1. Failing in the right direction.
Kate Carruthers
Reorganising work in regards to social media.
Social media changes everything. Underlying most if not all of how we communicate.
1: Focus
2: Operational tempo
3: Skills
4: Resources
5: Trust
Social Tempo: continuous engagement.
Shifitng resources.
“What’s the ROI of your mother?”
Manifesto for agile software.
Learning doesn’t happen from failure itself but rather from analysing the failure, making a change,
and then trying again. Over time this gives you a deep understanding of the problem domain. –
Michael Hunter – Fail Fast 2005
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael/archive/2005/08/17/failfast.aspx
http://www.slideshare.net/carruthk/failing-in-the-right-direction
Slideshare.net/carruthk
Making the impossible, possible.
Nic Hodges
Failing often, failing fast.
Social media does not mean just facebook.
Social means connection.

2. Mirroring our online and offline connections.
Out of social networks came the WWW. (IRC, ICQ, BBS boards)
Online projection of our offline self.
Social media returning to a collective mindset.
Things that were impossible that are becoming possible.
Social creation platforms: Wikipedia, soundcloud, quora
Social curation: Pinterest, tumblr, svpply
Social funding: Kickstarter, pozible,bandcamp
Social Data: data.gov.au, kaggle (making data science a sport), digital public library of americ, havard
library motivation lab.
A powerful and important trend.
Issues: Authenticity, too much information, sea of content, rights of use, trust, privacy.
*labs.mediacom.com*