We regularly connect with people online. We keep in touch. We make new friends. But can we actually learn anything that’s professionally useful? Is it possible for our online networks, professional or personal, to help us become smarter people and more effective professionals with some level of certain regularity? Instead of stumbling across the occasional jewel, is there a way to come close to a guarantee?
Consider this. Subject matter experts around the world are already using social bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious to gather, screen, categorize and share relevant, insightful content. Prominent bloggers and Twitterers, like Guy Kawasaki, spend hours each day scouring the internet and linking to remarkably valuable content on their blogs and twitter feeds. And some companies are using Yammer to stream relevant news and other materials to employees on their closed internal networks. And let’s not forget powerful news aggregators like Google Reader that can put thousands of information sources at our fingertips and let us search all that content for even the most obscure word or phrase.
What We Need to Nurture: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Bob Feldman
October 26th, 2009
Originally Published PR Week October 2009
If you’re a Tom Friedman fan, you know he doesn’t write much about the world of public relations. But he might as well have in one of his recent columns.
Headlined “The New Untouchables,” Friedman writes that in addition to our banking system needing a “reboot and an upgrade,” so too does our education system.
Against a backdrop of who is getting laid off in this economy and who isn’t, a clear trend seems to have emerged: “Those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work (are) being retained. They are the new ‘untouchables’,” Freidman writes. Those simply waiting for the economy to improve so they can resume their jobs the way they had in the past are the very people apt to be let go. (more…)
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