Should you put "guru" or "thought leader" in your Twitter bio?
I’m a Twitter fan from the early days (which is only about 3 years – streuth!). For me it’s a key source of trusted information, a communication mechanism, and an important way for me to extend my various, overlapping networks of interest (amongst several other things). In recent weeks I’ve seen tweets from people worrying [...]
Shift Happens! revisited
Way back in August 2006 a teacher called Karl Fisch at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, USA created an 8 minute PowerPoint presentation with some music. It aimed to highlight the rate of change of the world we live in, and remixed content from David Warlick, Thomas Friedman, Ian Jukes, Ray Kurzweil and others. [...]
Social Media as Storytelling
The more I look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. A person can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better [...]
2.0 Adoption Warfare – can military tactics help?
A few weeks ago, as part of Social Media Week, Alan Patrick and I ran the very well received Social Media in Enterprise event (which we’ll run again!). It provided 8 different perspectives on collaboration in the enterprise using the new tools. Amongst the many issues raised in a night of some great discussion and [...]
Regenerated Content Streams and Tuning Out
Louis Gray touches on a great point over on his blog today about how information is regenerated not just by the people who follow us, but by the popularity that we carry. I want to focus on one portion of this because it touches back to many of the issues we face not just with [...]
Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating
That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible to get traction on the web site for some users because the way that the community [...]
Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 1 of 2
I blogged that Alan Patrick and I were running the only enterprise related event as part of this week’s “London Social Media Week“. Considering we only had the idea a week last Friday at Tuttle, and only promoted the thing with a few tweets, I’m both impressed and surprised that we had around 50 attendees [...]
Welcome to the Facebook Market Place
If you have not checked out the Facebook Market Place lately – now is probably a good time to do it. Originally opened in 2007, with a few odds and sods like the acquisition of Ooodle– the Facebook Market Place of today is a cross between Craig’s List, Amazon, and Career Builder. You can literally [...]
So what is next for my startup
Over the last six months we have been working on a process that will allow us to grow our company and take advantage of many of the new technologies that are coming out. My company sells comic books, but we have noticed that on eBook readers – certain kinds of comics look absolutely brilliant. So [...]
Google's Shot at the Waterline with China
Yesterday Google dropped the biggest corporate bombshell in recent memory with the announcement that they are reviewing their operations in China following a very sophisticated cyber attack against Google and some 20 other companies (including Rack Space) that targeted intellectual property and the Chinese dissident community. This has implications that go far beyond the explosion [...]
SAP Innovation: Enterprise Mashup Prototype, Rooftop Marketplace
Here’s a video explaining the new Rooftop Marketplace Prototype from SAP Research in Switzerland. It shows how you can easily wire together the outputs and inputs of different mashup widgets to create an application workflow. You can easily mix and match mapping, core SAP systems, SAP BusinessObjects analytics (Xcelsius), and the new 12Sprints collaboration environment, [...]
Use Social Networking to find your next job and love it
“Your job security no longer lies in having a job; it lies in knowing how to work the job market”. – @susanireland The attached file is Using social networking to find your next job and love it is meant to help people find their next job. This PDF is all about using Linkedin and other [...]
Thingamy with ESME points to where enterprise 2.0 is heading
Yesterday I got the “lowdown” on how Thingamy, which Sigurd Rinde describes as a “Work Processor”, has just been connected to ESME, the microsharing and collaboration platform. I believe the combination is a big step forward for Sig’s solution, as well as representing one of several approaches that signpost the direction of enterprise 2.0, or [...]
Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration – but have they got the branding right?
A month ago on Monday 7 December I was sitting in the London version of the CloudForce2 Partner Summit, and then stricken by a virus overnight, I watched Marc Benioff livestreamed for the 2 hours and 15 minutes of his keynote in the general customer session on the following day. It sounds like he did [...]
Competing with Pirates
One story my University Professor used to teach about the limitations of a corporation’s executive team was about a ship in the middle of the ocean. On the ship was a rough, brawny captain who was rather myopic and hard of hearing. The captain and crew followed the principles of majority rule on decisions about [...]
