This week’s dis­cov­er­ies. Click through and enjoy.

The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media

The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media

A really good look at the nature of social media and how not to engage and use it from the founder of WOMMA.

Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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Books Avail­able for Scan-​​On-​​Demand (Boston Pub­lic Library) (Open Library)

Books Available for Scan-On-Demand (Boston Public Library) (Open Library)

Library 2.0. Seri­ously. Awesome.

Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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Net­worked cit­i­zens | NPSC Blog

Networked citizens | NPSC Blog

Senior NZ pub­lic sec­tor com­mu­ni­ca­tor, Jason Ryan exam­ines and expands for the pub­lic sec­tor con­text on the recent report, “Net­worked cit­i­zens” from UK think tank DEMOS.

Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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ETech: Google Pre­dic­tion Mar­ket Dat­a­min­ing Shows Meat­space Mat­ters | Epi­cen­ter from Wired​.com

ETech: Google Prediction Market Datamining Shows Meatspace Matters | Epicenter from Wired.com

A fas­ci­nat­ing look at the power and activ­ity in Google’s inter­nal pre­dic­tion mar­ket. This is def­i­nitely some­thing I’d like to see done at more busi­nesses requir­ing inno­v­a­tive thinking.

The prox­im­ity analy­sis is par­tic­u­larly interesting.

Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★

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It’s Not Over: We are “the change we need.” — O’Reilly Radar

It's Not Over: We are

Inter­est­ing look at the gov­ern­ment tran­si­tion in the US from Tim O’Reilly. Smart think­ing and ideas. We need more of the Oz tech com­mu­nity think­ing and act­ing in this way.

Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★

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