April Poll: Is your Facebook account open to the public?

Do you limit your Facebook account to family and friends or is it open to the public?  Where do you draw the privacy line?

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Group Texting will replace email

[yes, this is an April Fools post]

You heard it here first.  GROUP TEXTING WILL REPLACE EMAIL.  Technologies come and technologies go but Group Texting (aka Group Messaging) is here to stay.  Group texting makes sense for several reasons:

  1. People have overshared – Folks have connected to hundreds/thousands of people on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc, etc.  However, they’ve lost the ability to connect with people the really care to converse with.  One can’t talk to a thousand people with any meaning.  Having the ability to control who is in a group allows one to share information in a controlled manner.  This lets then be true and transparent.  Transparency leads to trust.  Trust leads to deep relationships.
  2. Noise – All this connectivity leads to a massive amount of noise.  It’s a personal firehose that drowns us.  Groups all one to reduce the noise and focus on groups of people that they want to stay connected with.
  3. Privacy – Group texting allows for more private communication among people.  Although nothing on the internet is truly secure, at least with Group Texting your not sharing your information with known criminals and crack heads.
  4. Context – Groups can be organized around topics such as events, regions, family, fans, etc. This provides context around communications and allows for group conversations – sort of like discussion boards.

Think about how Group Texting could be used!  It’s a great way to let your fans know what you’re having for breakfast.

With so many vendors coming on line (Fast Society, Facebook’s Beluga and GroupMe, Google Disco) the future seems bright for this technology. 

I can certainly see this technology eclipsing many technologies including 1-1 texting AND email.

Innovation without Execution is __________?

I asked this question because my answer was a bit too….shall we say “colorful.” And I need a better way to share the thought that innovation for innovation’s sake is pointless.  Here are the responses I’ve gotten so far.

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Add yours in the comments:

Kord Miller: Innovation without execution is a good idea left on a post it note.

David Horn: Innovation without execution is pollution.

Scott Holz: Innovation without execution is just another idea.

Mike Miller: Innovation without execution is Par for the course sadly. As we learned at Babson, the quality of the idea is secondary to the quality of the team. Even the best idea will go no where if not nurtured properly.


Photo credit: Pixomar

Does social measurement drive douchebaggery?

Seen at SXSW Interactive:

  • Where’s the better party?
  • Is this person below/above my social station?
  • Unbelievable displays of phoniness
  • Elitism from those “in the know”
  • Amazing rudeness towards “commoners”

Question:

Does social measurement drive douchbaggery? What if we took away all the social counters?  How would online social behavior change if we didn’t know how many followers we had?  Would people be nicer?  Would be engage more earnestly?

Or maybe SXSWi is the Hollywood for the social nerd set.  The same douchiness seen in Hollywood celebrities naturally translates to social celebrities and social scoring just helps us identify the Justin Bieber in our crowd more easily.

What do you think?

@iamreff hat

I’m terrible with names.  I’m immensely awesome with faces, but I will forget your name.  *sorry*

To help me remember everyone I met, I had a hat made with just my twitter handle on it and I asked folks that I had a meaningful, valuable connection with to sign the hat.  So this is a big thank you to everyone that took the time to get to know  me, and let me get to know them.

Here are those that signed the reff hat, see you next year? Continue reading

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