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Is Social Capital The Whole?

Our social capital is only one part of the whole but the whole is greater than the sum of our parts. Individually we are the parts, collectively we are the whole.
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Is "Social Capital" The Whole?

This entry is part 14 of 13 in the series Creating Social Media Value

With the increase use of social media everyone seems to categorize its use into one dimension or another. Some categorize the value equations as social capital, reputation capital and a host of other names which are attempts to define the emerging value proposition.

These attempts reflect emphasis on the parts rather than the whole. You’ve heard the expression “the ...

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Accounting for "Social" Assets

This entry is part 30 of 29 in the series Conversational Currency Author: Dan Robles

A-L+EWall Street will often reward a company that has a large backlog of orders. This can appear in the eyes of most observers as an asset. After all, who would not want a backlog of orders?

However, in the world of social media, a huge backlog causes a serious problem – it represents commitments made that have not yet been delivered. An unfulfilled ...

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Accounting for “Social” Assets

The winners in Social Media are the ones that put people in the asset column, not the liability column.
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Where's The Humility?

This entry is part 29 of 29 in the series Conversational Currency  Author: Dan Robles

Many companies are flocking to Social Media as the great new tool for pitching products. The results have been mixed; there are winners and there are losers. At first, there was no clear path toward certain success but now the differences are becoming increasingly clear. Humility is rewarded and arrogance is punished.

If “Nice guys ...

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Where’s The Humility?

Since the humble are secure, they are strong. Likewise, when Brands are humble, they too are strong and they don’t have to flaunt their strength or use it to dominate others.
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Knowledge Cost by the Hour?

This entry is part 13 of 13 in the series Creating Social Media Value

A prospective client asked “what do you charge by the hour?”. My response…”I don’t”.  The prospect then asked “then how do you determine how much to charge me?”. My response “By the value you desire me to deliver using my knowledge”.

Knowledge needed to ring up sales at a cash register is different than knowledge needed to engage more customer that will ring the ...

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What Do We "Know"?

If I knew what you know and you knew what I know what we we both know? If we all knew what each other knew how much value could we create from what everyone knows? Social technology will eventually lead us to a “knowledge inventory which indexes what everyone knows. Think about it.

As we share content we are sharing what we think we know or want to know. Not knowing something can mean the difference in gaining or loosing ...

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The Emergence of Knowledge Assets

I like reading content that teaches me something. I don't like reading blogs that teach the wrong thing. But how would we know the difference?

Knowing whether something is the proper perspective, the correct analysis or insightful is relevant to our existing knowledge asset in reference to other knowledge assets. A knowledge asset is simply that which we've learned, experienced or discovered. Our knowledge asset rest between our ears and ...

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What Do We “Know”?

The silos of irrelevant contextual key words will come down and when they do the power of knowledge will be unleashed for all to access and use.