Ethan McCarty

Digital strategy | Social business | People-centric biznology

Tag Archives: #ibm

Social Media Week Shines a Light on Social Business

This week the digerati and the everyday netizen alike will look up for a moment from their laptops and smart phones to focus their eyes on Social Media Week, a worldwide series of interconnected events and activities about emerging trends in social and mobile media across all major industries. The people who shape the future [...]

Big Blue is the antithesis of Big Brother. It’s ‘Big Open’

Not that anyone asks me anymore why I work for IBM, but this article in Business Insider by Mark Fidelman pretty much nails it.  Basically the thesis is that open, collaborative organizations are the way of the future and fear-driven, dictatorial organization are gonna go the way of the do-do.  Now, IBM isn’t perfect, but [...]

Volunteerism and Citizenship: One mentor’s story

I just contributed a guest-blog post to the Citizen IBM blog about the volunteer work I am doing at P-Tech. The post is called Volunteerism and Citizenship: One mentor’s story.

Talking with kids about the(ir) future

I’m starting as a mentor at a project IBM is doing with the City of New York called P-Tech.  It’s a highschool in Brooklyn that goes for six years — at the end of it the kids earn an associates degree as well as the high school diploma and they are first in line for [...]

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