InfoCompanions » Social Media http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Greg Matthews on power of social media as a tool for innovation http://www.infocompanions.com/greg-matthews-on-power-of-social-media-as-a-tool-for-innovation/ http://www.infocompanions.com/greg-matthews-on-power-of-social-media-as-a-tool-for-innovation/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:23:10 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.com/?p=517 With cool project work to back him up, Humana’s Director of demonstrates the power of social media as a tool for innovation.

]]> http://www.infocompanions.com/greg-matthews-on-power-of-social-media-as-a-tool-for-innovation/feed/ 0 Clay Shirky: How social media can make history http://www.infocompanions.com/clay-shirky-how-social-media-can-make-history/ http://www.infocompanions.com/clay-shirky-how-social-media-can-make-history/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:27:36 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.com/?p=430 , Facebook and other forms of are continuing to change our world in ways we never imagined. Who imagined that Twitter and TXT messaging can facilitate the early waves of democracy in one of the world’s most authoritarian regime, Iran? And who imagined that in May 2008, BBC would first come to know about the devastating earthquake in China through Twitter (last time the quake happened, it took China 3 months just to admit that an earthquake had hit China!)

In this impressive talk, shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

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