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The new workplace

Jay Cross

Young people who grew up with Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia, and Google are entering the workforce. People communicate with texts, Tweets, iPhones, email, and blogs in their personal lives, and expect to be able to do so at work. People have become savvy web consumers. New hires ask “Where’s the network? Where do I post my profile?”.

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Activity Streams

Jay Cross

MySpace, Comcast, and other players huddled around a conference table in the offices of Six Apart in San Francisco to discuss activity streams. Related: ReadWriteWeb: Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity Streams. Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!, Chris Messina: activitystrea.ms. Wikipedia: nothing up yet

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Harnessing social apps

Jay Cross

People are connecting with one another in increasing numbers, thanks to blogs, social networking sites like MySpace, and countless communities across the Web. This free article in the MIT Sloan Management Review tells story after story of companies engaging customers, for better or worse) through MySpace, YouTube, and the usual suspects.

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July bonanza at Working Smarter Daily

Jay Cross

MySpace As Important as Facebook - Nine Shift , July 14, 2011. Futurist conversation: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on the future of money - Ross Dawson , July 25, 2011. How To Fix Google+ Circles - Stephen Downes: Half an Hour , July 19, 2011. The Science of Complex Systems - Irving Wladawsky-Berger , July 9, 2011.

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Humannet at Cisco

Jay Cross

MySpace, Comcast, and other players huddled around a conference table in the offices of Six Apart in San Francisco to discuss activity streams. Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!, Action Notebook, Digital habitats: stewarding technology for communities by Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, and John D.

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Dawn of the Un-book

Jay Cross

Today's activist readers pluck information from the blogosphere and YouTube and their friends on Facebook and MySpace. A study by the Jenkins Group, a custom book publishing firm, found that: • One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. • 80 percent of U.S. • 70 percent of U.S.

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Internet Time Blog » Harnessing social apps

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