Engagement Dynamics 1 - The Appointment Dynamic

November 7, 2011
"Sorry can't chat - I've got an appointment" is a common enough refrain and highlights the power of having reached an agreement to do something with someone else at a specific time. Psychologically it's powerful because if we fail to keep the appointme...
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Half an Hour ahead - Leadership in the Societal Web.

October 31, 2011
IntroductionThe development of the Societal Web has enabled individuals to become publishers, authors, musicians, radio stars, and commentators on anything and everything. Hierarchical structures have broken down and leadership is something which no longer comes as a result of position, at least not online. Leadership PrinciplesBy definition, a leader is somebody who goes to new
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The naming of Abelard,

October 30, 2011
I'm often asked how Abelard got the name that it did. Peter Abelard - (1079 - April 21, 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary. That affair ...
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Klout makes further changes....

October 19, 2011
Hot on the heels of algorithm development at Empire Avenue, Klout announced today that it will shortly be improving it's algorithm further. They've been presenting the three subscores, True Reach, Amplification and Network Impact, but it's the systems ...
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How well do you balance your ELF?

October 18, 2011
We all face blocks in what we do, blocks that stop us progressing, from learning, from developing. The challenge, first of all, is to be aware enough that we are being blocked, and the challenge after that is to find a way to break the block. That's wh...
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Empire Avenue's Algorithm development.

October 13, 2011
As Empire Avenue (EA) matures it needs to adapt and develop it's scoring algorithms to level the playing field and maintain interest - A tough call. Empire Avenue have always used two elements to determining your "share price", (effectively another onl...
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Digital Bristol - Bristol Young Students of the year award

October 12, 2011
Today I had the pleasure of meeting around 90 students from schools all over Bristol at the launch of the Bristol young student of the year awards held at the Merchant Venturers building, part of the School of Engineering at Bristol University. I'm one...
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What monuments to trust have you built?

October 8, 2011
Building trust is hard, yet breaching trust is rare, in my experience significant breaches of trust by those close to us are phenomenally rare,. Yet, despite this evidence we often fear trusting others and demand high hurdles for them to overcome. Par...
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It's fading fast - Metrics gain a new importance

October 5, 2011
There's a problem brewing at Twitter, it's getting forgetful, and they are hiding search away. Twitter's 'top tweets' search history only covers the last 4 or 5 days, if you try to go further back you get switched to real time search, i.e effectively...
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How Google plus wil be supporting business

October 1, 2011
Google plus is bringing business features to the interface, so be ready, but don't jump the gun. The video gives an insight to what is coming, including analytic integration and ad words integration. That's seems really exciting to me, as by building...
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