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Welcome to a new world where only the connected will survive!

Wikinomics Social networking and web 2.0 are changing the rules of the game and companies who recognise this and adapt their organisations accordingly will be on the path to high performance. If you have not had yet the opportunity to do so, I would highly recommend that you read Don Tapscott, Founder and Chairman of New Paradigm (now nGenera), most recent bestseller “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything”. This excellent book highlights ...

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The Power of Social Media, Volunteers & Hurricane Gustav

Early yesterday afternoon I put together a compilation of links to information on Gustav that @WayneSutton had started. It was intriguing to watch volunteers come together using social media tools to prepare for the hurricane. Andy Carvin set up a ning & started coordinating the volunteer efforts. His ning became the Gustav Information Center. There was [...]
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Yahoo Finally Got Back Into My Daily Folder

The very first folder in my browser toolbar is called "Daily" and it's the folder I right click and choose "Open All in Tabs" first thing in the morning when I do my email / web / blog drill.  For a long time my.yahoo.com was in there; I took it out about a year ago because I was getting all the information I wanted from other places.

Last week, Alan Warms from Yahoo sent me an email about the new Yahoo Political Dashbo...

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Using Social Networking to Prepare for Hurricane Gustav

I was doing some things in MyBlogLog.com and saw Wayne Sutton’s collaborative effort towards building community around those preparing for the hurricane. He is using Twitter but it’s being broadcast in his MyBlogLog stream which allows me to read it as a set. (I have 1500 people in Twitter & the noise level is high.) There’s [...]
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More Mashups

Yesterday, Raju Vegesna (of Zoho fame) asked me whether we'd consider using Zoho Share for sharing all the presentations that will be given during the conference. My answer was: "sure, we'd love to, but only if you support single sign-on with Google Apps." Quite frankly, I was expecting his answer to be either "sorry, we can't do that," or "sure, we'll build it for you." But to my surprise, such an integration is already implemented, as illu...

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Next generation direct marketing with decision management

Elana Anderson had a great post on direct marketing while I was on vacation -Next Generation Campaign Management.

She starts off with three great principles:

  • Listen to all information provided by customers and prospects — both explicit and implied.
  • Understand past and present information to determine the best possible market...
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End Users at the Office 2.0 Conference

This year, executives from many large end user organizations will speak at the Office 2.0 Conference, including GE, Stanford Univeristy, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Xerox, and Wachovia. Our Agenda is almost complete now, and our demo scheduling system should be released sometime next week. We're also shipping the first HP 2133 Mini-Note PC devices to paying attendees today. Registrations are going strong, and the hotel is almost sold out....

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Enterprise 2.0 is Innovation


Spoke at the Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals conference in North Sydney yesterday - my slides are on slideshare - and was grateful for the opportunity to consider enterprise 2.0 adoption. Some really good questions from the floor (HT: @chieftech, @innotecture, @kdelarue) about how it relates to innovation prompted some further insights on my part.

The entire process of adopting enterprise 2.0 is an innovation activity. It is about .....
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Widgets, applets, snippets, games - the future for Apple iPhone

Apple took $1m per day in sales of apps at its Appstore on iTunes since launching the new 3G iPhone. Steve Jobs says it’s going to create a $1billion business… well, he said it’d ‘crest at half a billion soon’, which is a nice way to describe the run-rate of takings…

What is significant about this new marketplace isn’t just the valuation positive for Apple, it’s the way it gives a new lease of life to a whole load of entrepreneurs. Last.fm loo...

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Cool link about using LinkedIn to build your small business

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I have been a member of LinkedIn for a couple of years, but have not used it at all to market my business.  I just got a short email from the service that shared a video of a small business owner , Sasha Strauss from Innovation Protocol who has used it to generate lots of referrals.  I thought it was really interesting, and when my book is done (ahhh!  less than 6 weeks!), I will definitely look into using LinkedIn more effec...