But many companies that would get great value from blogging, in particular for defending their reputation online, are being held back by overwrought fears of the potential dangers. Doing nothing is not necessarily the safest path, let alone the one with greatest value creation. blog without purpose very quickly loses its way. MORE >>

Interestingly, every speaker brought up the need to be more efficient and cost-effective as well as the need for librarians to add more value to their services. Adding value speaking and workshopsI just left the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries. For great coverage of the summit, see Connie Crosby's blog. MORE >>

used the image below showing five ways to add value to information. As I prepare a presentation to the senior staff at one of Australia's more innovative universities later this week I just had a glance at the slides to a keynote I did back in 2002 to the Australian Library and Information Association. It still makes sense. Web 2.0 MORE >>

In last week’s installment of  “ Rethinking the Value of Social Media ,&# I discussed how social media marketing is not and should not be a pure numbers game. Instead, we should be measuring the value of our followers over time against engagements — both quantitatively (how many?) grow at the same rate? MORE >>

Today, I thought I would look at the ‘ Value Polarization ‘ section under Economic Structure. As I have pointed out for many years, one of the major implications and risks of a hyper-connected world is the polarization of value, in which the gap between the haves and have-nots increases over time. RELATIONSHIPS. INNOVATION. MORE >>