The Original Social Media Anti-Expert | Me

3 things tell a man quote

Been introduced as a social media expert / guru / master / ninja (shudders) etc too many times.

“Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.”
Alvin Toffler

Been saying stuff like this for over four years…

It’s time to live it out.

Leave by a different exit.

Go a different way.

Change down gears.

Be more humble.

Become an anti-expert (for a while)!

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The Learning Hill | The Learning Pit Remixed

the learning pit

A re-envisioned model of learning.

Came across James Nottingham’s / Dr John Edwards ‘learning pit’ a few years back when delivering some social media training in an English school and was reminded of it again recently at a couple of conferences here in NZ.

A totally agreeable and digestible model.

Above is my take—’the learning hill’—in my experience, it works better as an ascent:

  • climb—it takes guts to start, a keen eye to spot a route, explore the track or path to forge, courage to continue (as you stumble, fall, fail and loose your footing or encounter the need to backtrack many times);
  • reflect—as you get closer to the summit, satisfaction of acquiring a new skill or insight needs reflection, an opportunity to survey new horizons, to ponder it’s full use and application;
  • apply—the ride down is as complex as the scale up, it’s all about using the wisdom gained, extending possibilities with others (through storytelling), creating positive and lasting change (and maybe starting the whole journey again).

Just a thought.

If it helps, take it.

Remix it again.

Hat tip back etc.

Related post : Education vs Life | A Thought and in the comments at Humanising Wisdom | An Exploratory Presentation
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Webstock 2013 | Liveblogging Day One

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For the next two days I’ll be opening my brain / heart to the Webstock experience, here in Wellington, NZ.

Usually I tweet the hell out of these things but the idea of filling the tweetmail stream with stuff which might not be relevant to my audience has led me here.

What follows are my observations, quick notes, insights, idea captures etc.—sometimes paraphrased, sometimes not, all caught on the fly (full webstock programme):

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The Icarus Deception Cheat Sheet | By Me And Seth Godin

the icarus deception cheat sheet

Grab the much-more-readable PDF version (2.2mb) by clicking image above.

The Icarus Deception was the book Seth Godin got paid to write via this Kickstarter campaign.

There are some gems in the notes above and it’s a motivating read (even if—as with most of his books (which I’ve read)—Godin simply coins a phrase and describes a process which you already understand but might not be doing anything about).

Then again, maybe that’s the strength of his work—if you’re too focussed on the finger which is pointing you miss the heavenly glory.

Thanks to Anna for lending me the book in the first instance.

Other cheat sheets: Rework and The Element
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National Digital Forum (NDF) 2012 | Beyond Social

Time to ask some different questions—here’s the programme description:

If social (media) is no longer the new shiny set of tools that everyone gasps at then what are the next set of questions? In this fast-paced session, DK will balance his presentation with overarching cross-sector ‘big picture’ strategies right through to platform-specific tools and techniques which deliver.

Here’s the critical question in my piece:

If I asked how many of you [in the audience] have a social media strategy or are developing one, then half would probably raise their hands. If I asked how many has a social media culture [in their organisations] then I would wager there would be very few?

Have a think about this for you and your organisation / company…

Client testimonial:

“It’s all about the intersections” pretty much turned into the unofficial tagline for NDF2012 after DK’s spell-binding talk in the opening morning’s plenary session. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard people talk about his presentation and the idea that collectively we need to stop thinking about our collections, websites and work as destinations and start seeing them as intersections—places that our audience find new ways to move between all our stuff. It was a wake up call—one we needed and are heeding. Truly inspiring stuff, thanks DK!
Matthew Oliver, NDF2012 Conference Organiser

Thanks to the National Digital Forum for giving me permission to put up online this screen recording and remix (originally recorded November 20, 2012—they are still waiting for the folks who did the filming to send them the raw video files).

If you have the time, check out the other sessions from this really good conference.

Related post: Strategies vs Culture | Influencing Excellence
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Humanising Wisdom | An Exploratory Presentation

Introducing a new idea.

This is raw. Thoughts in flux. A developing concept and a growing passion:

Humanising Wisdom is an attempt to explore / activate / apply the latent wisdom in organisations, brands and individuals.

Presented at The 16th International Conference on Thinking yesterday.

NOTES

Would love to hear your thoughts on this. What does ‘humanising wisdom’ mean to you? Do I make sense? What didn’t work? What did? Hit me up in the comments…

YouTube video version
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