Posts Tagged ‘social’

We hosted a webinar with IBM last week about Social Business: a New Way of Working.    Don Lewis of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota did a great job discussing what worked at his company and what tools they used to be successful.  The webinar is now available for replay. A couple of points you’ll […]

I’m speaking in a webinar this Thursday.  Don Lewis of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota will be spending most of the time speaking about what they’ve done with Social Business and some best practices.  He’s been a key person and champion out there.  Ted Stanton, social business guru extraordinaire, will also be speaking.  Feel […]

Brian Solis spoke at the IBM Get Social event in Santa Clara, CA.  He’s an analyst at the Altimeter and focuses his research on media, social media, and ongoing impacts to that.   Overall, his presentation was really good.  He takes a pragmatic approach to social business and highlights the difference between just having a facebook […]

This week I was working with one of my clients helping review their mobile strategy and it motivated me to do some additional research. The focus of the meeting was to prioritize business, marketing, and technology goals of mobile commerce. Through this work session some interesting questions came up such as is a mobile web […]

Gary Dolsen of IBM and David Yoo of Kaiser Permanente spoke about social business and great web experiences. I will admit to being biased because Kaiser is my client and we’ve worked hard on helping them create a great portal platform for kaiserpermanente.org Gary Dolsen 95% of standout organizations will focus more on getting closer […]

The collaboration market is on fire, which creates risks and opportunities for companies.  When and where should you place your bets on these technologies?  Social software in the consumer market has taken off like gangbusters.  740 million people use Facebook and we’ll get to one billion soon. These collaboration technologies are making inroads into businesses.  […]

ITEC Connect has an article about facebook choosing to go with a microserver architecture instead of hordes of virtual servers.  If so, that’s one major player bucking the trend.  However, a microserver from a facebook perspective seems to have a lot of similarity with why people choose virtual servers: Easy to add resources Flexibility Plug […]

TED has posted a great video on how MIT researcher Deb Roy filmed the first years of his son and how he was able to trace the birth of a word.   It’s a very interesting exercise to take all that video/audio and correlate it to how and when kids learn words.   My focus on this […]

So I recently blogged on a white paper by Martijn Linssen.  I got the chance last night to read it more in depth and thought I would post my thoughts on where I agree and don’t agree with his views on a Social Business Revolution………or lack thereof. Martijn makes some good points We need a […]

Martijn Lessnen has a 24 page whitepaper out on the Social Business Revolution.  He draws out a fair number of good points about the difference between social media, social networks, and social business. He also dives into the people who are affected……or not affected by social business tools.  I like the points he makes about […]

By way of Tony Hollingsworth who posted on Linked in, Jeremiah Owyang has an article out about where social media is today.  Given that social media is 2.5 years and the tools I see out there, I would probably say it’s more like 2000 but he’s got a point.  The day is still young in […]

Denise Hatzidakis at Premier, Don Lewis at BCBSMN, Jonathan Distad, and myself spoke briefly on strategies for enable social business.  The presentation is available for your viewing pleasure: If you are intersted in follow on conversation or want to post your own two bits, we created a community at Greenhouse.