Products vs. Communities
Jonathan Schwarz, then CEO of Sun Microsystems: As will become more obvious by the day, you can compete against a product, but it’s close to impossible to compete against a community.
Events, dear boy…
My diary is starting to fill up a bit with events to attend, and those I have been asked to speak at. Here’s a quick run down. FirePRO Conference – Wednesday 13th October I’ll be speaking to the conference for public relations officers in the Fire and Rescue Services. My session is all about “How … Keep reading
The death of crowd control
James Gardner: The point, of course, is that if the central thinking is that communications are about crowd control, then organisations are really forcing the many-to-many communication outside their organisation. Although I don’t think we are about crowd control at the department, the fact that we don’t have our new communications channels yet has already resulted … Keep reading
Public Sector Online 2010
Tomorrow (that’s Monday, 4th October) I’ll be at The Guardian‘s Public Sector Online conference, which looks like it should be a great day. I’m on at 15:30, for the closing panel titled “Innovation in social media”. Here’s the skinny: As more people use social networking sites to keep informed, and organisations use them to spread … Keep reading
Scheming Virtuously: A Handbook for Public Servants
I love stuff like this. Nick Charney works in government in Canada, and is also a prolific and excellent blogger. He’s also pretty active on GovLoop, which is where I first came across him I think. Anyway, follow his stuff. Nick has just published an ebook called Scheming Virtuously: A Handbook for Public Servants which … Keep reading