Net Neutrality, Are We Losing the Battle?
I was working on some more research on business model innovation the other day and as I thought about the role of the Internet in business model disruptions over the past 15+ years, I couldn’t keep my mind from wondering back to something that has troubled me for the past couple of weeks, the proposed […]
How We Gave Up Control Over The Social Web
A short but pithy piece over the weekend by Dave Winer titled “Why the Web 2.0 model is obsolete” got me thinking about where we’ve ended up with social media after nearly ten years. Blogs, wikis, and other tools of easily shared self-expression from the early days have given away in recent years to a […]
6 Ways The Pundits Are Dazed and Confused About Google Reader and RSS
One of the you-betcha-surefire Pundit strategies is that when something is getting a lot of heat, like the current flap over Google dropping Google Reader, you can get a lot of attention by disagreeing with the crowd. You want to do so in the most colorful possible way, in fact. It’s a common form of […]
Twitter’s Biggest Problem: Brevity
There are many rumblings these days about Twitter’s recent changes blocking LinkedIn from putting Tweet’s into their streams. Lots of different reactions from various folks: – From Twitter’s perspective, they’re trying to deliver “a more consistent user experience.” We can paraphrase that one as, “We can’t run ads if you don’t come to our site, […]
Showing Up to Share: From Fear to Fun
During the 1990s, a recession gave rise to a series of popular belt-tightening management edicts that consultants vowed would bring our economy back from the brink by establishing predictable revenue streams and operational efficiencies. Management gurus such as Michael Hammer led the charge with his audacious howl writing in the Harvard Business Review, “Don’t automate! […]
Responding in "Social Web" Time
When we talk about the impact of the social web, social business, social CRM, consumerization of IT…almost anything that has to do with the changing business environment, the topic that universally comes up is the change in people’s expectations. This applies to employees, who want a user experience for the enterprise that is as “good” […]
My 2008 Ideas for LinkedIn Are Still Good: Maybe Google+ Will Do Them.
I got to thinking about LinkedIn this morning largely because I was annoyed with them. I received a request to link from someone this morning. The name was vaguely familiar–about the level of friend of a friend sort of familiar. So I went to their profile to try to figure out who it was and […]
Some Social Media is Toxic to Productivity: Google+, Twitter, and Facebook
This post is on behalf of the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Do you struggle with productivity some days? Have you discovered that one of the secrets is to eliminate distractions? If your answer is yes to both, then you’ll understand where I’m coming from with this post. After having spent some time with Google+, it finally […]
When Will Your Job Be Consumerized?
It’s become all the rage to talk about the Consumerization of IT in the last few years. There are a lot of definitions of what the term means. Those who are looking to downplay it somewhat will toss out the idea that it’s copying consumer web technology into business software. One gets the idea that […]
