by Brian Solis on May 10, 2009
by Brian Solis
I’m just returning from my trip to Next09 in Hamburg Germany where I had the privilege to serve as one of the event’s keynote presenters among a cast of some of those whom I most revere. During my session, I discussed how the event’s theme, “The Share Economy,” equated to the Social Economy and the laws of diminishing attention.
We’re constantly struggling and learning how to discover and in turn, personify our place within the perpetually evolving social universe.
It is the ongoing saga of bridging the distances between who we are and who we want to be and furthermore, manifesting this presence outward.
I believe we are creating our online persona with every status update, tweet, video, picture, review, comment, and post, we share. We’re forging networks through a fusion of traditional relationships and friendships and also contextually – following and friending those whom we admire and respect based on their ideas, vision, and experience. It’s how we share, discover and learn. The nature for how we view and establish relationships is evolving before us and eventually we will change how we interact based on the contextual network we’ve built. Most of your “friends” don’t care about your profession exploits. Concurrently, your peers and professional contact are not better off for knowing anything about your personal endeavors.
There will be a collision and ensuing fallout.
What’s next?
Multiple Personality “Order.”
Don’t be surprised if eventually, if for only a short time, we maintain multiple online personas in the networks that are important to us as a consumer and also as a producer.
I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story:
Next09
Andrew Keen
Stowe Boyd
Chris Heuer
Andrea Vascellari
Brian Solis and Dennis Howlett
Nicole Simon, Tobias Kaufmann, Martin Recke
Stephanie Frasco
Stowe Boyd, Matthias Lufkens, Dennis Howlett
Pictures of Hamburg and other things that caught my eye:
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by Brian Solis on March 13, 2009
by Brian Solis
Michael Dolan reached out to let me know about an interesting game that he’s introducing at SXSW.
SXSW Bingo is a clever play on some of the more popular and emerging trends on Twitter, the statusphere, and other social networks. For example, the team picked up on the Hashtag sign for marking a noteworthy topic in the real world.
Halcyon throws up the Hashtag sign.
Other moments to capture include:
- Gary Vaynerchuk with a glass of wine
- People playing RockBand (come to the TechSet Windows Mobile blog lounge for an easy shot)
- Guy Kawasaki Twittering
- Robert Scoble sighting
- A Geek Girl
I asked Dolan to share he vision for SXSW Bingo, “We wanted to make a game that was fun, easy to play and drew on our shared geeky obsessions. Most of us sit in front of computers all day, so we wanted to create another way for people to connect with each other in person. It isn’t often enough that the Twitterverse and the universe cross paths.
Here’s how to play:
- Download & print the Bingo board. Bring it with you to SXSW.
- Take photos of person, situation, or thing depicted on the Bingo board.
- Twitpic your findings to Twitter with the tag #sxswbingo.
- Mark an ‘X’ on the card for items you’ve submitted. When you have completed 5 squares in a row, tweet BINGO! with the tag #sxswbingo to announce your victory.
Photos must be taken at SXSW between March 13-17, 2009. For more info, check the FAQ.
Prizes include Kindle 2’s and other cool stuff.
See you at SXSW!
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by Brian Solis on March 6, 2009
by Brian Solis
Robert Scoble and Louis Gray
Last night during a small, but memorable dinner, we all wondered who would leak the news, Robert Scoble was leaving FastCompany. The story is live on TechCrunch right now and according to the story, Scoble confirmed with Mike sometime before the evening was over.
Indeed Robert Scoble is leaving his full time job at FastCompany.tv to introduce, well, we’ll let him tell you at SXSW. He’ll continue to write a column for FastCompany in the future.
Scoble continues the story in his post, “Why I haven’t posted for two weeks.”
I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story…
(L to R) Brian Solis, Jeremiah Owyang, Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, Loic Le Meur, Barak Hachamov of My6Sense, Harry McCracken, Deb Schultz, Eliane Fiolet
JD Lasica
Harry McCracken
Deb Schultz
Hashtag
Yoav Shoham and Eliane Fiolet
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