Comments on: I Command You to Click This Link: Fast Company’s Influence Project http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/index.php/2010/07/i-command-you-to-click-this-link-fast-companys-influence-project/ Inspired by Actual Events Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shannon Whitley http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/index.php/2010/07/i-command-you-to-click-this-link-fast-companys-influence-project/comment-page-1/#comment-22896 Shannon Whitley Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:16:18 +0000 http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=947#comment-22896 @Louis Columbus Excellent points. As usual, you're way out in front. I think this will get uglier. @Louis Columbus Excellent points. As usual, you’re way out in front. I think this will get uglier.

]]> By: Louis Columbus http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/index.php/2010/07/i-command-you-to-click-this-link-fast-companys-influence-project/comment-page-1/#comment-22895 Louis Columbus Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:10:03 +0000 http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=947#comment-22895 Way to go Fast Company, projects like this and others undermine the credibility and value of social networking for getting real work done. Given your connections as a publisher, how about attacking the most difficult problems like open innovation over networks to drive new venture creation, or how to get more Americans back to work by finding them jobs? Why a project that appeals to peoples’ narcissism? Especially now with what certainly looks like a recession lingering on? If you really wanted to make a difference in your research Fast Company, go and study why social networks are not trusted in the majority of companies, and why they are resisted as collaboration platforms. It would have been a far more valuable use of time to figure out how social networks can become a catalyst of economic growth and get people back to work than run some contest a celebrity will win by begging for votes. Way to go Fast Company, projects like this and others undermine the credibility and value of social networking for getting real work done.

Given your connections as a publisher, how about attacking the most difficult problems like open innovation over networks to drive new venture creation, or how to get more Americans back to work by finding them jobs? Why a project that appeals to peoples’ narcissism? Especially now with what certainly looks like a recession lingering on?

If you really wanted to make a difference in your research Fast Company, go and study why social networks are not trusted in the majority of companies, and why they are resisted as collaboration platforms. It would have been a far more valuable use of time to figure out how social networks can become a catalyst of economic growth and get people back to work than run some contest a celebrity will win by begging for votes.

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