I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the awesome Net:Work Conference by the GigaOM Network in San Francisco last week. Net:Work offered a wide spectrum of important topics that together projects what the future of work will look like: collaboration in context, remote work, mobility and cloud. And its impact both on the […]
At its’ annual Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com announced a version of Chatter, its collaboration application as a free utility. There’s lots of opining on Twitter and the blogs about how enterprise 2.0 start ups are going to be in serious trouble as Chatter steam rolls into their markets. There’s no question that Chatter is going to […]
I started engaging on the social web exactly two years ago. Unlike most “veterans”, when I dipped my toes into the proverbial participatory pond, I started the other way around. Twitter first, then blog. Which might seem inconsequential but there’s an interesting dynamic there. I don’t want to get all Match.com on you but getting […]
On Dec 2nd, distinguished faculty members from Babson College (my Alma Mater) – MBA Dean Raghu Tadepalli and Dr. P.J. Guinan, professor of technology, operations, and information management will present research on the use of Social Media in the Enterprise in San Francisco. Ragu is someone I’ve come to know recently and I keep in […]
About this time last year, I threw out a prediction that in 2010 Telcos will get into the Enterprise 2.0 business by bundling social software solutions for the SMB space. In December of 2009, I said: Telcos will start looking at picking up affordable SaaS Enterprise 2.0 suites. Why? As mindshare starts to get split […]
Effective today, the Sovos Group is happy to announce the creation of the Constellation Research Group. Sovos is one of the founding members of this new entity. Constellation brings together leading consultants and research analysts in the Enterprise space (bios below) that cover critical areas of business strategy and technology research. This new collaborative model […]
A few months ago I opined on the difference between Innovation and Innovation Cultures here, on this blog. It was a riff inspired by a post by Pat Lencioni on Bloomberg/Businessweek that largely dismissed Innovation programs, saying": As heretical as that may seem to those who want to believe that “innovation is everyone’s business,” consider […]