How to Build Online Relationships into Meaningful Networks
I was waiting for my son’s basketball game to start this morning and with the morning’s emails all drained I turned to Twitter and saw this Tweet from Marshall Kirkpatick Test: open your twitter stream, look at the 1st item in it, think of something to say in response, say it. Theory: it’s really that […]
Neutron in Production: Work in Progress or Ready for Prime Time?
Earlier this week, we hosted an OpenStack Meetup at the offices of our customer, EVault, here in San Francisco. Titled “Neutron Networking and SDN in Production,” the Meetup featured panelists from major contributors to Neutron and those offering open source plugins that leverage Neutron. (SiliconANGLE covered the event live, and a replay will be embedded […]
Alcatel Jumps In With Network Services On The Cloud
Alcatel-Lucent (previous CloudAve coverage), a leading vendor in mobile and networking space, last week announced Alcatel-Lucent Cloudband, set of network services offered through the cloud. Networking is a significant part of cloud infrastructure but it has attracted much less media attention than its counterparts, compute and storage. Part of the reason is somewhat of a […]
Talk With Everyone
Reading Mark Suster‘s excellent post, “Why You Need To Take 50 Coffee Meetings” brought to mind one of my personal corollaries: Talk with everyone. I’m a relatively small-time investor. It’s a documented fact, and I don’t try to hide it. But that means that I need to deliver value beyond money if I’m going to […]
How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur
I get a lot of junk email that I normally ignore, but this one ticked me off enough to write about: Major Changes for Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop Changes? To what? I’ve never heard about this program before. Lowering the price of the Workshop by $500 to $1,000 Ouch! Lowering? And then it’s still $1,000? […]
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 […]
Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks
If you use Twitter and think it is a valuable service then you’re probably tired of the steady stream of your friends who tell you it’s just a fad and they don’t feel compelled to join. They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.” They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly […]
Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud – Apply to Present / Discount Tix Here
Under the Radar is Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc. This year’s conference in Mountain View, CA on April 16th will focus on Commercializing the Cloud – that’s a fairly wide definition, and one that perfectly mashes with our focus […]
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 […]
Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 2 of 2
Yesterday I blogged part 1 of my report on the Social Media in the Enterprise event that Alan Patrick and I cooked up (at Tuttle) to inject some enterprise related content in to this week’s “London Social Media Week“. We had 8 speakers (originally 10, but Will McInnes of NixonMcInnes had travel problems, and Dr […]
EuroCloud UK members making sense of Cloud standards and security
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil Wainewright, the panel experts were Dr. Guy Bunker, independent consultant and blogger, formerly Symantec’s chief scientist and co-author of ENISA‘s cloud […]
Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem
What is it? As our contribution to London Social Media Week we are putting on Social Media in Enterprises on Tuesday Feb 2nd from 6 till 9pm at the Cass Business School in London (map is over here). Why? Well, at Tuttle last Friday Alan Patrick and I realised that there was no event for […]
Connective intelligence on politics and news at #1pound40
Last Wednesday was the latest incarnation of Amplified, the network of networks that a group of us started last year, and which has grown and evolved in to a grass roots, non-profit movement of likeminded practitioners in many fields connected together by the social media topic. The £1.40 Unconference, was hosted in excellent surroundings at […]
Swiss Re – One of the Smart Companies
On Monday In Zurich during SOMESSO‘s Web 2.0 University™ based masterclass delivered by Jim Benson, one of the attendees related her company’s adoption of Social Media. I was soaking up the material and offering Jim a little help, as we have just started to represent Hinchcliffe and Web 2.0 University™ in the UK. One of […]
Comments are the New Black
By Mark Suster on December 13, 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferencesand how to connect with people on social networks. These posts encouraged groups of people to provide their thoughts on these topics. As usual we began a dialog with lots of people sharing their […]
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