TWITWEE THE TWITTER CUCKOO CLOCK

This is both clever, and pointless at the same time. Clever like other experimental Internet of Things ideas, like Baker Tweet, and Botanicals, because it gives us a glimpse into what the Internet of Things might eventually look like. Conversely, its as pointless as Baker Tweet, and Botanicals because its interesting for 5min and 5min only. The guy who made this - Haroon Baig - is a rising talent. Check out his other work here Haroon Baig.

Twitwee Clock from Haroon Baig on Vimeo.

MOTIVATING IDEAS AT THE HEART OF GREAT FIRMS

Now social media is on everyone's agenda, how do we answer some of the big organizational questions? A lot of the social media work I do now is about helping firms organize for social media, particularly on a global basis. Cross-departmental organization is also a major challenge. I recently did a talk on who owns social media at Reputations Online.

How do you structure firms for the social age? Who does what? How do you motivate people?

This video shows that money is a bad motivator. We have other higher purpose motivations. These motivations are at the heart of successful firms like Apple, and Skype, and also sit at the heart of the success of open source initiatives like Apache, Linux, and Wikipedia. Although the talk is not about social media there are lots of interesting ideas that can be applied to social media. The video is based on a talk by Daniel Pink, an author on the future of work.

BARATUNDE THURSTON ON TWITTER HASHTAGS

If you don't understand or use hastags on Twitter, this is a very witty introduction from Baratunde Thurston from The Onion.