I read, with great interest, an interview with Jeff Clavier of SoftTechVC in Network World. Jeff’s had notable successes in the consumer world (Mint, MyBlogLog, and Userplane). I’ve never interacted with Jeff (other than recommending a Dim Sum Restaurant on Twitter) but I’ve always had respect for him – unlike...
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This post is not about what’s right and what’s wrong or whether we should or shouldn’t fight for using one or all of these concepts. That said, each of these monikers need to be dealt with as they will become increasingly important as organizations begin to consider more efficient ways of interacting and transacting...
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Taming the Supply Chain Beast with Enterprise 2.0
Excerpt: No one knows the true power, limitations and opportunities for each component of a product better than the very folks who build them. Second, component manufacturing is largely a commodity business. As a supplier, I need to differentiate myself from competitors who are...
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A selection of Posts that address how to accelerate workplace performance.
Understanding the Business Value of Unstructured Environments
Excerpt: Business collaboration should be all about facilitating communication, streamlining processes and providing valuable contextual information to coworkers, against which business value can be measured as increased efficiency and awareness. Often due to lack of...
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Here’s some of our thinking on the topic of performance measurement, and analytics in the context of social and collaborative enterprises
Is Behavioral Targeting coming to the Social Enterprise?
Excerpt: The net net is that if enterprise social analytics are going to look like behavioral analytics on the consumer web, they’ll be ...
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Why unlocking ECM is critical to your Enterprise 2.0 Execution Plan
Excerpt: When you layer in social computing concepts at the early stages of content creation, you have the ability to encourage such uses of raw ingredients (or social objects). These social objects, previously hidden in an access controlled CMS environment...
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Enterprise 2.0 Software: Commoditization before Monetization
Excerpt: With Wave, Google is offering a real time messaging and activity stream platform that developers can use to create applications or amp up existing offerings. Its still early and unproven and will probably only work for SaaS offerings. But if it delivers on its...
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Cisco 2009 3rd Party External Social Media Research Findings
Excerpt: Some key findings from this research: the primary audiences that organizations are trying to reach focus on user communities (80%) and customers (50%)
– Social networks (75%) and micro-blogging (50%) are the primary tools to reach these audiences
– Blogs were also being...
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