I really really love this slide deck by Tim Stock of scenarioDNA. The book I’m currently writing with Jamie Notter has a lot of similar themes. I can’t say much more about it right now, but I’d love you to click through this and see what you think. BONUS :  Here’s a really interesting interview along the same lines: Social media design should start with human behavior. Culture Mapping, managing brands in a social economy. View more presentations from Tim Stock MORE >>

Here are links and handouts for two of my recent speaking opportunities. used the same bones of the presentation though one is geared to businesses and the other is geared to volunteers and nonprofit organizations. Both are targeted to the newbies who are thinking about social media use. am offering them both in this one post. Please enjoy all the links! All links open in a new window. General Information: My presentation to Hawaiian Telcom University. My presentation to the Network of Volunteer Leaders. The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide (PDF). ROI Examples for Nonprofits. Listen. MORE >>

As more and more organization chase social media as a channel to engage consumers for a result the more they will learn that consumers have a different result in mind. Results, the holy grail of management by objectives, is what many try to create and measure as justification for use of social media. Every business is motivated to produce results but most business fail to understand what produces results. The same applies to understanding what results social media produces. The trouble is that chasing results actually can produce the wrong result. Challenge, mastery and making a contribution”. MORE >>

Brian Meeks has delusions of novelist, which he feeds by writing the Henry Wood Detective series (Available soon and on his blahg ). The pen is mightier than the sword”. Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1839  from ‘Richelieu’. If this is true, and I believe it is, then the combination of the keyboard (21 st century pen) when combined with tweeting, would kick Edward’s pen’s ass. Sure there will be skeptics.  I get that. There is a sport, which is known by some, but perfected by few. speak, of course, of #fakehashtaggery. Does anybody use Twitter for tweeting anymore? digress. Oh don’t try to play dumb. MORE >>

This is part one in a multi-part series on how the federal government is implementing Enterprise 2.0. This was done through extensive interviews with Booz Allen Hamilton who has led many of the efforts for various Government agencies. The full series on Enterprise 2.0 for the Federal Government (which includes additional information and specific examples) can be downloaded (registration required) for free. The Federal government is being asked to do much more with less. In general, organizations are not as free to spend money as they were in years past. The speed of these new E2.0 Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>