As a new blogger I have been overwhelmed by the virtual conversations I have found going on around the world - overwhelmed and inspired. I have already had to instil some discipline in my browsing - otherwise I will be lost in hours of tangents, following one link by another, grazing haphazardly, as I did at the weekend. To say it is compulsive would be an understatement.
In my recent explorations I came across an interesting blog by Greg Verdino, called Beyond Knowledge.
In it Greg discusses the impact the internet is having on knowledge and the enormous shift in the economy in terms of what is being traded. It used to be that knowledge was highly prized and closely guarded - a company would hire you because you knew more or knew better. But the internet has made knowledge so readily accessible (not to mention mostly free) that this transaction no longer holds any value.
Greg suggests that now it is all about the connections we make. He talks about a "connections economy" and suggests that the people who are the most valuable are the ones who can share these valuable links.
This led me to see that there will be a new industry born from the expansion of knowledge - the development of roles for people employed by companies specifically to aggregate and disseminate this knowledge - the emergence of a professional media which collects and reports on leading social media.
I wonder what these new roles will be called and what you will have to do to prove you are the person fit for the position. These positions I think will become the most key in an organisation. To have someone who is able to access, monitor, harness even, the wealth of material produced.
