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).
Connecting Appian, Rinde and Wardley with the intersection of process and social
I’ve been pushing the concept of using social technologies for collaboration and connections both inside and outside of business to make companies more effective since early 2006. The naming has changed from web 2.0 to enterprise 2.0 to social business, but the concept is the same. However, when some areas of technology like smart phones […]
Apple’s flanking move with iPad Mini and life after Steve
Last week’s Apple event has been widely reported in detail, but with a minimum of real analysis on the importance of the why, the how and the what being communicated. For me there were three significant aspects: Apple improving their leading position in the tablet business by making the leading product even better, as well […]
Why I’ve defected from BlackBerry to the Apple iPhone
After 6 years happily thumb tapping my way around my email and messages with the real keyboard of the BlackBerry smart phone platform I defected to the Apple iPhone back in July (even though the new iPhone 5 was imminent). It’s such a shame – I’ve been a big fan of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry […]
The Cloud’s 5 Key Challenges for the ISV CTO
Back on 26 April I was asked to present “5 Key Challenges for the ISV CTO and How to Beat Them!” at a Ciklum seminar for ISVs that intended to deliver a hype-free conversation among CTOs, Chief Technical Architects and other key executives grappling with the journey to the cloud. My slides for the session […]
Trash talk and FUD harms the Cloud industry
Over here we are anticipating this year’s Cloud Computing World Forumin London, but over in the US Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder and CEO since 1977, has pivoted his position on the Cloud along with “crossing a line” to trash key competitors. Elsewhere old guard software giants like IBM are mis-communicating the Cloud messages. How does […]
Social Business
After some soul searching I’ve just started updating my various personal profiles around the web to say I’m a social business evangelist rather than saying enterprise 2.0. I’ve got close to this before. I wanted to explain why now. For me that terminology change is a big deal because I’m not 100% comfortable with “social […]
The cultural divide on data protection – USA vs EU
We are several months past the 10 year anniversary of the September 11 (9/11) attacks, but one of the significant consequences of that event a decade ago highlights the cultural divide between the USA and Europe on data protection. Data privacy has been hitting the news recently because of Google’s changes in their terms and […]
Using the Cloud for personal productivity with Evernote
I’ve just made a significant switch in one of the main tools I use for my own personal productivity which highlights a key trend for the industry and all of us – the personal cloud. Whether it is for work or our personal lives we use desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, media players and tablets […]
The Cloud needs some standards (or a Code of Practice)
One of the big issues for a buyer today considering Cloud Computing is how do you choose a good Cloud provider from a bad one? Who do you trust? Maybe the Cloud Topic needs some standards? Well actually there are so many standards bodies and vendor groups that the picture is confused – something that […]
Social Business at IBM’s Hopper Collaboration Diner
Last week I was invited by IBM (and Ogilvy PR) to join in the collaboration debates at the Social Business Expo, a new strand of the Unified Communications Expo at Olympia . This is not an event I would normally attend, covering everything from phone handsets through VoIP to tele conferencing, but I’m sure the […]
Twinfield show their vision of the future of accounting
Two weeks ago I was part of a modest International stream as part of Twinfield‘s very impressive National Accountancy Day in The Netherlands. They have been running this Annual event for 6 years and it has grown from 30 attendees back in 2005 to 500 last year, and well over 600 attendees this time, along […]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire diverges the Tablet market
In his book The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin called divergence the driving force that creates a new species. Last week Amazon enhanced their Kindle range of e-readers, but also applied some divergence to the tablet market by extending in to a new sub-category of mobile tablet devices with the Kindle Fire. I think it’s […]
Why WordPress ISN’T A Good Choice For Your Website (Really?)
Last month I did a guest article for Jemima Gibbons monthly newsletter on Freshbusinessthinking.com about Social Media Monitoring and Analytics. In that same newsletter Nikki Pilkington argued why WordPress is a good choice for your website. I decided I wanted to argue, passionately, the opposite, and my article has just been published there this month. […]
Good for HP (with a but!)
Last week the IT industry had a major bombshell. HP announced it’s intention to get out of the PC business, drop it’s WebOS smartphone and TouchPad products and buy enterprise software company Autonomy. If you don’t recognize Autonomy they are a major success story born out of research at Cambridge University. Founded in 1996 they […]
Twinfield change partners for a new dance
I was delighted to hear, early yesterday, that cloud accounting software provider Twinfield was acquired by Wolters Kluwer. I have to disclose that my company, D2C, have been Twinfield’s UK partner since 2005 and so we have a vested interest in the success of the platform and some great customers and partnerships that have come […]
