Sep 30, 2007
coward MS? wise MS?
Sep 23, 2007
Don't bother me!!!!!!!!!!! please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 16, 2007
be yourself-the best way to blog
The blog is the representative of one online where more people participate and sometimes better conversations have been made. The authors of naked conversations, Scoble and Israel demonstrate that the interaction online between corporate and other constituencies is becoming important and even more essential. I am agree with that because most people use the Internet everyday and get information from it.
To describe, nowadays, politicians are like corporations. They advertise and promote themselves through blogging. For example, two major presidential candidates in South Korea, Myungbak Lee(www.cyworld.com/mbitious) and Geunhye Park(www.cyworld.com/ghism) from Hannara party, a nongovernment party, have been renowned for their blog. More than 1000 people visit their blog daily and show supports or sometimes antagonism. They upload their campaign pledges with reasonings, personal photos with explanations, hobbies, and press released from other media. They are blogposting to tell the truth about themselves, which is to tell the truth (kind of), which is the first Corporate Weblog Manifesto qtd. in Naked Conversation(191-194). At the blog, they show that they are as same as other common citizens so that electors can feel comfortable with them.
I sometimes visit their blog to see what is going on. Whenever I go their blog it is so interesting because they show the old pictures of theirs with sense of humor. Without blog technologies, it's impossible to see politicians from the different perspectives, the aspect of human. With this grateful technologies, they've been doing a good job in attracting people because they have been themselves in their blog.
p.s
They've used Cyworld, which is the most popular social networking website.
here's some quotes from Business 2.0,
-Cyworld, for example, is a social network owned by a subsidiary of SK Telecom, the country's largest wireless provider. To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life.
- Users have avatars that visit and can link to each other's "minihompy" - a miniature homepage that's actually a 3-D room containing a users' blog, photos, and virtual items for sale. Cyworld's digital garage sales include music, ringtones, clothes for your avatar and furnishings for your own minihompy.
- Cyworld has penetration rates that would make Rupert Murdoch, CEO of MySpace parent News Corp, green with envy: An astonishing 90% of South Koreans in their 20s use the service. Celebrities and politicians set up their own minihompies, and the way to get ahead in twentysomething Korean society is to found a popular Cyworld club, or chat room.
(http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/06/16/the_future_is_in_south_korea.html)
*Naked Conversations; How blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers. (2006) by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
Sep 10, 2007
Trust based network works
what's good network and how do we build it?
Know your own power as a networker
- think of myself, what I've done, and what I've pursued in order to know the values, principles, and my goals
- come talk to new people first
- remember people's name/profession/etc
- communicate and interact with people afterwards
- get involved in the group or community
Sep 3, 2007
Social Capital
by many people such as Rob Cross and Laurence Prusak,
the authors of "The People Who Make Organizations Go-or Stop" at Harvard Business Review in 2002. Now, the networking among people is not just a relationship or a network, it is the social capital.
They distinguish types in social capital based on the role in the organization: central connectors, spotting boundary spanner, information broker, peripheral specialists. In their review, they all value these four types of people high with mentioning possible problems.
Anyhow, how it works?
"Saguaro about Social Capital" (http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/primer.htm) says that works in many ways: information flow, norma of reciprocity, collective actions, broader identity and solidarity.
Almost every action and every reaction of one entity is relevant to social capital.
Then, among four types, who is the most wanted?
- central connectors links people inside the group, so organizations would need them
- boundary spanner connects other part of the organization, so orgs would need them, too
- information broker communicate across the sub groups, so orgs want them as well
- also, peripheral specialists are specialized expertises, of course, orgs need them.
Then, all are needed for organizations. It differs from one's personality and specialization.
So far, it seems that many expertises tried so hard to find ways to make organization more efficient and effective. They are even caring so much about informal network. But all these studies took the management viewpoint from the organization.
Even informal network has been used by organization management. And it seems that employers judge their ability or value through identifying each social capital and the role inside (they sometimes give intensives or higher salaries for some people because of their role in the org). Therefore, we can't just neglect the role of informal network.
Then, what do we do for a successful social network??
From the member of the organization's point of view, how we could make OUR organization better?
In my opinion, it is all about leadership. Leadership is not just for the leader. The one's own way of working with pride in their work gives one leadership. Sometimes leadership is followed by the pride and confidence. Leadership is about being independence and communicating with people at the same time.
There will be better answerS for this "what do we do for a successful social network?"
Although I also value the social network, today's lives are so intense.
We can't just let it go...