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Ross Mayfield

Ross Mayfield

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CEO and co-founder of Pingpad, making social productivity as instant, simple and social as messaging. Previously VP at SlideShare (acquired by LinkedIn), Co-Founder, CEO at Socialtext (the enterprise social software pioneer) and RateXchange (a B2B bandwidth exchange)

SlideShare Zipcasts for Real Time Collaboration

SlideShare Zipcasts for Real Time Collaboration

By Ross Mayfield on February 16, 2011

A long time ago Tim Oren scribbled this on a napkin to help explain a little of what he learned about collaboration. We put wikis in the top left, email in the bottom left and IM in the bottom right. He described that at the top right is a collaboration sweet spot, but a place […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged slideshare, socialsoftware

A Letter from the Chairman

A Letter from the Chairman

By Ross Mayfield on February 3, 2011

I co-founded Socialtext in 2002, and through eight-years of hard work pioneered the hottest category of Enterprise software. An old Estonian saying says “the work will show you the way.” And what has kept me going through this journey is great people and a continual source of new opportunities. As I’ve written before, startups always […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Entrepreneurship, OpenSocial, slideshare, socialtext, startups

Distributed Talent, Beyond Silicon Valley

Distributed Talent, Beyond Silicon Valley

By Ross Mayfield on October 14, 2010

Om has a great post on Silicon Valley and the Talent Crunch. With angel funding booming and companies like Facebook, Twitter, Zynga growing like bad good talent and real estate are growing scarce again in the Valley. Yes, we cycle through boom and bust — but what I don’t understand is why we don’t learn […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, distributed team, Facebook, global team, Silicon Valley, socialtext, Twitter, zynga

How to Bootstrap Your PR

How to Bootstrap Your PR

By Ross Mayfield on September 21, 2010

Inc. Magazine interviewed me on How to Bootstrap your Public Relations. There are, of course, new opportunities and challenges given how technology is disrupting media: “When you had to go through mass media, there’s really a handful of media outlets…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship, marketing, media, Public relations | 2 Responses

Growth is the #NewTwitter

Growth is the #NewTwitter

By Ross Mayfield on September 14, 2010

For many the NewTwitter is about a new user experience. Or Twitter eating its client partners for lunch while adding content partners. But for me NewTwitter can be summed up in this slide: You’ve probably seen a lot of charts…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged growth, Hockey stick, NewTwitter, Social network, Twitter

Not Social

Not Social

By Ross Mayfield on July 29, 2010

When Pfizer launched the first social media channel on SlideShare for a regulated industry, it was met with industry applause, but also some controversy. Case in point, and article Pharma News: Pfizer Channel criticized as ‘not social.’ Various criticisms have been raised against the channel, however, including the fact that it does not allow comments […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Facebook, FDA, Pfizer, Pharmaceutical industry, slideshare, Social Media, socialsoftware, Twitter

Wikileaks and the Plumbing of Journalism

Wikileaks and the Plumbing of Journalism

By Ross Mayfield on July 26, 2010

The web has way of asking big questions of society. And right now WikiLeaks is asking very big questions. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes the recent release of 90k documents about the Afghanistan war thusly, in a SPIEGEL interview: Assange:…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged afghanistan, journalism, media, Newspaper, Wiki, Wikileaks

Barcamp Channel on SlideShare

Barcamp Channel on SlideShare

By Ross Mayfield on June 1, 2010

I had the dubious honor of hosting the first Barcamp in Palo Alto, with a Socialtext wiki and office, of course. Since then, Barcamp has been a worldwide phenomenon that has turned events on its head. The Open Space methodology…

Posted in Business | Tagged barcamp, slideshare, socialtext, Wiki | 1 Response

Cloud Appliance Comes to the Enterprise

Cloud Appliance Comes to the Enterprise

By Ross Mayfield on May 17, 2010

Software Appliances were initially created for high performance network and security infrastructure with lower administration costs. Over time the Appliance model moved up the stack from email appliances to a diverse set of business applications. This trend has continued in parallel to the rise of SaaS and Cloud Computing. SaaS Appliances provide pre-configured, self-contained applications […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged appliance, cloud appliance, Cloud Computing, Enterprise resource planning, SaaS, software as a service, tco, Total cost of ownership | 1 Response

Business Video on SlideShare

Business Video on SlideShare

By Ross Mayfield on May 5, 2010

SlideShare launched support for business video today: video on slideshare View more videos from Jonathan Boutelle. We already posted some videos into the Socialtext Channel. You can see others by PARC, Eric Ries, the Sustainable Brands events and more. Web2expo,…

Posted in Business | Tagged slideshare, Video

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