David Terrar
David heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting as well as advising on Cloud based solutions for accounting, content, collaboration, and web publishing. He is Chair of the UK's Intellect Software as a Service Group, a director of EuroCloud UK, on the governance board of the Cloud Industry Forum and a regular speaker at social media and Cloud Computing events including chairing London's Cloud Computing World Forum in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He has been appointed to the governance board of the Cloud Industry Forum. David organizes London Wiki Wednesdays, was one of the founders of CreativeCoffee Club and was part of the team that started Amplified (the Network of Networks).
Social Business needs a Cnut
Careful with that spelling (for some reason I preferred it to Canute or Kanute). Here is my premise. I think, like Clay Shirky, that we are living in a period of transformation rivalling the changes in society triggered by the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, photography, film, television, or the start of the Internet [...]
Bloggers, wannabes and the Zen of Blogging
Last Thursday I sampled the latest incarnation of the London Bloggers Meetup, as organized by Andy Bargery and friends. This meetup has been running for years, but it was my first time. What sparked my interest was a combination of meeting Andy at a Social Medial Week London event in January, the sheer numbers that [...]
Inspiration to get "social media" things Done
Back at the end of February I was struggling to complete a post about Social Media Week London, and I put a plea out to Twitter for some motivation (or to be shamed in to finishing it). @iamcreative aka Helen Harrop used her art as an incentive and promised me one of her doodle’s if [...]
Dachis Business Summit – you know, the Social one!
Now look. I have a real problem with the term “Social Business” as it’s being used by Dachis and IBM and others. However, let me put that to one side for another post later this week, but it’s a thread that starts here and runs through my thoughts on the London edition of the Dachis [...]
Living with iPad
Just before Christmas I joined in with the iPad crowd. The last straw was an XBRL event at ICAEW back in November when 5 of my colleagues who were speaking or supporting Twinfield at the show all had iPads and I didn’t. I started to look seriously at the tablet concept to see how it [...]
Social Media Week London – more out than in
Earlier this month, starting February 7, Social Media Week ran in 9 cities, with plenty of events running in London. I watched some of the live streams from Likeminds based events that sounded very good in terms of content although they hit some broadcast problems, kept in touch via the Twitter hashtag and then I [...]
On Twitter I’m 4 years old
Back on Valentine’s day 2007 I signed up to this weird short messaging thing that posted your status updates on a web page and sent them as SMS messages to your mobile phone – it was called Twitter. At that stage it had been going for almost a year very quietly somewhere – Jack Dorsey [...]
Cloud is at an inflection point, but let’s get things clear
At the start of 2011 a number of things are happening in the market, and particularly the UK, that mean Cloud Computing is at an important inflection point. The Cloud is about to become a mainstream approach to be considered not just by CIOs, IT departments of larger companies and the tech savvy early adopters, but for the average business woman and man in the street too.
More than just another microblogging tool – tibbr
Earlier this week I attended the UK launch event for just another Twitter style microblogging tool for the enterprise like Chatter or Yammer or Signals inside SocialText. This one’s called tibbr. Some people would have been underwhelmed and said “so what?”, but I got excited – I can see some huge potential here, and I’d [...]
London Wiki Wednesday – enterprise taster for Social Media Week
London Wiki Wednesday, the evening meetup for wiki geeks, business geeks and anyone wanting to discuss the use of social media technology inside their organisation is restarting for 2011 this Wednesday February 2nd – 18:15 onwards for a 19:00 start at NYK Shipping near Moorgate. Back in 2007 and 2008 we had almost monthly sessions [...]
Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?
Last week Sage, the UK’s biggest accountancy software supplier, finally released their first real online accounting solution. It looks like a proper SaaS or Cloud offering, unlike the hosted Online 50 product sold through a few resellers from 6 years ago, or their previous failed attempt of SageLive in 2009. I would argue that because [...]
Old media, new media and presentation skills changing the face of British Politics
A complex equation of old media influence, new media influence, and plain old fashioned presentation skills are in the process of changing British Politics forever. I don’t usually get in to political issues here (and please note my disclosure at the end), but there are some important lessons to learn from the UK’s first General [...]
SOMESSO/Headshift Social Business Summit – a meeting of minds
I’ve been a regular at every SOMESSO event so far, and Lee Bryant kindly invited me to the latest incarnation last Thursday – a joint SOMESSO and Headshift one day Social Business Summit. Sorting out a very embarrassing attack of the ave.exe virus delayed me enough that morning to miss the two keynotes from Jeff [...]
Twitter is 4 today
A few months back on the 19th of November 2009 NESTA, as part of their Silicon Valley comes to the UK sequence of events, televised a discussion called “Social Media: A Force for Good?“. The panel was our very own national treasure, actor, QI master and twitterphile Stephen Fry, Biz Stone the Founder and Chief [...]
