/Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
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Via @TomForemski (keynote at #SMU2010 in Orlando, 10-13 Nov, 2010) citing Joel Postman’s Socialized blog —
Social Media Is Not About Conversations… It’s About Something Much More Amazing - SVW
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To borrow Ladislus Horatius - philosopher and artist living in Vadstena, Sweden - quote on quotations and proverbial expressions, “minitature ‘thinkbytes’ are freeze-dried wisdom”, I think the Marshall McLuhan item of freeze-dried wisdom here, gives a big key clue on how to rapidly shift focus: Shifting away from a much disturbing bias on Social MEEEEEEdia locking our collaborative intelligence, where I know alot of WEEEEEEE thinking and (inter)acting PEOPLES who want to CONVERSE more about the SOCIAL WEEEEEEEEEEb. A conversation much preferred to do in conjunction and in confluence with a parallel hyper/meta conversation done among PEOPLES who focus Social SOOOOOOftware (where my focus these days is on Communities of WordPress and BuddyPress in the coming mass deportation from Ning - with many Ellis Islands of choice).
Where SO… in ‘Social Software’ is not about PEOPLES at the code level, but rather is a common element in the conversation about how to help PEOPLE.
“SO, BASICALLY, WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS…”
[fill in the blank with something relevant to empower and create leverage in the process on how to make progress of the Social Web of Humanity - increasingly connected virtually, hopefully and intentionally towards One World, One Family, One Love, One Peace if you converse with me]
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Note: I promise to macroblog about this on Notes from a Sustainopreneur, and elaborate more extensively about this in higher degree of clarity using this comment as a synopsis for the time being, where I will depart from one of the slides from the slidepack, from my keynote in May on the “Social Web Holarchy” - future time-stamped guarantees regards ‘my writing’ I have learned by experience not to do, so no promises on “when” ;).
