Tara Hunt

Over and over again, I’m observing how valuable connections are. Social classes aren’t dead by any means. If anything, they’ve become more powerful than ever.

I always had a gut feeling that something was wrong about what we value and what we don’t value in the Western world. I just couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Marilyn’s book (the documentary was based on it) unlocked the examples and language I needed to start down my path.

Lots of people talk about the impact of the real-time web and how it benefits businesses as well as serendipity – and it does! – but history is also chock full of relevant and powerful information.

Businesses aren’t the only entities lacking a focus on beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. Our entire culture is. Part 2.

There is clear evidence that social business – businesses that mean a damn and are a platform to change the world in a positive way – works…not only socially, but financially. Why then aren’t we all putting our energy in that direction? Part 1.

Bias is a self-fulfilling prophecy. When someone with privilege screws up, they are the ‘exception’, when someone with disadvantage screws up, they are just reinforcing the bias – whether the statistics back it up or not. And it’s culturally taught, experientially reinforced and vicious cycle driven into our lizard brains.

A woman who exhibits a keen desire to share knowledge (for instance, to talk about data, the future of economics and the changing socio-cultural climate) is emasculating at best. Get used to it.

Another post coming from that place of un-ending optimism. Thanks to Maureen Johnson for being so damned inspirational.

I needed to get some solid numbers and stories to clarify some assumptions I had on why and what people share as well as how they felt about the consequences of sharing. Boy did I get it!

I’ve been looking for a good example to show in my presentations that demonstrates how little the numbers of followers/friends on social networks means when it comes to real world action. This is it.