SAP Innovation: Social Networking at the Service of the French Public Sector
France has a plan to put the latest 2.0 technology at the service of its citizens called Le France Numérique 2012. It outlines how the government intends to: Provide everybody access to digital networks and services Develop and provide new digital services Grow the number and usage of digital services by companies, government departments, [...]
How to Connect on Social Networks
I sometimes think that certain advice is BGO (blinding glimpse of the obvious) and doesn’t warrant mentioning. But then people’s actions tell me otherwise. I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that I have this done I feel I need to say some words about connecting on [...]
Social Media is the New Collaboration
When we look at corporate frameworks and how we use collaboration and innovation across corporate boundaries, including collaborating with other companies to get a product out to market we are looking at social networking. We just have a fancy new label for it, but in the longer run, what we saw as collaborative teaming and [...]
The Emotional Investment of FriendFeed
Johnny Worthington who is one of the more dynamic and interesting people on FriendFeed issued an open letter to the developers of FriendFeed to find out what is happening with the web site. Many of the FriendFeed users (myself included) have an emotional and time investment in the system that is not easily replaced or [...]
Put a Filter On It, Please
Mark Evans over on Mark Evans Tech talks about people needing to put some serious filters on their own social networking. While in general social networking amongst our friends can look like a really bad edition of the Jerry Springer Show (and even Jerry might be offended by some of the stuff out there), there [...]
Cloud Computing and the Dearth of Experts
Recent technological changes and developments always lead to a lack of experts in a particular field. Social Networking and cloud computing are both facing this “lack of experts” with many people claiming expertise where very little really exists. There are excellent experts in both cloud computing and in social media, but given the lack of [...]
Using Social Networking for Your Startup
Over the last month we have been working on building in social networking for our startup, and it is just now beginning to draw some attention. This is a good thing as social networking is a series of processes and systems that people need to keep on top of making them work. Here is what [...]
Unmasker: Who Has the Most Sycophantic Profile on Twitter
For anyone who is familiar with Tweeting Too Hard, Unmasker will help you work out who is honest, and who is just simply stacking their Twitter with simple BS keywords that have no relationship to who they are or what they are really looking to do. Corvida over at Everything Twitter talked about the web [...]
Top 10 Reasons Never to Friend Your Boss Online
Nothing against bosses, they perform a vital function in many organizations. While I know that some people will argue that statement, and do so eloquently, there are some solid reasons why you never ever want to friend your boss on any of the social networks. Here are the top 10 reasons why you never want [...]
Using Social Networking in Your Business. Case Study: Dairy Queen
Who does not like ice cream? Dairy Queen is one of those companies that you would not think would profit from the use of social networking, but the reality is that they have done very well by social networking and building on a fan base to keep the customers coming in and getting tasty treats. [...]
SAP and The 2.0 Adoption Council
As part of my role helping evangelize the use of social media within SAP , I am a proud member of the 2.0 Adoption Council, a group devoted to creating and sharing best practices in Enterprise 2.0 adoption (see the “Web 2.0 in SAP” section of this site for more information about internal Web 2.0 [...]
Buying Popularity Online via USocial
Well you know this had to happen, since you can still purchase Digg’s, and a ton of other forms of popularity in social networking it is not surprising that an enterprising company would come up with a way to allow people to purchase Facebook friends. USocial is the company that will sell you Digg votes [...]
How Collaborative Networks will Replace Social Networks in the Enterprise
Most of us have delved into the world of social networking. Those that haven’t are missing an opportunity to connect with the people you care about from around the world. For me the opportunity started with a company called Zero Degrees (later purchased by IAC) where a dear friend of mine named Jas Dhillon opened [...]
It's Gonna Take a Long, Long Time
The other day I helped run a session for a large multinational technology company looking to encourage social media within its organisation – all credit to them, they know they need to move in this direction and sought advice about how best to do it. I prepared a short presentation and, being the cloudy sort [...]
Launch: Silicon Valley 2009 – Call for Startups
Startup Entrepreneurs who did not make it to the recent Under the Radar event, here’s your second chance: join us at Launch: Silicon Valley 2009, co-presented by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft. In fact it will be more than a second chance: while the UtR event focused specifically on Cloud Computing, Launch 2009 is [...]
