social networking
The Urgency of Now
The news about Sarah Palin broke today while I was working. Where did I see the news? Twitter (of course). Seconds turned to minutes, and I found myself impatient with not knowing the inside scoop on the why behind the resignation. What was the target of my impatience? The Twitter community. Seems ridiculous, but it’s [...]
Putting 2.0 to Work: Spigit
Here is another great product in the “Recession-Ready 2.0 Stimulus Package” series on products that can help jump start the economy. Hutch Carpenter, whom I’ve come to admire and respect deeply for his insight into 2.0 adoption, recently gave me a heads up he was joining Spigit. Of course, I checked out Spigit’s [...]
ITSinsider is mashing up with RWW
I am pleased to announce that I am joining the ReadWriteWeb team effective today. I’ve been in conversations with Bernard Lunn about how opportune a time it is for ReadWriteWeb to seriously layer on enterprise coverage to the already phenomenal job ReadWriteWeb does in covering various web 2.0 startups and the industry. [...]
Enterprise Social Networks are hot for ‘09. But, are you ready?
Thanks to the AWESOME new e20global Twitter ID list, I found @sameerpatel’s tweet on Deloitte’s new report on Social Networks for the Enterprise. Deloitte is predicting nearly half a billion dollars will be spent in 2009 on internal and external social networking solutions. Similarly, Pew Internet released a report this [...]
ITSinsider is looking for love not work… :-)
I read an old-fashioned user-generated column in Newsweek this week where a young woman quoted her mother as saying, “…finding a job you love means never working a day in your life.” For the past nearly two years, I’ve had the special privilege to cover the Enterprise 2.0 sector as an employee of nGenera. [...]
Experimentation, success, failure, and fun with global collaboration.
In the spirit of drawing the Enterprise 2.0 community together, I started a small experiment this week. On Tuesday late in the afternoon (Austin time), I set up an open Google spreadsheet to capture Twitter IDs for folks in the community who felt they associated with Enterprise 2.0. Within minutes, the spreadsheet was [...]
