Earlier this year, I was invited to give a Policy Talks@Google talk at Google’s London, UK office. That talk, which focused on digital advocacy, has now been posted online.
Digital Advocacy Talk at Google UK
August 6, 2008
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Episode 272: Build Canada’s Lucy Hargreaves on Canada’s AI Strategy and the Need to Shift From Being Users to Builders
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An interesting discussion of social media’s power and how it has been used so far.
However, isn’t it true that this power to move people in a meaningful way comes in part because there are still only a few voices using social media, and that as the number of voices increases this will dilute the power and reach of each individual voice?
So perhaps these success stories you’ve listed are just peculiar to this early period in social media, and that the noise will soon drown out the signal?