Climbing back on the Cluetrain
Caught this from Doc Searls the other day and just had to share it. You may recall that Doc is one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, one of the cornerstones in philosophy of where our network technologies are today. This post is a great breath of life back into our heritage from Michael Specht in Australia.
This is perhaps the nicest summary of the Cluetrain ever done.
The Cluetrain rides againAlmost 10 years ago Chris Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger and Rick Levine published a book that was going to change the way we saw the world, The Cluetrain Manifesto
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The basic premise in the book is that markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, and honest, sometimes even direct. Basically you can’t fake it.
Most corporations, on the other hand, only know how to engage in a corporate monotone of mission statements, product strategies and,marketing brochures.
However everything is now changing. People are connecting, and working together. The Internet is enabling these conversations and there is nothing corporations can do to stop it.
With the book are 95 theses that summarise everything into a nice simple message. Yesterday I was re-reading them and wanted to share them with you all. So I created a quick slideshow, enjoy!