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 [...]
Some Social Media is Toxic to Productivity: Google+, Twitter, and Facebook
This post is on behalf of the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Do you struggle with productivity some days? Have you discovered that one of the secrets is to eliminate distractions? If your answer is yes to both, then you’ll understand where I’m coming from with this post. After having spent some time with Google+, it finally [...]
When Will Your Job Be Consumerized?
It’s become all the rage to talk about the Consumerization of IT in the last few years. There are a lot of definitions of what the term means. Those who are looking to downplay it somewhat will toss out the idea that it’s copying consumer web technology into business software. One gets the idea that [...]
Social Business needs a Cnut
Careful with that spelling (for some reason I preferred it to Canute or Kanute). Here is my premise. I think, like Clay Shirky, that we are living in a period of transformation rivalling the changes in society triggered by the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, photography, film, television, or the start of the Internet [...]
Twitter’s Biggest Problem: Tweets are Ads
Today seems to be bash on Twitter day: – Trouble at Twitter is a Fortune article talking about how Boardroom antics, CEO switches, and other distractions are keeping Twitter from progressing. – Twitter turned down a $10 Billion offer from Google, and the Business Insider claims that although they have 200 million registered users, [...]
Putting Personal Choice into Enterprise IT?
Corporate IT is about standardization, control, governance, compliance, IP protection and enterprise security not about personal choice and empowerment, or at least it was. There’s a growing movement though towards employee empowerment and personal. Now admittedly some of the movement…
Knowledge Sharing – The "New" Power in the Enterprise
I grew up with the concept that knowledge is power and that hoarding knowledge could lead to a strong power base in an organization. That’s not an unusual view from the recent past and fits a hierarchical structure inside a…
Fred Wilson is Still Wrong About Streaming Music and Amazon’s Locker Will Rock
Fred and I have tangled before over the issue of owning your music versus streaming it. Fred continues undaunted in his latest post, a reaction to Amazon’s Music Locker announcements: I don’t get the idea of music locker services like the one Amazon just announced. If I’m going to stream music from the cloud, why should [...]
What are Customers Looking for From Social Businesses?
There’s a great conversation going on right now around what Customers are looking for from Social Businesses (e.g. what is Social CRM, really?) between Dennis Howlett, Paul Greenberg (via Dennis), Mitch Lieberman, and no doubt several others I haven’t yet tracked down. It starts from a survey IBM did on what businesses think the value [...]
Black Hat Social Marketing (aka Maybe Scoble Was a Little Bit Right About Authenticity)
I have to admit: when Scoble blew up over the idea that the Facebook comments adopted by Techcrunch might reduce authenticity, I was convinced he was wrong. The premise is a simple one: the Facebook commenting system forces you to leave comments under your real name. The theory is that a lot of people will [...]
