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Webciety and Enterprise 2.0: A snapshot of today’s social computing conversations

By Dion Hinchcliffe on March 5, 2010

Though smaller than in year’s past, Germany’s CeBIT trade show in Hanover this week remains one of the giants of the industry and is a must-attend event for much of Europe’s technology leaders. For the last two years, I have been participating in Webciety, a show within a show that explores the emerging 21st century digital lifestyle.

Here is a breakdown of how Europe is looking at Enterprise 2.0 adoption and how it affects us as well.

Posted in Featured Posts, Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture of Participation, blogs, Cloud Computing, collaboration, Collective intelligence, community management, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, mashups, Network effects, Products, SaaS, social computing, Social CRM, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Wikis | Leave a response

The Facebook imperative for enterprise software

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 28, 2010

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, the well-known CRM and cloud computing company (and now soon-to-be social software vendor) wrote a guest post on TechCrunch late last week making the case for “why enterprise software should take its cues from Facebook and become more social.”

What then does this mean for the future of IT and what impacts will social computing ultimately have on the enterprise.

Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Architecture of Participation, Cloud Computing, Collective intelligence, Community, Digital Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Network effects, SaaS, social computing, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social software, social web, The Social Graph, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform | Leave a response

Making government more open and social

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 28, 2010

Can social tools and community-based approaches truly help our government function better and operate more efficiently? Will open access to government data create important new opportunities for citizens and increase transparency? As we’ll see, these two questions are currently top-of-mind in many public sector policy discussions this year. The questions also herald underlying forces at work in the government landscape in many countries around the world, including the United states.

Here are some of the initiatives that are taking place this year and what’s happening with Government 2.0 as 2010 begins to heat up.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture of Participation, blogs, Business Models, collaboration, Collective intelligence, Community, community management, Digital Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, Government 2.0, Grassroots Community, Open APIs, social computing, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Wikis | Leave a response

Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 22, 2010

Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground fairly rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.

Here’s a breakdown of what Enterprise 2.0 technologies and products to watch this year.

Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged blogs, Business Models, collaboration, Community, community management, Convergence, Customer Community, Digital Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Grassroots Community, Identity, LDAP, openid, Products, social computing, Social CRM, Social Economy, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, social web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Wikis | 2 Responses

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – The Impact of Technological Change

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 18, 2010

The rate of change in the IT industry has increased dramatically in recent years, but overall technological change has moved ahead even faster. Such is the pace that it’s been imposing a disruptive forward drag on enterprises and it’s been…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, CIO, Crowdsourcing, CTO, CXO, CxO Issues, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, iPhone, mobile, Open Business Models, shadow it, social business, social computing, social networking, Social Tools, technology, Web, Web 2.0, Wikis | 1 Response

First impressions of Google Buzz: Smart, useful, long road ahead

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 9, 2010

Earlier this afternoon Google Buzz went live after a comprehensive launch event streamed live over YouTube. Buzz is a brand-new social tool that helps users to share updates, links, photos, videos, and more with the online world at large. Aimed at consumers and eventually enterprises, Buzz is Google’s most serious Social Web play yet. Find out why with my detailed breakdown and analysis.

Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged collaboration, Community, Enterprise 2.0, google, Google Buzz, Mobile Internet, Mobile Web, Open APIs, SaaS, search, Search Engines, social computing, Social Media, social networking, social software, social web, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube | 3 Responses

Social CRM: Ground zero for Enterprise 2.0 in 2010

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 3, 2010

There’s been some debate recently on whether Social CRM is part of the broader Enterprise 2.0 story. I try to answer the question and explore some of the latest thinking on social business and how it can help transform the customer relationship for real competitive advantage.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture of Participation, Business Models, collaboration, Collective intelligence, Community, community management, Customer Community, Design Patterns, Digital Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Grassroots Community, social computing, Social CRM, Social Economy, Social Enterprise, Social Media, social networking, social software | Leave a response

The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

By Dion Hinchcliffe on January 20, 2010

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. However, despite the movement of social computing into our daily lives we’re all clearly on a long journey together as the technologies themselves emerge from infancy.

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

Fortunately the Web doesn’t stand still and there continues continues to be rapid research and development when it comes to the mechanics of today’s online social universe. There are many new efforts under way to refine and improve the world of social media, some of which we’ll explore here and many which are just beginning…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged atom, Badges, blogs, collaboration, Community, Convergence, Enterprise Web 2.0, Facebook, Gadgets, Identity 2.0, Lightweight Service Models, Loosely Joined, microformats, Open APIs, openid, Products, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, social computing, Social Media, social networking, social networks, social software, social web, Structured Content, The Social Graph, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, widgets, Wikis | Leave a response

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