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In.Telligent Conference 2008 - Connecting The Dots For Social Computing, Social Media, Community
1. In.Telligent Conference 2008
Connecting the Dots for
Social Computing, Social Media, Community
Lawrence Liu
http://friendfeed.com/lliu
Director of Platform Strategy
Telligent Systems
2. What is Social Computing?
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3. What is Social Media?
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5. Communities
Omni Media
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6. Elevator Pitch for Community
• Warning: This stuff may get a bit too
heavy, philosophical, anti/pro-[put
your favorite ultra sensitive issue
here], simplistic, complex, scary, or
just annoying for some of you.
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7. Elevator Pitch for Community
• At work as much as in life,
• During good times or bad…
• Conversations matter.
• Relationships matter.
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8. Elevator Pitch for Community
• But what matters most beyond
conversations and relationships in
order for us to be happy and
successful?
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9. Elevator Pitch for Community
•Seamlessly
•Integrated
•Contextual
•Awareness
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16. Elevator Pitch for Community
•Fundamentally,
contextual awareness
enables us to make
informed decisions.
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17. Elevator Pitch for Community
• By optimizing our contextual
awareness of the people and
things associated with a decision,
we can achieve a more pragmatic
understanding of the potential
risks and consequences of the
various options that we can choose
from.
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18. Elevator Pitch for Community
• But…
• We need something else just as
fundamental as awareness in order
to make decisions that have potential
risks/consequences beyond what
our respective comfort levels would
allow.
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19. Elevator Pitch for Community
•Courage
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20. Elevator Pitch for Community
• Where does courage come from?
• Our own experiences (usually by
learning from our mistakes and
building on our successes).
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21. Elevator Pitch for Community
• But…
• Our own experiences (usually)
aren’t enough.
• So, where else does courage
come from?
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22. Elevator Pitch for Community
•Community
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23. Elevator Pitch for Community
• By leveraging community, we are
leveraging the experiences of others
rather than just our own to grow our
inner courage.
• And with more courage, we can tackle
the tougher choices that lead to better
decisions based on our contextual
awareness of the issues and factors as
well as the risks and consequences.
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24. Elevator Pitch for Community
• But…
• Community can lead to…
• or
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25. Elevator Pitch for Community
• What’s the difference?
• Nazis = Insular Community
Cult
• U.S. = Open Community
Democracy
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26. Elevator Pitch for Community
• We belong to many
(micro)communities.
• How do we stay in touch with
the people and things that we
care about?
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27. Elevator Pitch for Community
•Seamlessly
•Integrated
•Contextual
•Awareness
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29. Why is community mastery so
challenging?
Because it requires balance.
30. Where do we go from here?
http://CommunityZenMaster.com
31. CommunityZenMaster.com
• A community about community.
• All content licensed via Creative Commons
with Attribution.
• Focus on standards, practices, tools…
– and people who aspire to be…
• Community Zen Masters.
• To be launched in February, 2009.
• Currently redirects to my blog.
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32. CommunityZenMaster.com
• Who was the universe’s first Zen Master?
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33. CommunityZenMaster.com
• You can be one, too!
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