About

Social Media, Web 2.0 & Internal Communications

Russell Pearson’s The Parallax View covers a range of topics, with a focus on Social Media, Web 2.0 and Internal Communications. My background is social technologies as communication and collaboration enablers within large matrix organisations. I’ve been using social media to this effect, since the good old days when all we had was Bulletin Boards and we knew the discipline as ‘computer mediated communications‘ or CMC.

What interests me is how information flows and how it gets used within a dispersed matrix environment. My understanding of this is made up of on the job experience; management training; Project Managementand Process – Prince2, 6th Sigma, DMAIC; through to studying a range of contemporary American and Continental philosophers and spending a lot of time online.

The Parallax View is therefore a bit of a hobbyhorse, where the outputs are born from a hybrid of literary and film theory together with tech, communication and change management knowledge.

What intrigues me is how all of this connects and how it can realise productivity gains whilst making our world both a little bit more interesting and more of a pleasure to be in.

Twitter: If you’ve too much time on your hands, then you can follow me on Twitter. I treat this medium as a mixture of play and work – I find it refreshingly fun, but also very useful for the connections and information it affords. Please do stop by and say hallo, if you have reached me via this route.

Usual disclaimers: The Blog expresses entirely my own personal opinions and has no affiliation with any other bodies or organisations that I am a member of. It’s just me. Fallible as I am, if you’ve found something that I’ve got completely wrong then sorry, please do feel free to put me right.

Russell Pearson, The Parallax View

Update 5/12/09 (that’s December if you’re in America). Just reread this, rather quaint in some ways, all that ‘Web 2.0′, I usually just boil down what I do to ‘intranets, social media & communcations’. Here’s some philosophical musings on the name The Parallax View one year on.