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When online communities go to work

When online communities go to work

By Dion Hinchcliffe on March 22, 2010

While the debate continues on about whether consumer social networking is an effective model for how we should run our organizations in the future, one under-appreciated online phenomenon is quietly and steadily remaking the very notion of business itself.

The world of online communities has evolved with social computing to become one of the most powerful new models for getting work done. Read my exploration of “When online communities go to work.”

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogs, Business Models, Community, community management, Crowdsourcing, Customer Community, Customer Self-Service, Digital Strategy, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Grassroots Community, Innovation marketplace, Prediction markets, Products, Right To Remix, social computing, Social CRM, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Wikis

Fixing IT in the cloud computing era

Fixing IT in the cloud computing era

By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 7, 2010

The reality of cloud computing as it exists today already offers significant potential to IT departments that want to cut costs, lighten their infrastructure footprint, and adopt agile new technologies. Whether it’s private clouds or public ones, all signs point towards it being one of the top new approaches for enterprise IT for 2010. It’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Customer Self-Service, E-Commerce, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, mashups, SaaS, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, ZDNet

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