I bumped into this video via my Google Reader subscription to Christopher S. Penn’s blog. “The tyranny of common sense” … This is just one of those phrases that you hear, it grabs you and screws up the rest of your day, because there is nothing else you can think about. That’s what happened to [...]
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“The Tyranny Of Common Sense”
June 21st, 2010 
claudio alegre 
Posted in Marketing2.0 
Tags: informal education, informal learning, ken robinson, learning revolution, sir ken robinson, ted, ted talks, web20 
View CommentsTony Hsieh Via Hugh McCleod
June 17th, 2010 claudio alegre (via gapingvoid.com) I don’t know of anyone else that can visually capture the essence of business and culture in general, as Hugh does! I really like this piece …
Posted in Marketing2.0 Tags: cartoons, gapingvoid, hugh mcCleod, tony hsieh, venmarkmedia, zappos View CommentsI’ll Be Happy When You Change
June 15th, 2010 claudio alegre “When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable.” -Rework I know it’s human nature, but sometimes we feel the world is just right when other people change their ways in order to make us happy.
Posted in Marketing2.0, Rant (s) Tags: business, business management, change, management, social View CommentsBreakdown The Process and The Person Shall Follow
June 11th, 2010 claudio alegre Avoid mushroom management (keeping your employees in the dark and covered in horseshit) -anonymous This thought came to mind after seeing an owner browbeat an employee into submission, without a clear objective in mind.
Posted in In The Trenches, Marketing2.0 Tags: business, informal learning, learning process, management View CommentsSocial Media Revolution 2
June 3rd, 2010 claudio alegre If a picture says a thousand words, a video…well, you get it!
Posted in Marketing2.0 Tags: Social media, social media revolution 2, social technology View CommentsDo Your Thing!
June 2nd, 2010 claudio alegre To me “doing your thing” means basically to get off the sidelines and take a chance. Success or failure is not what’s important here. What’s important is to find what “your thing” is, and to start sharing it with the rest of us.
A Favorite Example of Social Media at its Best!
June 1st, 2010 claudio alegre I encourage you to dig for the full story behind this video, it’s to date one of the best examples of how when a story touches us, it can have far and reaching implications. Enjoy!
Press Releases Are Spam!
May 20th, 2010 claudio alegre I’ve agreed with this statement long before I read it as the title of a chapter in Jason Fried‘s and David Heinemeier Hansson‘s book, Rework -Founders of 37Signals, and Signal vs. Noise Weblog.
Posted in Marketing2.0 Tags: enterprise20, press release, rework, signal vs noise, Social media, spam View CommentsFaceBook’s Open Graph Impact on All of Us
May 11th, 2010 claudio alegre Far more qualified blogs and people have explained what Open Graph is and what it means to e-commerce. I’ll keep it simple, I believe Facebook’s Open Graph places us a step closer to Social commerce via the Semantic web “long ago” described by Tim Berners Lee. The ramifications of that are still incalculable.
Becoming Digitally Social
May 5th, 2010 claudio alegre “Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I’ll understand” -Chinese proverb As all things “becoming”, they take work, discipline and habit-forming behavior. But as you probably already know, those efforts usually pay off.
