Strategic Social Networking in a Hyperlinked World: iDEA DIFFUSION

▼Design 360° Series▼

○ ○ ○ As I recently explained to someone, quoting Tate Linden, “Design is an opportunity to con

-tinue telling the story, not just to sum everything up”. And continue, in the mind of the strategist, is not just about iteration but the おた (otaku) obsession of elevating & refining

value each time around with a view to clarify. And so, being on the fringes, fearless like-

minded early adopters or curious innovators paying attention for example, can look at a

Current Top 20 Most Influential in my Development, or Success Shorts Series, or even

High Impact Strategic  Business Sense Series, and with a Three-Dimensional Mindset

that thinks globally (à la HTML & WWW) rather than narrow-mindedly stuck on a single

website, appreciate the idea diffusion process at play. And what silences detractors

finally is that late realization that what seemed good, simple, short, normal or bet-

ter, was bad all along. The inability and/or refusal, as Sir Ken Robinson counsels,

to embrace creativity as a method, origination, invention or approach that has &

adds value; to think not in categories, but instead, shred default setting mind-

sets so as to lucidly appreciate the distinct dynamism and diversity of creative

work, is a common barrier to appreciating  the reach, capacity or reasoning

behind sophisticated design & human behavior alike. To really  understand

what a blog is let alone strategic/intelligent computing, social media use &

so forth, including basic security/privacy, fairly strong Associative & Cri

-tical Thinking Skills are required. Most people — and they're almost aI

-ways the same ones who attack designers and innovative people — do

not understand that a blog is a webpage. Academically, it is easy to

memorize. In practice, one needs the aforementioned habits and

skills to really grasp its implications. And that begins with under-

standing at a very basic level what we really mean when we say

WWW (or the world wide web). You'll notice HTML (the code

I'm using to design this blog) is inevitable when defining W3.

That code (whether the design is fully baked or not), effec

-tively, is My Briefcase. And that totality that is My Blog,

comprises one of several Global Libraries I own, which

elucidates Victor Papanek's remark that “Design is the

conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.” I

conceptualize, design and build WWW & non WWW

experiences for strategic (business , personal and

other) use. For example, this Music Manager &

also, for like-minded early adopters & inno-

vators as well as curious strangers & globa-

lists. And those who understand the HTML

WWW access implications at a practical

& holistic level, tend to be careful a-

about their presumptions. Because

once Design is complete & in use,

most of the discussion regarding

function (between designer &

user) often goes offline and

is totally private. We'll ex

-plore that in subsequent

series of this blog. But

from Ford's collabor-

ation with Come-

dian Kevin Hart

to MiT, Design

360° (below)

is all about

substance

function

+ value

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