I recently spent the weekend at a unique event that brought founders, entrepreneurs and investors together. I was fortunate enough to spend time with the original pioneer of social networking – Andrew Weinreich, the founder and original CEO of Six...
For anyone involved in the IT industry, they know how important M2M is within a majority of business operations and the many benefits any organization can see when implementing these types of solutions. Opening its doors in 2009, ThingWorx touts i...
In 2002, I was having a budget conversation with my CFO. I was general manager of the online store and we were discussing my requests for FTEs, technology upgrades, and marketing spend. The CFO asked me, “this is an online store…why do we need to ...
As Facebook approaches its public offering, CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is making one thing very clear. In other words, your business needs to be social by design. Virtually every business in every industry needs to redefine itself around soci...
A report published last week illuminates just how some organizations are using social tools inside and outside their enterprise and what results they’re seeing, and it’s worth a read. The report “When Social Meets Business Real Work Gets Done” sho...
I find myself in conversations about social media and its implications occasionally. And I mean: off-the-web, real-life discussions. Usually one of the pivot points is about whether or not it is a ‘good idea‘ to expose too many information about o...
Industry discussions on the value of activity streams have been going on for a few years. The concept is pretty straightforward. Social network sites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn in the consumer space as well as many enterprise social softwa...
Salesforce.com announced that it has acquired Toronto-based Rypple – a social performance management provider. Given my strand of fix-a-problem social software, I’ve always appreciated that Rypple injected the needed context to illustrate why coll...
In the words of Nova Spivack, we are approaching The Sharepocalypse. The real-time Web sounded like a great idea, but it has become impossible to manage. The success of social media has proven, ironically, to be its biggest challenge. The services...
Abstract Social Network Sites (SNS) create multiple affordances employees leverage during their employment lifecycle. In this Masters Thesis, I examine how a SNS helps employees during transitional periods such as: joining the company, moving into...
Today, SXSW Interactive makes the final large-scale programming announcement for the 2012 season. Many of the sessions listed below were received through the SXSW PanelPicker process. You can view the list of only the newly accepted proposals belo...
Geek fun: getting the full Flare Experience of unified communications in a tour of Avaya's executive briefing center. Geek fun: getting the full Flare Experience of unified communications in a tour of Avaya's executive briefing center. Geek fun: g...
