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Facebook IPO how Social Media disrupts the economy!

Facebook IPO is out there and is real! It shows that Software, the Digital and the Social Media industry as a whole are eating / replacing the economy / disrupting it. And although it seems crazy I believe it is also good news, not just because of Facebook in itself but because of what it represents, the digital world industry and all the economy. The advent of Facebook is the emergence of new digital open data, a somehow new economy. If Facebook keep they user base happy they are well positioned Read more […]

Richard Brandson, Steve Jobs Capitalism and Creating Value

The truth about business, entrepreneurship or any form of organised activity is not about simply profit, it is about creating value. The creation of Value is the ultimate goal for any venture, company, business model and even government or politic party whatever its dimension, location or strategy. Recently Richard Branson an entrepreneur known for its eccentricity and smart way of managing an ever evolving disruptive brand said: “Capitalism has “lost its way” and financial profit should no longer Read more […]

Money, Wealth, Social Media and Gamification

There is a Shift between Money, Co-creation, Social Media and Gamification We are in a historical paradox crossroad for humanity. It is thus a frightening time for the world finances and economics where at the same time the concept of money is pushed further through the advent of social media, co-creation, the social graph and concepts such as Gamification that are taking over of reality and creating a kind of twilight zone. On one hand there is extreme poverty mixed with extreme wealth, the advent Read more […]

How to design a Vision

How to design a Vision? You design a vision with  inspiration, change and Share! The right design of a vision can only be done through an emergence of re-designing the way we think and act! And yes the way we share! The concept of vision is very personal and can drive people to achieve great things and execute massive actions. A clear Vision can deliver a way to inspiration and with the right measure of passion one can indeed reach a lot. But this can only be done through a strong design. A Read more […]

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19 Top Social Media Digital Authors and Metrics

19 Top social media digital authors and metrics, the reinvention of the authorship concept and social reach! Social Media is there and with it new disruption and new trends. Social Media is expanding and redefining the concept of author, the creator and of course the meaning of authorship and copyright. This post is a reflection of what makes a top social media digital author and what are the best metrics to define it. Also this post is a selection of authors that somehow are the key influences in Read more […]

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7 books on Social Media, Tech, Society related to read

7 Top Social Media, Tech, Society related books in my list! The corridors of knowledge are always being populated by different evolution and trends passing by. Society with the advent of Social Media is going through a huge revolution but this is not something new. There has been an evolution and we are at this stage thanks to a lot of research, technological and social changes that have been there for long time, evolving. In a time of attention spam and where all of us read shorter and shorter, Read more […]

Globalisation, Social Media Terra Incognita Web

Terra incognita, web transparency and a new metaphoric globalisation! Lately technology and web are making humanity go faster… too fast in this wide “Terra incognita” (the latin expression for Unknown land, territorry, used by ancient navigators for the mysterious areas under discovery).  Although we live in a over mapped world that has powerful navigation such tools as Google Maps, GPS, Foursquare, Geo location devices the notion of “direction” has somehow disappeared from the reality maps. Read more […]

Trends in Personal branding and the social media graph

World of evolving social and technological behavior and interaction relation The beginning of the Twentieth century created a world of continuous evolving social and technological behaviour and interaction relations. Also it brought the advent of a time of accelerating mutation, where moments of new trends come with crisis and shift of paradigms. Within this world Personal branding became critical. Personal branding is necessarily the process whereby each person and their respective careers are Read more […]

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The World We Have Within and Inner Peace

The world you have within, your inner silence should be the goal We live in a time when technology and social media platforms and its accelerated interaction open a new division between perceptions. This namely between the internal and external flows of life, the external and internal worlds. All these new advances bring with it a beginning of an expanded sense of the social external relationships between people worldwide. However as humans with feelings, emotions and senses it is more Read more […]

What Means The Web Social Technological Reality

What means the advent of web social technological reality in a Search and Social daily life? The web is increasingly a mix of Search and Social features. Since the manifest about web 2.0 from Tim O’Reilly a lot has happened and at the moment the differences between what is social or not is almost invisible. At the moment the web universe, whether we call it internet or web has expanded towards a social platform of technologies. These technologies include the search powerful mathematical algorithms, Read more […]