Archive for August, 2008
Connecting to Social Cities
At Mzinga, I have had many conversations with organizations and agencies about architecting their own social media sites. At some point in the conversation the topic of the large social sites (Facebook, MySpace, and others) comes up. I wanted to quickly discuss my thoughts on this topic here. When building out your own social media [...]
Social Architects
Over the past 3 years there has been an incredible shift in who is building social media sites. Originally, I was talking directly to the vanguards in the industry who took a bet on what they saw as a great new technology and worked directly with it. Today there is a lot more confidence in [...]
Organic Architecture & Social Media
One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s great concepts was Organic Architecture, probably best illustrated by the famed FallingWater house in Pennsylvania. Well ahead of his time, many of his principals apply just as well to constructing online social spaces. Eco-Architect David Pearson describes Wrights principals in New Organic Architecture. “Let the design: be inspired by nature [...]
Seating and Seeding
Have you ever been one of the first people at a restaurant and noticed where they have seated you? Have you noticed that is typically at a visible spot to other future patrons? Either at the windows or visible to the front entrance. Have you noticed that they then try to spread people around to [...]
Why Architecture?
In various roles, at a number of start ups and large organizations, I have focused on leading and executing an online strategy to meet (and hopefully exceed) business goals for organizations. Along the way I have always drawn inspiration from architecture. If you think about the problems that architects are trying to solve in various [...]
