• Is Your Organization Fit for Heretics? | Management Innovation eXchange – Why indeed? Because too many people still work in organizations that resemble the IBM of their grandfather's (or great-grandfather's) day–organizations designed to exert tight control at the expense of autonomy, to maximize compliance and conformance over individual expression and discretion, and to promote top-down command over passion-driven performance.
• Gute Gaben 2011 – Die Spreeblick-Geschenketipps – schöne Dinge dabei (schöne Ideen, äh Bücher auch)

• Best Company Values Explanation Ever –
• Business: Community Advocates: Your Secret Weap… | Jive Community – The tactical way in which you locate or engage with your advocates may vary based upon the type of community (employee, customer, product support, etc.), but the principles I’ll describe below can apply to either type of community.

  What are Community Advocates?
  What Advocates Do and Why You Need Them?
  First, advocates can share in Community Work.
  Second, advocates can increase your community reach and word of mouth promotion.
  Third, advocates can be a powerful front line source of end user and member support.
  Fourth, advocates can help you prune and curate community content.
  Finally (although the list could go on!), your community advocates can be a trusted source of user feedback.
  What’s the Bottom Line?

  by Claire Flanagan

• Bildung nach dem digitalen Klimawandel: Das Buch verdunstet in die Wolke – taz.de – Tatsächlich änderte sich dann in den Klassenzimmern aber gar nicht viel. Bis heute blieb es im Prinzip bei dem System, das sich Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zusammen mit der industriell-bürokratischen Organisation herausgebildet hatte: Der Lehrer ist das Medium. Die Schule hat das Wissensmonopol. Wer nicht mitkommt, ist selber schuld.
• BrowserID: A Better Way to Sign In – Connect with BrowserID, the safest & easiest way to sign in.
• sprint.ly – Make beautiful products. –
• Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog) – What if a little site you love doesn't have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn't take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
• Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby – Hyperpolyglot –
• „Gib mir ein Plus – Alle Tipps und Plugins zu Google “ auf karrierebibel.de – Jeden Tag mehr Erfolg! – Logischerweise bevorzugt Google seinen eigenen Chrome-Browser, daher überrascht es nicht, dass es dafür die meisten Google+-Plug-Ins gibt. Die wichtigsten haben wir für sie – alphabetisch geordnet – zusammengestellt.

• The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox Google Plugin – The highest single source of revenue for Linux Mint isn’t the donations, it isn’t ads on the website, it is the default start page in Firefox. This simple search plugin is estimated to generated from 2 to 40 times more money than the start page itself. If this proves to be the case we’ll be in a position to grow and to achieve things we never dreamed off before.
• Praxistauglichkeit von 6 Ansätzen zum Komplexitäts- und Ungewissheitsmanagement | Komplexitätsmanagement – sechs Ansätze des Komplexitäts- und Ungewissheitsmanagements knapp zusammen. Sie zeigen, dass praxistaugliche Ansätze stets über eine Verhaltensänderung gehen. Gutgemeinte Ratschläge, wie sie z.B. in 6 Ways to Master Entrepreneurial Uncertainty feil gehalten werden, sind in der Praxis wenig hilfreich. Nur Reither macht deutlich, dass die Veränderung eingefahrener Verhaltens- und Denkmuster Geduld und Mühe erfordert.

• The Science of Change – The key is that we need to change ourselves. We need to transform, not them. We don’t need to occupy Wall Street, we simply need to occupy Main Street because that is where they occupy us. It is not enough to marvel at our numbers, civil disobedience, and cardboard signs. We need a Science of change so that we can do so.
• steve jobs and the no @$$hole rule – Bottom line: I still believe in Sutton’s rule, but Jobs was exceptional. Almost no one had his deep knowledge of the high tech business or such an acute sense of style and design. Few can build an organization tailored to their personality. Most @$$holes will never be in Jobs’ league and will merely make our lives miserable. Long live the no @$$hole rule!
• live.hackr : Reader- – die gesamte dontdoevil-narration ist natürlich so viel wert wie klopapier, wenn sie sich mit facebook – und also das erste mal mit einem echten herausforderer – konfrontiert in einen moron verwandeln, der seine infomonopolistischen marktmacht ohne rücksicht auf verluste (auf seiten der user, wohin sollen sie den gehen, muhaha) ausnützt, um dem eigenen hoffnungsträger g+ ein gewisses momentum zu verleihen; wobei sie das alleine natürlich nicht evil macht, aber – wie diplix schön sagt – billig, schlampig und doof.
• Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? – >* – Fantastic post that articulates all my views on the matter better than I could ahve. I was looking forward to G+ integration and was appalled to find they just ripped my friends' shares out completely.
  The red subscribe button is hilarious in comparison to the rest of the monochrome scheme.
  I just hope they're soaking up feedback and prepared to move quickly on it
• Warum Sharing nun schlechter ist und wie man Vieles besser machen könnte | Google Reader schlanker und plussiger | News-Foren – Das für mich dominanteste Beispiel: Ich konnte bislang sehr bequem
  einigen Leuten *im Reader* folgen, ohne deren sonstige (für mich
  größtenteil irrelevanten) G+ Posts lesen zu müssen.

  Nun muss ich mir die für mich interessanten Teile aus deren weitaus
  umfangreicheren G+ Streams herausfiltern. Das ist mir persönlich zu
  zeitraubend und blöd.

  Ich verzichte nun komplett auf das Sharing und das Konsumieren von
  gesharten Inhalten.

• Unklartext – Das Schmidt-Steinbrück-Buch hält nicht, was der Hype verspricht. Anja Höfer im Gespräch mit Reinhard Hübsch. SWR2 Journal am Morgen vom 27.10.2011
• Kuchen für Alle! – Wir sind die 90%
• More Than Facebook: The Time Is Right For Social Business – Forbes – What’s keeping other companies from following their lead? Many executives recognize that social media is powerful, even if they still wonder in the back of their minds whether it’s just a time sink. Yet, even when they decide that there is potential, these execs get hung up on trying to figure how to apply social technologies to their companies, how to engage and empower their employees to participate.

  Here’s the trick with social business: Focus on people and culture.

• The Connected Company: Environment and Organization Come First « Dachis Group Collaboratory – Technology solutions will be applied to management challenges in time. Market forces make it nearly inevitable.  It remains to be seen if they’ll be effective without management interventions that consider the culture and human side of the equation.  It’s important to allow for new roles and ways of thinking to grow organically within an organization as a foundation for this transition.

  Our collaborative discovery sessions with clients reveal patterns to the environmental needs of major organizations. We’ve found that is helpful to share with clients a list of socially calibrated attributes that may prompt internal evaluation and change.

  How does your organization compare with this list? Are you ready to make a transition to managing a socially calibrated organization?

• Moving the Economy: The Future of the Maker Movement – Forbes – I’m motivated and moved by the idea, the belief – that the people who invent and build and make things have the power to change the world. People who “remix” something or hack a better way.
• Mobile Proliferation Killed Linux Hopes For World Domination | Forrester Blogs – _Analyst_ writes about things he doesn't understand. Sigh.
• SparkleShare: Webinterface für das Repository… und ein Fazit – Nachdem ich mich nun im Zuge meiner Blog-Artikel eine Zeit lang mit SparkleShare beschäftigt habe, möchte ich nun zum Schluss der Serie ein kleines Fazit dazu ziehen
• „Halloween – Warum verkleiden, wenn im Büro genug Horrortypen lauern?" – eine Typologie aus dem Gruselkabinett der schlimmsten Großraumvampire, Bürozombies und Schreibtischplagegeister
• Lokaltermin: Was darf es sein, Ernst Greten?: Management – impulse – Das Erstlingswerk des weltberühmten Architekten und Bauhaus-Gründers Walter Gropius. Dessen Glasfassade mit den durchsichtigen Gebäudeecken das sachliche, internationale Bauen vorwegnahm. Ein Schlüsselbau der Moderne.
• The cure for corporate inertia | opensource.com – Why are management processes the last bastion of resistance when a company is trying to change? I think there are three linked reasons.

  Management processes are a long way from the action. They support primary value-adding activities, but are often two or three steps removed from the marketplace, so feedback from customers about the need to work differently or more quickly is filtered and lost.
  There are strong vested interests at play. Board members like to offer advice and make decisions, lawyers like writing contracts. Turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving. Enough said.
  Management processes are usually dependent on each other, and together they create a tightly-woven matrix that cannot easily be pulled apart. If you try to change one process, you upset a further two or three others, and pretty soon you are taking on the entire system.

• 10 ways to craft a career that will stand the test of time | opensource.com – five forces that will shape work and careers:

  ever greater globalization of innovation and talent;
  the development of ever more sophisticated connective technologies;
  profound changes in demography and longevity which will see many live until they are 100 and others live in regions where 40% of the population are over 50;
  broad societal forces that will see trust in institutions decrease and families become ever more re-arranged; and finally,
  the impact that carbon use and Co2 will have on how we think about our own consumption patterns.
  Taking this rich cocktail of forces into consideration here are my 10 tips about skills, networks and choices.

• Post-Privacy-Buch: “Fesselt die Datenschützer!” | ctrl+verlust – Hellers Buch ist ein kompletter Gegenentwurf zum Privatsphären- und Datenschutzdenken in Deutschland. Seine Argumente treffen das Grundverständnis vieler unserer Werte und Erzählungen ins Mark. Erfreulicher Weise wird Heller bei aller Radikalität nie eifernd, sondern bleibt immer nüchtern und sachlich.
• ETH Zurich Multimedia Portal: video, audio, podcast, webcast, live-streaming – Richard Stallman – Richard Stallman, A free digital society … über 2h Vortrag an der ETH Zürich

Congratulations and good luck …

[he] turns his attention to how Web 2.0 trends are creating new challenges for the publishing industry

by Clay Shirky is an “examination of how the wildfire-like spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill”

It’s about how the tools of the web enable people to organize without formality, but doesn’t stop there but includes ideas about how organizations might use community tools like social software to build stronger customer relations, communities of practice and more

Some take-aways, all highlighting by me:

You can think of group undertaking as a kind of ladder of activities, activities that are enabled or improved by social tools. The rungs on the ladder, in order of difficulty, are sharing, cooperation, and collective action …

Hmm, ladders everywhere – nice metaphor but somehow flawed: We don’t leave the rungs when we step up, we just build upon them.

Anyway, looks interesting. Check out the mp3 of a discussion with Brian Eno and Clay Shirky (there are also some video snippets). Here’s the blurb of this recent evening at ICA:

Everywhere we look, it seems, companies and organisations are trying to harness the alleged wisdom of crowds – the power of groups of people to come together through the internet and share with one another, work together, or take some kind of collective public action. One of the world’s leading experts on social and technological networking, Clay Shirky, Professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations, comes to the ICA to talk about how the idea of networks, and particularly online social networks, is changing everything around us.

Experientia has collected more stuff:

- Book site
- Review by Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing
- Review by Helen Walters and Matt Vella in Business Week
- Interview with author by The Guardian newspaper

There’s another interview with him, conducted by Jon Lebkowsky at the World Changing site, talking about different media uses and preferences of people:

[Shirky:] Here is my hypothesis: that one of the things that people create some kind of really deep mental model for is modes of communication. People my age and older have a very good sense of when to call someone on the phone, and when to send them a personal letter, and when to go see them. But we don’t have such a good sense of when to email them, or IM them, or Twitter or what have you, because all of that stuff was invented after we had already solidified our sense of the media landscape. All of those things are still new.

And here’s a video of Clay Shirky discussing HCE, found at the Berkman Center, uploaded by Robert to Sevenload for easy embedding:

And there’s also David Weinberger who was live blogging Shirky’s book presentation at Harvard, extracting the key points about group forming, collaboration and the effects of social software:

[...] Now we’re seeing a set of tools that make it easier to create large groups: Ridiculously easy group forming. E.g., email unexpectedly became the dominant service used on the original Internet. That was because of the “reply all” button, a social feature.

But there’s been an enormous social lag. This tech has not transformed society as rapidly as it might. That’s because groups are innately conservative. No one wants a protocol that shuts out group members. It needed to become ubiquitous and boring. That’s when the social effects become interesting.

Well, yes, while we’re not there yet we’ll be there in no time. Now back to Twittering.