Why Facebook entering the world of work is an advertising goldmine. #facebookatwork
So, Ingrid Lunden at TechCrunch announced that Facebook has finally entered the world of work. As far as the consumer market goes, think about it. Facebook is worth 212 billion dollars by having a strong hold on your actions, interests, and preferences from 5pm to 9am and some fraction of your work day. If only it could […]
Event Report: The Evolution And Maturation of @Tibbr at #Tucon2013, the Tibco User Conference
tibbr Continues To Show Momentum In Customer Adoption And Addition Of Key Enterprise Social Features On October 14th to 17th 2013, the Tibbr enterprise social crowd mingled with the core Tibco faithful at this year’s TUCON 2013 user conference in Las Vegas. (An analysis of the broader Tibco announcements can be found from my colleague […]
Yammer For Enterprise Social At The Canadian Cancer Society With @lvanderlip
My blogging has been pretty sparse lately, in part because I’ve been busier than usual for the summer and in part because I have an intimidating backlog of product reviews to get through. Tonight, however, I’m at a meetup of Knowledge Workers Toronto to hear Lisa Vanderlip of the Canadian Cancer Society (a charitable fund-raising […]
Startup Lessons: Marketing
This is the 4th installment in the Startup Lessons series I have been writing in the wake of my experience with Get Satisfaction. We are getting into the topics that are much more specific to Get Satisfaction, therefore I have an obligation to redact certain details that are confidential however in the spirit of shared […]
Moxie Tries to Change The Collaboration Game
OK, I am not going to assume you know this – so here it is: Moxie Software is a long-standing client (so are the competitors for the solution described here – I cannot escape that fact; I work in the industry I cover) and I worked with them on the strategy leading to this launch. […]
Microsoft Enterprise Apps: Good is the enemy of Great
Let me start off by saying if I was walking the halls of Convergence in New Orleans this week, I may have a somewhat more generous point of view. But I am not there so catching up on what colleagues are reporting. And it just reinforces what I have felt for a few years – […]
YamJam12
I spent the last couple of days attending Yammer’s first ever user conference in San Francisco along with an engaged set of Yammer customers and partners. The event had a lot of energy and particularly for a "1st" version, was…
Event Report: Preview 2 – The Exclusive Market Maker 1:1 Keynote Interviews At Constellation’s Connected Enterprise 2012 (#CCE2012)
Think TED Meets Enterprise For The C-Suite – Constellation’s Connected Enterprise. Constellation’s flagship event, Connected Enterprise 2012, starts November 9th to 11th, 2012. This intimate innovation summit in Dana Point, CA (www.stregismb.com) is designed for senior business leaders who are attempting or successfully using disruptive technologies such as social business, cloud computing, mobile enterprise, big […]
The New Engagement Platform Drives The Shift From Transactions
Convergence In The Five Forces Of Consumerization Of Technology Drives The Next Big Thing Social has given us the tools to connect. Mobile has given us the ability to interact any time and anywhere. Cloud delivers access points to us with a rich array of content and information. Big data provides us with the context […]
The End of the Successful Tech Startup?
Last weekend an interesting conversation (or maybe that’s debate) started about start ups, innovation and the state of tech in general. It started with a Facebook page post by Yammer CEO David Sacks stating that "I think that Silicon Valley…
