All posts in web 2.0


Making Micro-Services Markets Within the Enterprise

March 10, 2010 by Billives
<!--break--> Here is an interesting idea. Marc Andersen, my former Renaissance colleague, posted recently on his blog on applying "product service systems" to corporate environments.  He was inspired by a Boston Globe article, The Leased Life, on how people should share products across their communities. Many people... [read more]

Evolution of every medium

January 2, 2010 by Seth Godin
<!--break--> Technicians who invented it, run it Technicians with taste, leverage it Artists take over from the technicians MBAs take over from the artists Bureaucrats drive the medium to banality TV used to be driven by the guys who knew how to run cameras and transmitters. Then it got handed off to the Ernie... [read more]

SNCR Research Reveals Social Media’s Impact on Business and Decision Making

November 18, 2009 by Don Bulmer
<!--break--> The results are in! I am thrilled to share key findings from research that Vanessa DiMauro and I conducted over the summer called The New Symbiosis of Professional Networks.  The research was conducted as part of our 2009 fellowship with the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR).  As... [read more]

Who will be the makers if computing becomes a utility?

September 20, 2009 by KateCarruthers
<!--break--> Spoke at the Bunbury ACS Chapter the other night (g’day to @Moist & @nezzle) – about the future of computing and the impact of social computing. We had a really interesting discussion about privacy (and the death thereof, as I have been prone to argue) and the possible futures arising from the social computing... [read more]

Mixing Old and New School Communication

July 2, 2009 by Billives
<!--break--> Tom Davenport recently posted a nice piece, Why 1.5 Is Greater Than 2.0, that discussed the benefits of mixing old and media. Always the rock of reason, Tom wrote that asking which is better -- Web 1.0 or Web 2.0? --  is actually a false dichotomy. They complement each other. I would agree. Enterprise 2.0 brings a... [read more]

Social Media is Not Sexy

June 28, 2009 by GavinHeaton
<!--break--> While Web 2.0 and social media tools provide great opportunities for businesses from a branding and marketing point of view, there are also a raft of other opportunities which are easily overlooked. The very same benefits that can be achieved through your social media efforts can also be applied across your enterprise –... [read more]

Startups and Web 2.0: New Weapons for Gaining the Competitive Sales Advantage

May 6, 2009 by Peter Auditore
<!--break--> Following on my colleague Don Bulmer’s excellent post this week, our discussion revolves around the new knowledge platforms that Web 2.0 provides today’s modern day sales person. Before the coming of the Internet, selling and marketing often involved a difficult and painstaking task that involved what salespeople called “... [read more]

Social Networks and B2P

May 3, 2009 by Don Bulmer
<!--break--> I was recently invited to submit an article for Connect-World Asia Pacific.  Connect-World is a series of magazines that offers a forum where the highest-level decision makers in the telecommunications and information technology sectors discuss their opinions about the impact of technology on Global and... [read more]

Small Business Owners: Your Customer Service IS Your Marketing!

April 28, 2009 by DJFrancis
<!--break--> Remember Yakov Smirnoff? He was big in the ’80s and used to tell jokes like this: In America, you can always find a party. In Russia, The Party can always find you! See the switch-eroo there? Clever, right? I was thinking about that after I read the Network Solutions report I referenced in my last post about whether... [read more]

Google’s YouTube Symphony Challenges Old World Dinosaurs: Where is Silicon Valley Now?

April 22, 2009 by Peter Auditore
<!--break--> Just last week Google and some of the world’s leading musician’s performed what could be the first global symphony orchestra concert at the Mecca of music, Carnegie Hall in NYC.  For the most part, critics were amazed at how this all came together last Wednesday night, April 15, 2009.  But some dinosaur-like... [read more]

Thoughts on innovation & revolution

April 12, 2009 by KateCarruthers
<!--break--> Innovation always comes unexpectedly and from the periphery. Once I see an innovation it always seems obvious - except that it was not obvious until I saw it. The iPhone is a great example of this - sure it is currently less than 5% of handsets on the market, but it has radically shifted the entire concept of what a... [read more]

British Web 2.0 Invasion

March 31, 2009 by Margot Heiligman
<!--break--> If your business has anything to do with online services or Web 2.0, you’ll be pleased to know that there is a conference and tradeshow taking place this week in San Francisco, CA, USA, for everyone who is passionate about the topic.   Whether its Web 2.0 marketing, design strategies, or development paradigms... [read more]