How to Develop your Brand & Community Strategy
insights on developing brand, culture and community strategy
Expand My Brand Social Tech Competition: Win $30K in Startup Assets
Have an early stage social technology startup and proximity to New York City? (and a tolerance for very short notice!) Check out the ‘EXPANDMYBRAND’ Startup Challenge, a competition bringing together top brands with emerging marketing technology startups. The event, hosted by EDGE Collective, is happening next week on September 27th. From the website: “5 lucky [...]
On Memes, Manifestos & Movements: A Reflection from CULTUREcon
Last week was spent in Philadelphia and Boston, attending the Agile CULTUREcon organized by André Dhondt and Dan Mezick of the Agile community. Dan materialized in my twitter feed earlier this year, having noticed my interest in exploring the edges of _<insert discipline here>__, and has been generously exposing me to people and events focused [...]
Culture Hack: Collaborating with Strangers
below is an entry for the CultureCon Contest by Sebastien Paquet – The culture hacking story I want to share with you is almost ten years old now. Back then I was a Ph.D. student in Computer Science with a deep interest in social software. I was posting to my blog daily, and building a [...]
Twitter Poll: What is Leadership?
I’ve been curious lately about what leadership means… or about what people think leadership means these days. Specifically in terms of the new world of work, of self-organizing systems, of self-interested autonomous agents collaborating towards common goals. What are the traits and characteristics of authentic leaders? How does their behavior influence/inspire others? I sent out [...]
Why the World Need Hackers Now: The Link Between Open Source Development & Cultural Evolution
I’ve been brushing up on the work of Eric S. Raymond, an open source software advocate and author of ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar,’ in preparation for meeting and interviewing him at next week’s Culture Conference in Philly and Boston. Raymond has written extensively about the attitudes and ethos of hackers, the mechanisms of open-source [...]
Ladies Only! Women’s Wisdom Retreat 2012
Bringing our gifts to the world in the year of limitless potential All around us, many systems are now in collapse; global economic, educational, financial, corporate, and natural. We are in a great transition, and we are being called to live differently. Do you experience a sense that the world “outside” is not in alignment [...]
Video: Emerging Leader Labs Wrap-up
The 6-week seed project for the Emerging Leader Labs has now come to a close. Above is the final video in a series produced by participant Ben Brownell, providing a glimpse into the happenings on Open House day, where the local community in Chatham was invited to ELL to find out what the initiative [...]
CultureCon Contest: What Culture Hacks are Transforming Your Workplace?
With only a week until the Culture Conference in Boston, I want to offer up two free tickets to those with inspiring stories about how they are shifting the dynamics of their workplace. The theme for CultureCon this year is “Freedom at Work.” It’s based on the notion that we are transitioning into a world [...]