Social Networking Explained The Low Tech Tutorial Way.

“This video is for people who wonder why social networking sites are so popular. One reason is because they help to solve a real world problem. www.commoncraft.com/show ”

I just came across this video as I was browsing aroung You Tube. It’s a rather fun and simple “animated” screen shots of a mystery. Yes, Social Networking is still a great mystery to many. Thanks to these guys I hope this helps. But this is a simple, to the point tutorial.Thanks guys.

Olympic Village

Just a little heads up to the biggest sporting event in human history- the olympics. This is the largest sporting community on Earth and Beijing has made the largest Olympic Village ever.

There’s another thing unique about it - it is designed to be environmentally friendly and designed to house sixteen thousand atheletes and officials.

All of those apartments will then be renovated and sold off as condominiums to the public. Considering the realtive wealth of the Chinese population in Beijing they’ll likely be snapped up in no time.

Tribal Values - The Best Business Strategy

Thus far, I have been writing about online communities and their community builder. The last post about an unknown Amazon tribe really got me to thinking about other tribes, and why people are such social creatures. We need to belong for a common cause. It may be for safety, for defense or for offence. It is a strong part of our strategic make up of survival. This is not survival of the fittest, but the survival that the strength of a group provides. One persons inability is made up for by anothers strength. But then, depending on circumstance, the role can easily be reversed.

Here’s John King speaking about cultures (tribes) versus business strategies.

So, being in a social group is tribal and being tribal is a cultural force. Don’t you just love John King’s statement that culture eats strategy for breakfast any day - on the study of why 70% of all business strategies fail. But some people have a contention that up to 90% of all business strategies fail!

But I’m just being picky we know what works best - Culture - Tribes - Communities.