A revolution doesn’t happen when a society adopts new tools, a revolution occurs when a society adopts new behaviors.
This applies as much to an organization as it does to society at large. The well-made UsNow video introduces the power and utility of social media to the unfamiliar, but will appeal to the well initiated as well. Need to demonstrate or explain why the Web 2.0 functionality adoption in your next recommendation is not about the technology, but about ideas and cooperation? (not to mention tapping into resources and systematizing informal knowledge) Start with the just first few minutes of this video.
Some additional quotes from the opening few minutes:
More people can say more things to more people than ever in history, and that is still growing enormously. … So if you can create an encyclopedia with millions of people you never met … what else could you create? … These tools have lowered the cost of doing things to the point where our desire to engage with one another is enough to get things to happen on a large social scale rather than a smaller family scale. … The web can create large communities of informal knowledge, systematize that and make it very useful.
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s guest appearance on the Daily Show was immensely entertaining. Far beyond the typical academic, Goodwin is a great story teller, who just draws one in. Ever ask where are all those who would be statesmen? Or sigh and shrug in disgust thinking politics is dirtier and more shallow than ever? Ha! Apparently we are right on par with the smear campaigns of the 19th century. What we don´t have is the songs.
… They used to have these great songs, like “I like Ike cause Ike is easy to like”. Oh and my favorite one is “Get on the raft with Taft”. Now Taft weighed 350 pounds and if you get on a raft with Taft, you’re gone. … Van Buren was corrupt, so the jingle was: “Who would for gain, his country sell, deserves the lowest place in hell. Van Buren.”
[ ... This campaign is ] no where near as dirty as the old campaigns. [...] When Thomas Jefferson ran, the other side, the Adams people, said he was a howling atheist …
About Doris Kearns -From doriskearnsgoodwin.com
Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, which was a bestseller in hardcover and trade paper. She is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. Ms. Goodwin serves as an NBC-TV news analyst and lectures around the world.
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