Perfect business cases for Social Business
Thanks to Oscar Berg for writing his No business case for Social Business It’s a good post and all true, although very few social media fans agreed with it – probably because it doesn’t give them what they want. As darks is the opposite of light, bad the opposite of good, and so on, I […]
Too much Social Me-dia going on
Hat tip to Sameer Patel for the tweet that led me to this: @lehawes Folks taking the Me in Social Me-dia too literally 🙂 I’ve noticed quite a bit of this lately. A few weeks ago, I unfollowed 20% of my follows because they either RT’ed themselves or their friends, and vice versa. Seeing a […]
The Death of the Feed
I remember in 2001 when I first heard about RSS. Back then, we still called them weblogs, and there were so few blogs that it was news when a new one started. For example, I distinctly remember reading excitedly about a promising new VC blogger named Jeff Nolan from SAP Ventures. At first, I just […]
Big Twother is watching you
…so said Tamsen McMahon on April 7th. Funny as it is, there’s a typo in the tweet – did or can you spot it? I did, and couldn’t resist: It’s “its” and not “it’s” > RT @tamadear: (…) your impression of a company and it’s representatives. To wit, typos on presentation slides. Caught in the […]
The Schmarketing MQ
With the above picture hardly legible on purpose, let me tell you a small story. Three months ago I was contacted by Derek Singleton with a question about a poll on his company site. I liked the company, liked the site, liked the poll, so wrote a small post about it This week, Hunter Richards […]
Wirearchy – preferred by entrepreneurs
A good while ago Jon Husband introduced me to the concept of Wirearchy. With the benefit of hindsight, Wirearchy is an (emerging) organizing principle for this new environment in which interconnected networks of people carry out the full range of human activities, …. Â commerce, work, research, education, gossip, news. was a well-chosen description of […]
The emperor is dressed in fluffy Clouds
After reading too many tweets, tweetups, events, papers and products about Cloud Integration, I decided to rant blog on this phenomenon. In my very first post on this blog, How Cloud computing will drive Enterprise Integration, I talked about a similar thing, and fortunately that was May 2009 but now applications are appearing and it’s […]
A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition
I was attended on Twitter to this thoughtless, clumsy, mindless piece by Peter Sayer on PCWorld: Capgemini Consulting, a specialist in strategy and transformation, is about to transform its own strategy for the second time in two years. To cope with the change, the company plans to recruit up to 1,000 staff this year, predominantly […]
Social Business Revolution
Social Business (R)evolution by Martijn Linssen (sample) The current world is abuzz about Social. Social networks, social media, Social Business: all things social. People, Twitterati and even a small number of companies embrace the diverse ideas and notions of Social, trying to sell and implement them That movement is a natural counter reaction to […]
Influencers? You mean under the Influence?
Thanks to Zoli Erdos for the last bit to the title. I’ve gotten worked up a bit about the Influence game in general and Klout in particular, resulting in a few posts of which “Klout. Nail. Coffin. Who cares?” was the last one. This post is a bit about Klout, but not really (wouldn’t want […]
If You’re API And You Know It
One of the most difficult things I am finding in this fractious time of cloud evolution is to define a plan (with any great authority) on absolutely anything strategic. Today’s fast-moving combination of business demands, architectural thought processes, technology shifts, and the sheer number of options within the vendor ecosystem is changing at such a pace […]
Information Everywhere: How Diigo, Chrome And Mobile Is Helping Me
Ever since CloudAve’s Zoli Erdos introduced me to Diigo (see previous CloudAve coverage), I have been a fan of the service and now I am a paid premier customer. It has been a long time since I wrote about Diigo here and, recently, they have released some nifty tools to aid knowledge workers. I thought […]
The simple secret to knowledge curation
Of all the Social Tools out there, most if not all of it is free text to the power of three. Notwithstanding the huge progress made – getting conversations in writing and saving them for eternity – it gets increasingly harder to make heads or tails of them. Why favour conversation or thread A over […]
Tibbr – the revolution starts right here
Today I attended the launch of Tibco’s tibbr in London. A perfectly short and great event of a few hours with excellent food, drinks, very interesting speakers and some great panel remarks – not in that order. Ram Menon, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing presented a very clear overview emphasizing the punch-line: when information […]
The Follow-or-Not Flowchart
I few days ago I published my “To Tweet or ReTweet flowchart“. I think it is time to publish my “To Follow or Not To Follow” flowchart as well, as I find that I hardly make any exception at all on my internal, unwritten rules for deciding to follow a new follower or not. This […]
