This has little to do with Enterprise 2.0. But its a celebration of open constructs and transparency around a topic that’s significantly larger than the business of social computing – how we vote. I’m thrilled to see this report in Wired Magazine that OSDV – the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, has officially released the […]
Yet again, thanks to Eric Norlin, a bunch of us get the opportunity to escape to Denver next month to talk about what’s next in social software. At the Defrag conference next month on November 11th and 12th. I’m going to spare you a diatribe about why its a great event and distill it down […]
The E 2.0 Service ‘Appliance’: Hinchcliffe and Co., Asuret and Socialtext get into bed

This morning brings a new relationship in the Enterprise 2.0 Services arena: Hinchcliffe and Co, an enterprise ‘web 2.0’ consulting and education provider, Asuret, an enterprise risk mitigation software and services provider and Socialtext, a social software provider join forces to deliver the first stack of services and software to take organizations through planning and […]
Two interesting news items over the past week – one consumer related and the other, enterprise social computing. First: this article on eMarketer titled: “Behavioral Targeting Misses Mark” quotes a study by researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of California Berkeley School of Law and the Annenberg Public Policy Center: “Contrary to what […]
A quick shout out to my friends Oliver Marks, Dennis Howlett and Vinnie Mirchandani, and to R Ray Wang and Frank Scavo on the launch Enterprise Advocates. This signals a new trend in the consulting and analyst landscape, characterized by loose federations of both independent consultants and firms that collaborate as advocates for the end […]
A significant portion of my work over the last decade (both as part of the marchFIRST/ Mitchell Madison team and later, my own practice) has been in the area of accelerating performance for business partner networks at large organizations. As is always the case, one of the outcomes of this economic downturn is going to […]
Vinnie Mirchandani of deal architect fame graciously invited me to contribute to his guest column ‘Technology and Hobby’ on his New Florence New Renaissance Blog. This very popular column covers the hobbies of some of the heavy hitters in the technology business with a focus on the role of tech. Some of folks who write […]