Talk of the Web
There’s been a lot of activity on the Web and in our industry in the last week and I thought it might be fun to try and tie at least some of it together. Much of it in one way or another involves Facebook—or FB as the proposed ticker symbol suggests. Part of an email [...]
The Facebook IPO
So Facebook is about to do the expected. It filed for an IPO yesterday and the clock is now ticking on what will be one of the largest offerings in history. I don’t know how things will compare but Ford’s IPO in the 1950’s and UPS’s offering a few years ago might be bigger pound [...]
Is Social Marketing Replacing Content Marketing – or Enhancing It?
Interesting post by David Strom on ReadWriteWeb this past weekend – Blogging Declines Across the Inc. 500. As stated in the UMass Dartmouth study behind the headline: Fifty percent of the 2010 Inc. 500 had a corporate blog, up from 45% in 2009 and 39% in 2008. In this new 2011 study, the use of [...]
Seven Basic Privacy Rights Users Should Demand For Social Business
Public Outrage Grows Over Lax Privacy Polices At Popular Social Networking Sites Recent actions by social networking leaders in the market place have brought new attention to a user’s privacy rights. Despite the fact that these sites provide a freemium service to users, abuse and arrogance of a user’s privacy rights combined with user ignorance [...]
Enterprise software: The Dalai Lama / Desmond Tutu connection
Enterprise software is changing for the better and it’s about time!
Does Social Add Complexity or Replace It?
Listening last week to salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote address at DreamForce 2011, I started to see social and enterprise apps come together in a more meaningful integration than I had seen before. Suffice it to say that a lot of enterprise software analsysts have been very cool to the idea of the social enterprise. This is unfortunate because it [...]
Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2011: Some insights from The Greatest (Cloud Computing) Show on Earth!
Ringling Brothers bills itself as “The Greatest Show on Earth,” but Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2011 could easily claim the title of “The Greatest Cloud Computing Show on Earth.” With over 40,000 attendees, dozens of exhibitors, great concerts and parties, and presentations galore, the event was an unqualified success for Salesforce.com, but it also heralded a real [...]
The enterprise opportunity of Big Data: Closing the "clue gap"
As accumulated information has become a top-line asset in large companies, the ability to tap into it and release value from it is not growing to match in most traditional firms. Yet this information is currently growing exponentially and becoming a c…
Using Consumer Social Tools for Business: Facebook v. LinkedIn
Twice a year my group at IDC does a social business survey to look at adoption and use of social software in the enterprise. For this summer’s round we decided to take two “branches” in the questions, business use of enterprise social tools and enterprise use of consumer social tools. The first document from the [...]
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 [...]
