Mobile phone cameras

Can you remember a time (maybe 5-10 years ago) when mobile phone cameras were not prolific and the possibility of having our every move captured and published on FaceBook or YouTube was not omnipresent?
This evening E and I went to the cabin to water the shrubs and ensure the sod was surviving the heat (98F) we set the sprinklers off and sat to watch the boats and water skiers play and apparently my phone snapped a picture as I was sitting down…. Now the machine is checking up on me ;)
Strangely slanting pictures aside, it is remarkable how public our private lives have now become, it would be unthinkable ten years ago for me to be writing this blog, it would be unthinkable that the cost of the space to store the digital image would be “free” it would be unthinkable that over a hundred people will read this post tomorrow.
But the explosion of content, the availability of information and the transformation of communication from verbal to digital is a juggernaut that is not stopping, it is going to be really interesting to watch how corporations respond to the groundswell of Facebook adoption, the proliferation of Tweets as the fastest way to stay informed, and see which corporations are able to adapt to a philosophy of complete transparency. The reality is already there though and any enterprise that attempts to fight open public communication is doomed to lose the battle.Earlier this year I gave my mangers copies (digitally of course to save the trees) of a book entitled “Transparency, how great Leaders Create a Culture of Candor” if you have not read it, I recommend going to the library and reading at least the first three chapters, it tells a tale worth noting.