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TED: Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust Reputation is the measurement of how much a network trusts you. As the reputation goes up the more tasks you get and the more you can charge. As we move digitally we leave a reputation trail. Let's make our reputation travel with us from site to site. But one score is not nuanced enough to really reflect us. Influence is not the same as reputation - that people like us does not reflect on whether or not we can do tasks. So how do we collect reputation data. Realtime stream of who has trusted me or responded to a task I have done. My reputation capital dashboard will be checked by others, like Linkedin. TrustCloud, ConnectMe. Your intentions, capabilities and values. It can create an influence positive disruption in who has power, influence and trust, taking power from the current powerholders. We are limited because our reputation currently cannot be measured or seen in relation to the celebrity power holders. M...

Why Facebook is becoming pasty (aside from the interruptive ad placements). When I post something controversial and you ignore it, it ranks low on Edgerank, Facebook's algorithm for what to post to the Feed. If you only Like sugar, or only engage with sugar, you only get sugar. Pretty dumb of Facebook. 

Social Networking Guidelines (this is not an instruction manual, it's a suggestion collection from various sites) Apps • change your settings so you don't spam your friends • invite friends carefully About yourself • don't make your address or phone number visible to strangers Business stuff • belongs on a page or group, not on your profile Chat • don't chat unless you have something to say Comments • keep to topic in a comment thread • don't change the topic • don't comment on every post of your stalkee • reply at least once to comments on your posting • don't preach • if your comment gets deleted, take it with grace and apologise • check your posting for inflammatory language and tone it down • don't be the first commenter on your status • don't cause drama and don't keep it going • don't swear in someone's comments section Defriending • not allowed, move to a restricted profile Date potential • wanna dat...

Took place in Cape Town, I listened online - which another listener called listening in morse code because it was so choppy. And it must have been from their side because a 10 MBps guy in England experienced the same thing. And I followed the #NetProphet hashtag on twitter. It was fabulous. I was almost there. Here are my jumble of notes SPEAKERS #NetProphet ~ #RichardHardiman Richard Hardiman: Internet Radio in South Africa. Why it shouldn’t work • a differentiation happens online • consultants from overseas tell you how to do it • focus on client, not the end user, the client is the advertiser • Tim Bishop: Too many (Digital) Entrepreneurs= fragmentation of best brains into 1000s of small entities. We must #ENTREPRELABORATE • working for yourself you mind the hours and small salaries less because you are passionate • when you set out to do something different, people question it. • Average time spent listening to 'normal' radio is 23 minutes but internet radio is ...

Bosses who think that social networking keeps people from their work are wrong This isn't China. Facebook is the modern smoke-break Bosses are afraid that if they can't see their employees working at home are wrong M&Ms interrupt - managers interrupt, meetings interrupt You can Quit Skype, Quit Facebook, Quit Twitter - you can't Quit your manager At home you can take a walk later, record the program you want to watch later, or work later. How about no talk Thursday afternoons. Silence in the office. Work will be done. How about managers leaving people to get some work done.

A leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed He has to be doing something easy Then someone will join him The first follower transforms the leader from a lone nut into a leader The first follower is also a leader, it takes guts to be the first follower Will show the others how to follow The leader embraces the follower Nurture your followers if you are the first leader The next followers emulate the follower not the leader Three is a crowd and a crowd is news, the third one starts the tipping point As more people join in it's less risky Those that join in quickly will be part of the in-crowd Those that are too slow will be ridiculed because they don't recognise the leader Leadership is overglorified The first follower is the real leader Have the courage to follow, have the courage to be the first one to follow the lone nut

The water wasn't safe, so the English used drink beer By 1650 they had started drinking tea and coffee and since before they were drunk, the Enlightenment started when tea and coffee spread.  From pub to coffeehouse The architecture of the space allowed ideas to have sex Been studying what environments breed ideas, patterns Chaotic environments Important ideas have long incubation periods, they fade into view Building barricades around ideas - copyright, patenting - which stifles many of them Noodling around, hacking Chance favors the connected mind - ideas that pop into your head by chance because people suggest reasons and uses for your ideas, stimulating your imagination

Martin Luther King - I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be Mother Theresa - The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of the family to small We give too much voice to the most divisive amongst us Book titles reflect this - Pinheads and patriots; Arguing with idiots Negative otherizing morphs into violent extremism Counteracting otherizing A strategy: Take the other to lunch Agree on some ground rules - ahead of time Be conversational, don't persuade, interrupt, be curious, listen, be real, don't try to change the other side, acknowledge that it's a first step What issues concern you, what have you always wanted to ask someone from the other side Two people dropping the pretence of being know it alls Two people practicing ubuntu

Spend money on your blog. Spend it on domain name and hosting, the rest is ornamentation. Be yourself. Purple cows are more noticeable than little grey men. Don't guest post. It diverts your energy from your blog with little reward (I don't agree with this point). Post quality not quantity. Be sustainable. Blog about your passion. Even if there's competition for keywords, if you know your stuff you are in (similar to the anti-copyright argument, that copyright is there to protect the mediocre - then the mediocre can at least sell their (book) to 100 people, instead of relying on vitalness). And remember, advice is not 'law of the universe'. Source: Rob Cubbon