eCommunications for global organisations

Clay Shirky gives a TED (www.ted.com) 16 minute presentation on how social media changes the dynamics of power and communications because it creates the possibility of masses communicating with masses.  A compelling account of what communicators and politicians everywhere need to understand.

Clay wrote a book called ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations‘ which looks interesting.  His site/blog also contains some more background on his thinking and approach.  He is a consultant to international organisations like Nokia and the BBC and a professor at NYU.

Those were the last words of Seth Godin from a presentation he just made at TED on the power of Tribes.

A great thought provoking presentation from a famous blogger who wrote a free ebook called The Ideavirus which propelled him to hyperfame.

Several things tribes need:

- To challenge the status quo
- To Create a culture (a language that means something to the people in the tribe)
- Curiosity - to learn about what the others know in the tribe
- To connect
- An to commit to the tribe.

Sounds like a good plan. Working on to build the hyperthinker tribe (we have language, a blog, a community). Now we need to get a thousand people to join to get the ball rolling.

Back to wisdom to get back on track…I was very inspired by the first part of Barry Schwartz speech and was ready to write about why big organizations were not wise and why they did not know how and when to make an exception to every rule, with some juicy cases on guideline compliance. I then went through the entire video and just decided not to do so. His message is much more deep and fundamental than whatever I planed to write and there is much more value just passing the idea. Just take a 20 minutes break to hear a truth you and your company might have lost for a while.