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Who owns you? Identity and Ownership in social networks
Informal Spaces are places that we choose to inhabit, to join other like minded people in a shared and communally owned place. Be it for contacting friends, finding knitting patterns or playing...
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Excuse me, is that really you? Reality and identity in social media OR How...
Well, it’s official, 50Cent didn’t write his own Tweets (but it’s ok, he’s learnt his lesson and he does now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12676791) To get started, i think it’s worth mentioning...
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Identity and knowledge, philosophy and science in learning. How what we know...
There was a fascinating discussion on Radio Four’s Start the Week (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010t3p0) yesterday morning, between Simon Baron-Cohen and Julian Bagini, a leading Cambridge...
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Why do we choose the words we do? Choosing your voice and creating identity...
What’s in a word? Quite a lot actually. We choose the words that we use in the same way that we choose the clothes we wear and the colour we paint our lounge. Words are powerful, emotive and evocative....
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Speaking with many voices. Is one Twitter account enough?
I’ve been having a dilemma about Twitter. You see, of all the channels, it’s proving surprisingly popular, and i seem to be gathering followers apace. This is all well and good, but i don’t really have...
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Identity and culture. Learning how organisations change and how they resist it.
Change is a difficult thing. It requires a vision and action. It’s more than just a new logo and some smarter chairs in the office. Organisations are made up of physical environments (their offices,...
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The view from the window: learning our sense of place.
Experiencing an unusual sense of writers block on the train this morning, i looked out of the window and caught the most wonderful view. The train takes me through the New Forest and today, thanks to...
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Exploring social learning environments: what can we take with us that is...
A weekend of sunshine has reminded me of one of the crucial differences between the real world and the virtual: the weather. Whilst we build relationships and friendships in both real and social...
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Choosing the right clothes: social learning tone of voice and identity
Next week there’s a big Christmas meal which, leading to much debate amongst certain elements of the community as to what to wear. There are impressions to be made, people to catch up with and...
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What’s in a name?
It used to a simple thing, to answer the question ‘what do you do‘, but today, as the realities of the Social Age bite, it becomes ever harder, ever more subjective. Are you defined by the job you earn...
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The Culture Game
I’m running a multi day event next week, centred around a Culture Game: the premise is that i’l create a scaffolding for people to use to ‘invent’ a culture, and we will then explore how the different...
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#WorkingOutLoud on ’The Roots of Storytelling’
As ‘Quiet Leadership’ and ‘Power and Potential’ take flight, i’m left with time to make a start on the next project: ‘The Roots of Storytelling’. Whilst there is a chapter in ‘The Social Leadership...
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Stories of Exclusivity and Exclusion
As part of a series of pieces developing the new Storytelling work, today i am considering how stories create exclusivity and can form part of exclusion. I was given an award a couple of years ago: at...
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Types of Story: Reputation and Identity
This week i am building out ideas around Reputation and Identity as part of my current writing around ‘The Roots of Story’. Reputation can be viewed as a story, taking varied forms: partly we may seek...
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Identity
What is your identity? Do you have one, or many? Are all of your identities public, or are some hidden? Do some require you to be badged or accepted by other people, or can you self determine it? How...
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These Are Me: Identity Stories
I’ve finished writing up the first two Identity Stories from the new research project. Both are quite different, and already fascinating. In this work i ask people to describe the three identities...
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Launching ’These Are Me: The Identity Project’
Today is a soft launch for ‘These Are Me – The Identity Project’. This small scale qualitative research project explores our identity (or rather, our identities!), through interviews. The aim of this...
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Identity: Turning Points
I’ve published the first five Identity Stories so far, and completed ten interviews in total. These are extraordinary stories from everyday people. Possibly because so many people are extraordinary if...
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#WorkingOutLoud on Identity
Tomorrow i will publish the latest Identity Story over on the Identity Project site: this will be the seventh story published, and i have conducted a further nine interviews, which i am writing up. So...
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Why Should We Care About Identity?
I’m excited that next week i will be sharing the Identity Project work for the very first time in a conference session. This is very early stage work, but i feel it can already provide some useful...
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