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This is the world we live in

September 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing, society

This is the nth update of a famous series I’ve already blogged the previous pieces before. No need to add anything. (Found thanks to Luis Suarez).

I’m still curious to know how “common people” react to this video.
One last thing. Luis draws the word “socialnomics” out the video. This words seems very relevant to describe the [...]

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A 15 yo consultant wrote a white paper about teenagers. And so what ?

July 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, social computing, society

The case made much noise last week. A  15 years old consultant at Morgan Stanley produced a white paper on how young people of his generation uses medias. And all the world to swoon over the document, to such an extent it was propelled on the front page of the Financial Times website. I hastened [...]

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Web 2.0 turned the digital divide into a social divide

June 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing, society

Digital divide used to be and still is a real concern in our industrialized countries. Maybe we should end talking about industrialized countries to say “computerized countries” what seems to be more relevant with today’s world. Maybe some would say that it’s because we neglected this shift that we were stuck with old industrial models [...]

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Moving toward business models of a new kind : the example of “Danone Supporting Life”

May 7th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, society

One thing is sure : the “after the crisis world” will be very different from what it was before. It may seem obvious, but if we have a closer look at what happened in the past, we have to admit many upturns consisted of the rebuilding of what used to exist as it was. This [...]

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Personal Branding won’t go without Corporate Branding

May 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Social Networking, recruitment, society

Personal Branding is a very fashionable topic today. More than that, it’s a deep trend that is overdiscussed because of its yougness. A day will come that it will be so obvious that no-one will feel like arguing anymore. The purpose is to manage one’s reputation and professional brand in order to :
- those who [...]

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Do not mistake tab keeping for stupidness. Responsability is needed on the web

February 8th, 2009 · View Comments · social computing, society

In my “web and society” series, I can’t prevent from saying a few words about the tab keeping theory which is put forward by many people as we leave many traces on the web.
Assumption :we leave traces on the web, anyone can use it and not only to help us. We leave traces, the web [...]

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Is internet dangerous for kids or does parents misunderstand what happens

January 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing, society

This blog post by Jon Husband and the  article from the Guardian it menstions takes me to wonder about the presumed impact of the net and its use on kids.
People worry about the time teenagers spend online. So what ? I think that all generations, theirs,mine and our parent’s had their favorite leisures. For some [...]

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