Exploring #Humanize: Open
The first human element we dig into is "open," which is the focus of chapter 6. We started with open because we think it has always been the foundation of social media's power. Social media took what was closed and made ...
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Exploring #Humanize: The Trellis
The thesis of our book is that organizations need to be more human. Social media has been succeeding very specifically because it taps into what makes us human, and our organizations seem very stuck in a machine-based wo ...
Exploring #Humanize: A Collision Course
This is the first in a series of posts about the new book that Maddie Grant and I wrote, Humanize. I'll be writing an "Exploring Humanize" post every day for the next week as part of the launch. Enjoy! One of the main r ...
Thank You
We can officially declare our new book, Humanize, to be launched! I got my author copies last week, as shown in the picture, and it is now in stock at Amazon (still "pre-order" for some reason on Barnes and Noble), and I ...
Ebook Versions of Humanize Now Available
I have to admit, I've been a bit like a kid the week before Christmas waiting for the launch of our book, Humanize. Maddie and I worked really, really hard on it, and we're proud of our efforts, and these last few weeks ...
The Beauty of Competing Narratives
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we make the case that organizations, in general, are not adapting fast enough to our changing times. And we don't pull any punches. We actually say that best practices are "evil." We suggest (ci ...
Word of the Day: Amplify
I give credit to Shelly Alcorn and her Association Subculture blog for triggering this post. She wrote a post about "volume," referring to a very cool video of George Carlin. Carlin talked about how, later in his career, ...
Rethinking Measurement
Thanks to David Patt, whose comment on an Acronym post pointed me to a really good article by Matthew Forti about measurement for nonprofits. The Acronym post was from Scott Briscoe, building off of Joe Rominiecki's noti ...
Helping Wounded Soldiers
Yes, it's that time of year again when I ask for your help. Although this is the first year (in the last ten!) that I will NOT be doing all four days of our annual "Ride Allegheny" bike ride from Pittsburgh to DC. Wi ...