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Secrets of Social Media Revealed 50 Years Ago - David Aaker - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
Looking at the social media role in brand building, I suspect that these same four motivations explain why some brands have been successful in using social media. It suggests that, in the absence of e... Read more
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/secrets_of_social_media_reveal.html
Tags: marketing, social, via:packrati.us, communication, socialmedia, history, articles, business, media, authority Saved by: admin at 18 Jun 2011

A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky
Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources without a human standing beside the result. This model has... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/a-speculative-post-on-the-idea-of-algorithmic-authority/
Tags: authority, shirky, algorithmic, community, clayshirky, trust, algorithm, identity, relevance, research Saved by: admin at 16 Nov 2009

The Psychology of Security
http://www.schneier.com/essay-155.html
Tags: workplace, work, tradeoffs, toread, tips, time, theory, text, terrorism, technology Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

STAT-USA/Internet * Home Page
http://www.stat-usa.gov
Tags: trade, statistics, research, reference, government, finance, economy, economics, economic, documents Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

Phil Windley's Technometria | Contextual Authority Tagging
Lots of details on reputation and tagging -- concepts like "which users in a group are authority figures on a certain topic area" are very powerful.
http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/11/contextual_authority_tagging.shtml
Tags: reputation, fordayre, contextualauthoritytagging, authority, acm Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

How to Become an Authority in Your Niche: Eight Content Development Tactics
For niche experts, knowledge only becomes an asset when it is shared. By freely sharing knowledge, experts allow their reputation to grow.
http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-become-an-authority-in-your-niche
Tags: positioning, marketing, expertise, branding, blogging, authority, article, 2008 Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

Wikipedia and the New Curriculum
it is not only about teaching people about Wikipedia but, more importantly, about this collaborative literacy in general, wherein the notion of the individual authority or expert no longer holds.
http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/wikipedia-and-the-new-curriculum
Tags: scholarship, wikipedia, pedagogy, teaching, expertise, authority, article, 2008, literacy, learning Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

Slashdot | The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia, Part II
The focus on the encyclopedia provided the task and the open content license provided a natural motivation: people work hard if they believe they are teaching the world stuff.
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205
Tags: purpose, wikipedia, politics, opennes, motivation, vandalism, history, usability, ethos, essay Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

Seniority, Respect, Authority and an Agile Team
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/seniority-conflict-agile-team
Tags: seniority, authority, article, agile Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

Resisting Authority: A Personal Account of the Milgram Obedience Experiments
http://www.jewishcurrents.org/2004-jan-dimow.htm
Tags: science, research, psychology, obedience, authority, article Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009