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Managing Leadership | The strategic role of the senior executive

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:16:19 -0000

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The president is indeed a politician obliged to work things out with other politicians. Some of those are ambitious and immensely capable members of his or her own “organization,” the executive branch. Significantly, others are members of another branch of government, the legislative, which presumably deliberates and produces the legislation which the president is charged with executing.

The primary difference between the Government and a coporation is the Constitutional demands for 3 co-equal institutions. posted by oldude59

On the one hand, you have a legislature directly representing the people and constituted specifically to determine and give direction to the actions of the government – much like a board of directors. On the other, you have an executive which gives expression to that direction.

Absolutely Not! The Congress is in no way like a board of directors - Boards of directors are installed to at best represent the interest of the owners - the Congress has a much more operational function. posted by oldude59

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Stephen Sizer: What is your reputation worth?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:05:25 -0000

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Thankfully there are companies out there dedicated to protecting and defending your reputation. Reputation management is available, for a monthly fee of course. So, if there is unwanted content about you on the Internet, agencies such as ‘Reputation Defender’ offer ‘destroy’ assistance promising their “expert team will work tirelessly to remove that information” about you.

Reputation is a construct that does require thought - but it also requires exectuion - in an online enviroment that is critical. What is also important is dialouge - something this author seems not to desire. posted by oldude59

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Online Spin » Blog Archive » What Does The Future Look Like? Or, What I Read On My Summer Vacation

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:33:42 -0000

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On one side of the equation lies the over-eager media audience, which engages with its passions in a participatory manner that borders on fanaticism — but is skeptical in its views of all messaging pointed in its direction (let’s call its members the “Participants”).

For the Participants to trust a brand, the message must come from a peer or a colleague or someone they inherently trust.

For the Desensitized to trust a brand, you need only demonstrate to them the value of your brand in a way that merges rhythmically with their attention

Non-paid media is the typical term, but I’ve started referring to it as “distributed media”: the use of marketing dollars to facilitate the distribution of content, and the implied endorsement that comes along with that relationship.

Tags: leadership marketing reputation spin

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Helping Readers Use Social Networking Tools | Ed Cyzewski: Freelance Writer

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:21:06 -0000

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Here are a few ways that readers can use online social networking tools to spread the word about your book.

I’ll be asking readers of Coffeehouse Theology to do at least one of these:

Write a Review…

Write a brief review at amazon.com, buy.com, borders.com, and barnesandnoble.com. These aren’t exactly “social networks,” but these reviews are sitting right at the point of sale, which is a tremendous tool if enough readers share their thoughts.
Post a review to your blog (looking to start a blog? Visit www.wordpress.com to set up a free account)

Add it to your Facebook profile

Add it to your book list
Add it to your Visual bookshelf or other book application. Share a brief review there.
Join the Coffeehouse Theology group
Post a link to the book’s page www.inamirrordimly.com/coffeehouse-theology/

Add it to your MySpace profile
Add it to your online library such as Library Thing or Shelfari

There are plenty of other tools out there that authors themselves can use, but as far as what readers can do, these are all simple ways they can talk back via reviewing and help spread the word of your book.

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Reputation Institute

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:31:44 -0000

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Key Factors in the Future of Social Networking « The Cynical Idealist

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:12:37 -0000

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Data Ownership - Data ownership should remain and always remain the property of the individual. Issues of data ownership need to be addressed strongly going forward, no company has the right to own my data. I may grant them permission to loan it temporarily for purposes that are for my benefit, or theirs if I am feeling altruistic, but the right to use my data for a third party should be revocable at any time.

Data Portability/Migration - Likewise an extension of the above, I should be able to transfer and make my data accessible to third parties with ease. I shouldn’t have to be duplicating forms all the time.

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The Facebooker Who Friended Obama - NYTimes.com

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:00:28 -0000

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The centerpiece of it all is My.BarackObama.com, where supporters can join local groups, create events, sign up for updates and set up personal fund-raising pages. “If we did not have online organizing tools, it would be much harder to be where we are now,” Mr. Hughes said.

Mr. Obama, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, credits the Internet’s social networking tools with a “big part” of his primary season success.

The heart of the campaign’s online strategy is a teeming corner of Mr. Obama’s headquarters two blocks from the Chicago River, a crowded space that looks more like an Internet start-up company than a campaign war room. During a visit in late May, a bottle of whiskey sat, almost empty, atop a refrigerator (there had been plenty of victories to celebrate lately, a staff member explained).

Sitting amid a cluster of cubicles, Mr. Hughes, whose title is “online organizing guru,” handles the My.BarackObama.com site, which is known within the campaign as MyBo. Other staff members maintain Mr. Obama’s presence on Facebook (where he has one million supporters), purchase online advertising, respond to text messages from curious voters, produce videos and e-mail millions of supporters

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Zócalo Group | Word of Mouth Marketing Resources

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:23:07 -0000

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IBM Business conduct guidelines

Fri, 23 May 2008 06:53:22 -0000

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IBM's Business Conduct Guidelines (BCGs) is our code of business conduct and ethics for our directors, executive officers and employees. Any amendment to our BCGs that applies to our directors or executive officers will be disclosed on IBM's website, and any waiver of the BCGs for directors or executive officers may be made only by the IBM Board of Directors or a Board committee and will be disclosed on IBM's website.

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Fri, 23 May 2008 06:49:34 -0000

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These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. Since then, many new forms of social media have emerged

Whether or not an IBMer chooses to create or participate in a blog, wiki, online social network or any other form of online publishing or discussion is his or her own decision.

To learn: As an innovation-based company, we believe in the importance of open exchange and learning—between IBM and its clients, and among the many constituents of our emerging business and societal ecosystem.

As our business activities increasingly focus on the provision of transformational insight and high-value innovation - whether to business clients or those in the public, educational or health sectors—it becomes increasingly important for IBM and IBMers to share with the world the exciting things we're learning and doing, and to learn from others

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eLearning Technology

Fri, 23 May 2008 06:48:30 -0000

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Companies need a policy. And most corporate guidelines out there around social media are fairly similar. They generally make each employee personally responsible, they need to abide by existing corporate rules, obey copyright and other IP rules, keep secrets and act appropriately.

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tecosystems » because technology is just another ecosystem

Fri, 23 May 2008 05:55:43 -0000

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Which just wouldn’t work for me. One of the first things I do to start my day is page back to the last Twitter I read the night before, catching myself up. If you following a 130 people, this easily accomplished. 13,000, not so much.

Tim Bray, for example, clearly views Twitter as a volume tool, saying:

There’s one thing that’s become terribly clear to me: Twitter is inherently a river-of-news; when I come back to my computer after a while offline, I have no urge to look back at the missed tweets. If it’s important, it’ll come back.

Twitter is for me a personal tool first, business tool second. I’m not paging backwards through my Twitter history every morning to learn anything important; I’m paging backwards to learn the spectacularly unimportant. And that almost certainly won’t come around again.

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ESPN - Sampson joins Skiles' staff with Bucks, keeps quiet on Indiana ordeal - NBA

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:57:55 -0000

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Sampson said his reputation is "very important" to him, but only knows one way to regain it.

"Just be who I've been my entire life," Sampson said. "Sometimes you take hits that you have to overcome, but that's something that I just work at as I go forward.

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Whistleblower exposes insider trading program at JP Morgan - Wikileaks

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:37:41 -0000

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A confidential memo obtained by Wikileaks shows that not only has the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission created an insider trading loophole big enough to drive a truck through, but that Wall Street is taking full advantage of it, establishing 'how-to' programs and even client service divisions to help well-heeled clients circumvent insider trading regulations.

Here's how it works:

1. An insider client transfers all or a portion of their company stock into a JP Morgan Securities Inc. brokerage account.

2. The insider then develops, in conjunction with the 10b5-1 team, a 'phased, pre-planned sales program to be executed at either market or specified prices'.

3. Depending on the information available to the insider (but not the public), the insider can decide whether to execute the sale or not.

By gaming the system this way, JP Morgan teaches insiders how to use their knowledge to create a rigged market, one in which it is the "house" that always wins, and the small investor that always loses

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Wikileaks - Wikileaks

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:35:06 -0000

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Our primary interests are in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we expect to be of assistance to peoples of all countries who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact.

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Hyde Park » Congress expected to pass Sarbanes Oxley Social Media Amendment

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:55:51 -0000

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“The much awaited Social Media Amendment to the Sarbanes-Oxley act is expected to be ratified by Congress before the mid-term break later this week. The intent of the legislation is ‘to promote the global competitiveness of publicly held U.S. corporations by stimulating authentic conversation in our nation’s workplaces,’ said Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox.

Many advocates of social media in the enterprise hold that large corporations who don’t embrace these technologies are run by Luddites or dinosaurs who “just don’t get it.” Authenticity and transparency are the new Gods of corporate communications, to hell with the regulators and shareholders.

Smart companies will find a balance between a freer, less structured communications infrastructure and their obligations to shareholders and the government

Not only is it OK to think about the message being conveyed in every medium, including social media, it’s exactly the right thing to do. This doesn’t mean a company needs onerous blogging policies, extensive social media oversight, or a legion of marketing people ghost-writing blog posts that are safe and “on message.” What is required though is a commonsense approach. Companies should choose bloggers who are intelligent and social-media savvy in the first place. If there are no such people in the company, then train the people you do have, hire people who understand social media or table the blogging plan for now.

Simply isn’t workable. How do you ‘know’ who is ‘intelligent and social-media savvy’ at a time when we’re still very much in the experimentation stage? Why does this have to be an implied open to all thing?

SOX isn’t going to have anything like the same impact when viewed through that lens.

This would seem to exclude the effect of whistleblowers or slip-of-lip conversations about theoperations posted by oldude59

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Independent Sector / Accountability - Sarbanes-Oxley and Implications for Nonprofits

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:51:45 -0000

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Sarbanes-Oxley Implications for Privately Held Companies

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:47:13 -0000

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Those provisions primarily applicable to privately held companies include:

Whistleblower Protection - Persons providing information about the commission of a federal offense are protected. Those who retaliate against such whistleblowers are subject to fines and may even get up to 10 years in prison.
Document Destruction - If any company is being investigated by a federal agency, including the IRS, anyone destroying documents faces fines, plus up to 20 years in prison.
Securities Fraud - The time to make claims is extended to 5 years from the date of fraud or 2 years after it is discovered.
Bankruptcy Implications - Security Law violations are no longer dischargeable in bankruptcy.

What things make sense, in any event, whether you want to comply with SOX or not?

Avoid "conflicts of interest".
Consider some independent directors.
Create a whistleblower policy to protect such persons.
Establish good internal controls.
Evaluate risks and insure properly.
Adopt an ethics policy or a code of behavior.
Be sure the relationship to the company's accountants is at arm's length.
Consider a committee to evaluate executive compensation.

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Technology Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley (WTN News)

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:30:59 -0000

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In fact, Sarbox does not mandate any technology; however, it is difficult to envision compliance without IT implications. Most companies will need to create an IT infrastructure for rapidly assessing and reporting critical events that materially impact a company operations and financial reporting.

Sarbox compliance may cause companies to examine and potentially redesign all of their financial business processes and supporting technology solutions. Convergence, simplification and centralization of information will be keys to compliance.

Many companies do not have good internal controls, especially when it comes to e-mail, content management and processes. The ramifications, especially in light of Sarbox and related rules, are now magnified. Gartner, Inc. estimates that by 2005, 90 percent of information that is not explicitly stored and managed by RM systems will be potentially recoverable using business continuity or forensic analysis tools, even if efforts are made to delete it.

This assumes a measure of control that social media is attempting to make more difficult. posted by oldude59

While section 302 received the most attention when Sarbox was enacted in July 2002, it is section 404 that is now receiving the most attention as compliance deadlines begin this June. However, it is section 409 which could trigger the most attention towards technology since it requires near real-time reporting for material events. This section has received little attention to date since the SEC has not yet decided upon final rules or implementation dates.

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Section 406 -- Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:22:40 -0000

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senior financial officers, applicable to its principal financial officer and comptroller or principal accounting officer, or persons performing similar functions.

Definition. In this section, the term "code of ethics" means such standards as are reasonably necessary to promote--
1. honest and ethical conduct, including the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships;
2. full, fair, accurate, timely, and understandable disclosure in the periodic reports required to be filed by the issuer; and
3. compliance with applicable governmental rules and regulations.
Deadline for Rulemaking. The Commission shall--
1. propose rules to implement this section, not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act; and
2. issue final rules to implement this section, not later than 180 days after that date of enactment.

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