It’s nearly over! As you might know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, or if you’ve ever had the misfortune to bump into me after a hard day’s graft, for the past two years I’ve been working on a book looking at social media at work.
It started out with a focus on leadership…and then morphed a bit – because you can’t look at “leaders” without taking “followers” into account as well.
So it’s turned out to be a bit of a socio-cultural, anthropological snapshot of the contemporary workplace, with some practical business stuff and future-shaping trends thrown in. All looked at in the context of the digital/ social media/ Web 2.0 revolution.
The title is “Monkeys with Typewriters: myths and realities of social media at work” and the publication date is 1 December. There’ll be a launch event at Cass Business School on 9 December.
Why the monkeys? Well, it was probably Andrew Keen who got me started on that. He warned that monkeys with typewriters are authoring our future. And the more I looked into the monkeys with typewriter idiom, the more I liked it.
Because, of course, we are the monkeys!
13 replies on “The monkeys are coming…”
Jemima, congratulations and well done! I’m really looking forward to reading the whole thing as a book.
What next?
Well done sweetheart. I recognise that monkey. Does it belong to Lila? x x x
Hi Lloyd – a pint, I think!
Hi Noam – erm, no, of course not :s
Thanks guys.
congratulations :-)
Thanks Mike!
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Congratulations, what an achievement! I know how proud all your friends and family are of you – brilliant!
Lots of love Anna
Yay! Thanks Anna!!
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Congrats Jemima,
I learned so much from getting to do your transcriptions…so much amazing and valuable information contained within all those interviews. I’m so looking forward to the wisdom you extract from them and the narrative that you’ve pulled together! Hope to see you soon! x
Ahh thanks Lobelia!
You get a special mention in the book, of course :)
x x x
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