culture

Customer service is an important aspect of any business. Without customers to purchase the business's products and services, the company cash flow dries up faster than a rain shower in the Sahara.

When it comes to communicating online, there is a definite unique technique that surpasses them all, catering specifically to Internet Culture - the one social element that connects us all, no matter where we're from, as long as we're hooked up to the world wide web.

Park, Ribiere and Schulte (2004) in their study, investigate the key attributes of organizational culture that support more effective application of knowledge management (KM) technologies.

Jimmy has been warming up for his Wikimania Keynote on Larry Lessig's blog, talking about 10 things that should be free.

Matching individuals to organizations is a crucial part of success for any company. The match between people and the companies for which they work is determined by the kind of organizational culture that exists. The degree to which an organization's values match the values of an individual who works for the company determines whether a person is a good match for a particular organization.

"[T]he Internet [is] the most recent and the most sinister facet of American cultural imperialism to emerge: the Internet is anchored in the United States; the vast majority of World Wide Web sites are based in the U.S and are in English; most software used to navigate the Internet is in English; and search engines are in English (Kim, 1998)".

As someone who's more into the 'fusion cuisine' side of new communication tools and channels rather than the theoretical/cerebral analysis side, I tend not to spend an extraordinary amount of time in digesting long essays and white papers about new media or social networks.

It's interesting that Tom Foremski wrote this today--the day I got to meet him in person ...