social networking
They’re Real, and They’re Spectacular
The 2.0 Adoption Council is off to a rockin’ start. We’re about 7 weeks into our new venture. I launched the Council on 6/26/09 on LinkedIn. We’ve sinced move our conversations to Socialcast (7/13/09) and the Jive SBS platform (7/15/09). We currently have about 50 members. During our weekly Council conference call last week, we [...]
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 site and [...]
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. We concluded those [...]
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 month that demonstrates casual use [...]
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. Hands [...]
