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Great places to search for infographics (besides Google) are vi.sualize.us, Posterous, Tumblr, and FFFFOUND, as well as some great blogs.
I’m watching all the speculation over Apple soon-to-be unveiled Tablet product, due to be revealed on 1/26/2010. Steve Job’s had questioned the wisdom of a tablet (NYTimes via John Gruber):
Another former Apple executive who was there at the time said the tablets kept getting shelved at Apple because Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often memorable, asked, in essence, what they were good for besides surfing the Web in the bathroom.
This is kind of a big deal, and may be one of the first mass market attempts of strategic use of Social Media by a major brand. Pepsi appears to be running a textbook engagement campaign instead of a traditional mass market television campaign for the 2010 Superbowl (via Springwise):
The mass printing of words via movable-block type did not reinvent books, it lowered the costs and made them more affordable. The typewriter didn’t reinvent writing, it just made creating content faster and more uniform.
These are simplistic statements and certainly provable as false. But the point remains valid – social media is going to change some industries and destroy others, but the fundamental processes remain the same.
What are your big questions with integrating or implementing social media in your organization?
The first question to occur is governance. Social media policies in general are either vague , unwritten, or unnecessarily restrictive. I feel it is essential to think out the dynamics to avoid social media blunders and simultaneously take advantage of the positive effects. The next concern is privacy, or rather the expectation that we have none (by default); here are two games that can help you understand:
The Pontiac Aztek goes down in history as one of the worst regarded automotive products ever. The Ford Edsel also shares that notoriety.
It now looks like Honda may be going for a double fail – creating a product no one will like (the voting on automotive enthusiast blog Autoblog leads with “Kill it with Fire at more than 81% and 6000-plus votes) and promoting it (and receiving harsh criticism) over Facebook.
