How pathmakers challenge existing structure through the use of flexible networks and social weaving.
Or, what to *really* do with Twitter, LinkedIn, and your blog.
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Networked social media provide infrastructure that allows information
to flow far and wide. Politicians, celebrities, and corporations are
jumping in with the hopes that they can get their message out.
Sometimes messages do get widespread attention, but people complain
that these are the "wrong" messages - the inaccurate, the humiliating,
the saccharine.
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Keynote by Baratunde Thurston, conscious comic & vigilante pundit, Co-Founder, Jack & Jill Politics, Web Editor, The Onion and Host, Popular Science's Future Of.
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Google Wave is one of the most ambitious product launches of 2009. It's also the one most likely to make you say, "I don't get it." Wave's hyped elevator pitch is that it reinvents email for the modern web, but that's an oversimplification. Wave combines document
collaboration and instant messaging into a single workspace, whose live moving cursors and non-linear nature can melt brains.
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What do storytelling, twitter, social media, public speaking, your hidden
desires, Cool Hand Luke and big events like Web 2.0 Expo have in common?
Bestselling author Scott Berkun will share some provocative and inspiring
secrets that connect all these disparate ideas, and more, together, pulled
from his new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker.
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Nine hundred and forty-eight dollars. That's the annual dollar value of each person in your email contact at work, according to a novel IBM Research study with researchers in MIT Sloan Management School. Those with strong links to a manager produced an average of $588 of revenue per month over the norm. Economists and computer scientists are showing how social network helps you more successful.
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We all use cloud computing, we just don’t call it that. It is Yahoo mail. Gmail. Hotmail. Facebook. It is in our personal lives in many different ways. But until now it is not really in the business world in a big way. Yousef Khalidi will share his work to change this. A Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft will talk of where Microsoft is heading, and how we can harness it in many ways.
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Just as early computer interfaces were complicated and non-intuitive, most Web 2.0 tools today are socially awkward. The added complexity of designing not only for the human-to-computer interaction but also for human-to-human interaction is a real challenge.
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