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Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweetgreat questions Jeff
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweetcongrats on another great event - way to close out the year folks! enjoy your holidays :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOlivier - there is a need for certification - it just needs to be done right by a 3rd party that is not just a certification machine, though there have been many of those that are quite legitimate industry standards bearers over the years. I have been studying how to approach this for a while with regards to historical elements from guilds and also modern organizations. First up for us though is to build the network (which we have done) and then to reinforce it with a bit more infrastructure (what we are doing during Q1 next year) and then we can have an honest conversation about what aspects of social media skills can be certified and what aspects of creative douchebagery should not be. There are some things like ethics, writing for blogs/twitter, appropriate social engagement with customers, monitoring configuration, and legal issues where having a test and having someone maintain current knowledge in these areas via a certification program makes sense. But to the point made above by someone else, there is a need for many areas of certification not just one...We have been approached by many people who offer social media certification programs over the past couple years - we still haven't found one that we were enthusiastic about endorsing. We were never approached by this group though.I think this matter of professional certification will get resolved properly and professionally in 2010 and I hope our global membership will be key contributors to the solution.Susan - I dont know if what this other group is doing is right or wrong, good or bad - we would have to evaluate it fairly - I think too many people who learned the ropes from worldly experience are too quick to dismiss formalized education programs on the face of it (just as too many academics dismiss real world experience) Take a closer look at the substance of the program before throwing it out and casting aspersions on it.From a quick glance at the site about the benefits, it seems they offer pro members (300 per year on top of the certification costs) access to free weekly webinars, so I would hope this is what Olivier was being invited to do (if that was a teacher position request I would be really concerned).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOlivier – there is a need for certification – it just needs to be done right by a 3rd party that is not just a certification machine, though there have been many of those that are quite legitimate industry standards bearers over the years. I have been studying how to approach this for a while with regards to historical elements from guilds and also modern organizations.
First up for us though is to build the network (which we have done) and then to reinforce it with a bit more infrastructure (what we are doing during Q1 next year) and then we can have an honest conversation about what aspects of social media skills can be certified and what aspects of creative douchebagery should not be. There are some things like ethics, writing for blogs/twitter, appropriate social engagement with customers, monitoring configuration, and legal issues where having a test and having someone maintain current knowledge in these areas via a certification program makes sense. But to the point made above by someone else, there is a need for many areas of certification not just one…
We have been approached by many people who offer social media certification programs over the past couple years – we still haven’t found one that we were enthusiastic about endorsing. We were never approached by this group though.
I think this matter of professional certification will get resolved properly and professionally in 2010 and I hope our global membership will be key contributors to the solution.
Susan – I dont know if what this other group is doing is right or wrong, good or bad – we would have to evaluate it fairly – I think too many people who learned the ropes from worldly experience are too quick to dismiss formalized education programs on the face of it (just as too many academics dismiss real world experience) Take a closer look at the substance of the program before throwing it out and casting aspersions on it.
From a quick glance at the site about the benefits, it seems they offer pro members (300 per year on top of the certification costs) access to free weekly webinars, so I would hope this is what Olivier was being invited to do (if that was a teacher position request I would be really concerned).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThanks SusanSMCEDU not so much about certification as it is workforce preparedness and media literacy. I have a $60,000 piece of paper in my storage unit somewhere too, doesnt tell you much really about me - well, maybe the inter-disciplinary bit is somewhat instructive, but not really.We are leveraging our somewhat global (SMC groups in Africa now as well as Australia, Europe, Asia, Mexico and US) network to create relationships between our local chapters and local universities to help bring better social media education to schools - the continuing education and professional education areas are a bit different territory really that are outside the scope of SMCEDU.We started by inviting participation from local folks and now have small 'pilot' initiatives underway in DC, Richmond, VA, Stockholm and Australia. This really means some good people are trying to find ways to do more with local schools though Richmond, VA and Stockholm are doing some really cool things already. So its still really nascent, but we are fortunate to have a passionate smart hard working project manager/blogger pushing things forward in Yong C Lee and a clearly social mission.Early on I reached out to Howard Rheingold to make sure we would be including his http://socialmediaclassroom.com/ initiative. We are also working to support and be interconnected with other existing efforts like Classroom 2.0 which has a terrific community.While SMCEDU has education and training elements to it, and we hope to be creating an open courseware that is peer reviewed and field tested, we are really more focused on strengthening the connections between the different sectors of society, in this case, the professional and the academic.That said, it is open to become other things and will as more smart people contribute to it like Steve Raddick from Booz Allen Hamilton has along with his colleagues who really lit a fire under my butt to at least get things in motion.If you are interested in this, please do come join the Ning community and help out. If you are a teacher and want to connect with some local professionals to come in and guest lecture, look for a local social media club chapter near you and reach out and say hi.Next year we have plans to make the program more formalized and hire some staff - looking for some grants from foundations if you know of any :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweetdirect download from whatever web site is hosting video to the real player sp software
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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAs I have been saying for the past decade, the key to success in the knowledge economy is the ability of smart people to work together. In coming to know Peter over the last several years, and working with him on a few stealthy projects thus far, I am really excited to contribute the growth of iStrategy Labs.
Peter, Joe, DJ, Zvi, Zack et al have done a terrific job thus far in getting iStrategy Labs over the proverbial startup ‘hump’. I look forward to conquering many more hills together.
Whether in the lab, online or in the field, this is going to be a fun time creating meaningful impact together.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAs I have been saying for the past decade, the key to success in the knowledge economy is the ability of smart people to work together. In coming to know Peter over the last several years, and working with him on a few stealthy projects thus far, I am really excited to contribute the growth of iStrategy Labs.
Peter, Joe, DJ, Zvi, Zack et al have done a terrific job thus far in getting iStrategy Labs over the proverbial startup ‘hump’. I look forward to conquering many more hills together.
Whether in the lab, online or in the field, this is going to be a fun time creating meaningful impact together.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweettold you…
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweetnamaste Catherine, soon enough
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweetthanks so much for sharing Karen - been on the 'we are all one' for a long time. in fact, was trying at one point to reach out to BamaWorks to see if we could do something around DMB's One Sweet World about a year before Bono did it with the red campaign.. nuther thing I was afraid to pursue as it seemed to big for me…
but those times are over, the world is too messed up to not be brave and bold and do whatever is necessary to heal the world
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweetthanks Keane - I agree, our true nature can only be beautiful when revealed in honesty and bathed in love
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetYinka - no worries now - right now we are working on pilot projects
Ultimately, it will be a program available to local groups to particiapte as they feel appropriate
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetFIRST! (just kidding)
quick clarification, its not a rumor that the government asked twitter to not do its scheduled maintenance – the guy who invited Ev on that Internet trip to Iraq (where they became friendly) called him up and asked twitter to postpone their scheduled upgrade/maintenance etc… public info and confirmed
more importantly, conspiracy theory is right… apparently, Obama is not only trying to kill your grandma, he’s trying to kill your buzz and kill your social networking – is there anything he wont destroy in the next few years?
C’mon Andy, I expect better from you then this sort of fear mongering – you are really stretching these proof points, especially to include the fact that government agencies and NGO’s have become as fascinated by twitter as everyone else – please remember, the people in charge of those groups are human too and are allowed to have the same sort of excitement you and I both had a few years ago… as old timers, we forget that euphoria that overtook us when we ‘got’ twitter
that said, if this were a different era, Twitter may have become the next gen SMS at the core of the carriers infrastructure instead of a standalone service, it still might become that eventually, but its not because Obama is out to get you
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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetMichelle - am trying to grapple with a few inter-related notions in this post and the comments but before doing so, here is my take on friendfeed pre and post FB acquisition.
Last time I engaged in a conversation on FriendFeed, some of Scoble’s trolled trashed me for not being a more active member of FF - it certainly does have certain elements of slashdot, but not the good ones… The amount of information presented, in no other context then the stream itself, or a particular group’s streams was just too much - needs smarter filters, which I was just beginning to see coming to fruition. We loved the friendfeed room idea early, which is much superior to a mailing list for group sharing in an intentional community sort of way.
Post FB acqusition, I just see this functionality being integrated into the news feed function that is there already, but I bet the dev team will come up with some really smart new aspects of the UX that will make it simpler to use and more compelling. My bet, based on early statements about the future of FF site is that it will be mothballed in the next 2-3 quarters, though I would hope they dont.
You are right to be thinking about connecting across platforms, this is something we have been talking about for a while, and was one of the reasons we didnt choose a single platform for Social Media Club, but rather allowed local chapters to choose what would work best for them. Now… we have a slight problem with this fractured community structure we are trying to solve.
But you know what, no matter the solution, whether it is one of the emerging #hashtag conversation aggregators or a nextgen RSS reader or FF or FB or even Echo from JS-Kit which will hopefully solve the problem Sally mentions about cross-posting one day soon, people will still be separated by their choice of technology.
Its about where people focus their attention that ultimately matters, where they call home, what sort of people they like talking to and established relationships - this contextual relevance is key. Yes, new technologies are being created to span traditional web site walled gardens, but some people are comfortable in those gardens… I am most hopeful in this area that we get a way to connect the dots across these areas in search, and Google and many others will be leading this charge over the next year, but most people dont stay engaged in conversations via search, its a different user behaviour model… it may lead to conversation, but that’s secondary to information retrieval in search activities.
As for privacy issues, this is a bigger problem that FB is already facing and has not resovled yet…