1. 4 Levels of Brokerage

    Inside networks, some people act as connectors, or broker relationships or ideas between one or more entities.  If considered along a spectrum, below are four levels of brokerage that incrementally increase in value for the entire network.

    1. Making groups aware of interests or shared challenges

    2. Transfer of best practices between groups

    3. Drawing analogies between groups seemingly irrelevant to each other

    4. Creating new ideas or behaviors that combine elements of multiple groups (synthesis)

  2. Six principles of gamification

    1. Feedback
    2. Choices
    3. Progression 
    4. Levels
    5. Social
    6. Habit

    *Wharton Business School, Gamification course, April 2013

  3. Sourcing from Women: Meeting in the Missing Middle by Microlinks on Flickr. Checking in with my webinar crew!

    Sourcing from Women: Meeting in the Missing Middle by Microlinks on Flickr.

    Checking in with my webinar crew!

  4. Sourcing from Women: Meeting in the Missing Middle | WLSME.org →

    Another successful event!  Great topic, interesting discussion.

  6. Agreed!

    Agreed!

  7. Approaches to complex problem solving →

    Check out this McKinsey article for a fresh approach to reframing complex problems in a structured way and spurring innovation.

  8. There are two types of management. You can try to design for everything, or you can leave le vide [your discipline] and say, ‘I don’t know either; what do you think?’

    — Rene´ Fourtou, former CEO, Rhoˆne-Poulenc

  10. How To Plan A Successful Social Media Campaign →

    jeremywaite:

    It’s surprising how complicated many people make social media campaign planning. The most successful campaigns are usually the most simple, and they often follow the same pattern.

    Einstein once said that “things should be made simpler but not simple”.

    I’ve certainly over-simplified these two models, but they work as a good demonstration to show how easily you can build an effective social media campaign.