Almost every time I have a conversation, I learn something new. But I don't have nearly enough time to have conversations, learn and write blog posts. So now that some people called me influential , I'm hoping that I can leverage my influence to inspire people to have a conversation with me and help me with my lack of time. So, here are Today, I saw a post by someone suggesting ways to come up with ideas for blog post topics and they gave some examples. The examples were not all that relevant to most of the readers of this blog, but it definitely sparked a thought for

Next is to create conditions for people to use the community; you need interactions and conversation to grow the community. It’s about conversation • It’s not all about the blog post itself - it’s about the the conversations that the blog post triggers (this will build community spirit…like a thriving dinner party…you will go to the next one as you enjoyed the company and stimulation of the previous one) - people are more prone to comment, rather than blog or write a forum topic - don’t have to be provocative, but even when posting about

PR 2.0 The Future of Media and Communication Starts Here Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Introducing The Conversation Prism Last year, Robert Scoble and Darren Barefoot debuted the Social Media Starfish to visualize and document the rapidly evolving landscape for social tools, services, and networks. If you work in marketing, public relations, advertising, customer service, product development, or any discipline thats motivated, shaped, and directed by customers, peers, stakeholders and influencers, monitoring

seeking conversation: Let’s consider a simple scenario - I’m trying to decide if a particular solution makes sense for my company / organization. This is a great example of what you can find by reaching out to seek conversation. And conversation can be virtual or by scheduling a call. One of the questions being raised this week in the free, online course Work Literacy: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is how social networks impact personal learning.

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Tags: India TED interview conversation Responding to a call from Kiruba Shankar , a bunch of us got together and embarked on a project of interviewing all the TED India fellows . Working by ourselves, we researched the fellows, prepared our questions for them, hunted out their coordinates, chased them with calls, hounded them with reminders, poked them on Facebook, and then used some more tricks from our armories.

Conversations Here was the fun part – I asked: If I could put you into a networking event where there were 100 people who fit the profile of your prospects and they had their resumes taped to their chests so that you could pause at any time to read the resume, what would you do? One of the participants said that they would ask questions of the person about how they are dealing with issues that relate to their services. Other people would suggest more social conversation, but that's not my style nor the style of the person who answered. I recently did a presentation in Los Angeles on Web 2.0

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“Love the conversation” is Tony Karrer’s closing sentence in a recent discussion on his post, Reduce Searching Start Talking . couldn’t help but be entertained by this, for the post and its associated discussion are precisely about the practical usefulness of information, brought about through conversation, rather than by a search on an information database. Conversation can apply to discourse on a blog, chat-room, phone or face-to-face. The poet in me reads his words as having latent yet brilliant dichotomy. I

Without looking at any other ways to encourage informal learning amongst leaders (everyone is a leader in a knowledge-intensive workplace) – just promoting informal conversations would be beneficial. Yes, learning is conversation (2005) . Conversations The folks at Scotland’s GoodPractice for leaders & managers have a white paper on How Managers Learn , with some interesting, but not surprising, results. They conducted a survey to find out more about informal learning in the workplace, inspired by Jay Cross , who has shown that “ informal