

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