Best 67 quotes of David Amerland on MyQuotes

The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.

To succeed in the digital realm, technology has to provide a strong disruptive element right from the start. If things cannot be done differently , a transition to digital is not going to be compelling enough for a wide enough adoption to create sustainability.

To win at semantic search you need more people than are on your payroll.

Trust cannot, in the real world, be just a matter of personal choice.

Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment.

We live in the age of the semantic web. Semantic search is constantly mining relationships and ascribing interaction values to people, organizations and things. Semantic technologies are constantly surfacing information looking for trustworthy sources to use as a benchmark.

We trust strangers not because they are always trustworthy but because we want to believe in a world where they are.

What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it.

What we value is important to us. It rises in the finite hierarchy of things we pay attention to. We are willing to put effort and energy in it. What we value however arises from our perspective; the way our brain synthesizes reality filtering facts it sees through its library of memories, its catalogue of knowledge and its store of experience. Our perspective then determines how we see the world and sense our place in it which means it establishes our position in what I will call our known universe. The perspective we have then feeds our sense of identity; what we feel we are and our sense of how others see us modified through our need for others to see us in a specific way. Our sense of identity, in turn, gives rise to our values. Our values determine our energy expenditure and guide our attention. Our attention determines what’s important to us. You can see here how a misstep anywhere along this chain can derail us.

When it comes to identity we are all constructs. Who we think we are is the result of our upbringing, memories, skill set, knowledge, experiences and personal belief system. Of all the onion layers that make us who we are, our belief system is what powers our core. It’s what creates the essence of a human being and makes it possible for each of us to exceed our limits, confound expectations and do the impossible.

When it comes to measuring the effectiveness of your engagement in the social media environment what counts are: Comments and Sentiment.

When it comes to semantic search and the success of your social media policy, truly, there is only one thing that absolutely counts: engagement.

When you work on a book and you have planned everything out and you are putting flesh to an idea and a surmise that before was mainly bones something funny happens. Your brain goes into an altered state where the words you write are not quite the words you want but rather the words dictated by the task at hand.

without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.

Writing is a highly encoded form of communication that takes place from one mind to another.

Writing is a highly encoded form of communication that takes place from one mind to another. It may require some kind of hard coding in between. But it is in the accuracy of the decoding that the true ability of the encoder is measured.