While commonplace today, only a few years ago social media technology, such as blogs, was strictly the province of hard-core geeks. But now, grandmothers, public relations flacks, and teenagers have joined the digerati, posting their political views, their cookie recipes, and their innermost thoughts on the newest boy band, and sharing these posts with friends, family, and the wide, wide world.
Executive Summary
Social Media: A Revolution in the Making
By Stowe Boyd
Posted September 30, 2006 | Leadership | Technology |
About The Author
Futurist, researcher, and writer. Stowe Boyd leads Work Futures, an exploration of critical themes of the ecology of work, and the anthropology of the future. He coined the terms “hashtag,” “social tools,” “work management,” and “publicy.”
Mr. Boyd has worked with dozens of companies in the past decades, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, and many startups. Earlier, he was a computer science researcher/educator, led a software startup, and… Read More
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