Outstanding Club

“Social Media” isn’t just a clever buzz term or another name for Web 2.0 technologies. It is a movement, a set of tools to organize people, talent, skill, money, and other resources in ways that were previously difficult if not impossible to achieve – and will be vital to the success of a project like Outstanding Club.

It seemed appropriate to share a few thoughts about the subject of Social Media, to frame the necessary discussion we all face around how best to use this emerging, synergizing, collaborative, boundary-erasing technology. What part will you play in the Social Media Movement?

“Wikipedia works because so many contributors figured out how to self-organize into a group that produced something far more useful than a traditionally organized document.” - from the Seth Godin blog

“Folks, you use social media to connect with people not to market to them.” - Josh Hallett

“Social media is a cult of generosity. Share everything you can with the world” – Shel Israel

“Everyone is, or soon will be, connected to everyone else, and all available information, through instantaneous, multi-way communication. This is ubiquitous connectivity. They will therefore have the experience of being immediately proximate to everyone else and to all available information. This is pervasive proximity…It is a world of entangled, complex processes, not content. It is a world in which the greatest skill is that of making sense and discovering emergent meaning among contexts that are continually in flux. It is a world in which truth, and therefore authority, is never static, never absolute, and not always true.” - Resonance Partnership blog

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