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A Share Too Far: the Failure of Social Readers

Social readers seemed to make a lot of sense. After all, long before there was a Facebook, there was a New York Times “most emailed” list. We apparently just love to share our enthusiasm or disgust for a remarkable story. Mashable breaks it down for you: Social reader apps were... Read More »

The Power of Networked Customers

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Telegraph (UK) and appears on CloudBlog with permission. Thanks to Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) at Telegraph Media Group. - @jtaschek During the Industrial Age, companies were formed for a number of reasons: to achieve scale; to increase reach; to simplify... Read More »

Goin’ Mobile

Facebook’s IPO (NASDAQ: FB) has taken its rightful place in the history books, but the attention has shed new light on its biggest challenge: mobile advertising. About 25 percent of our time consuming media is sent on a mobile device, yet mobile accounts for only two percent of total advertising.... Read More »

The Road Show Not Taken

Cameras lined the steps to the Sheraton in midtown Manhattan, eager to get a glimpse of the headliner at a packed house for the show about to unfold. A new Broadway star? A young lion of Hollywood? Nope. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook arriving to take part in the... Read More »

Tipping Point

It looks like we are near a tipping point for the social enterprise. According to a survey of more than 1300 executives and IT decision-makers, a full 49% have invested in social networking solutions in 2012. But for most of these forward-thinking companies, the journey is just beginning: just 19%... Read More »

Of genies and bottles and wishing for shoehorns

How much do you make? Have you ever contemplated suicide? Are you now or have you ever been…? Are you aware of the fact…? I have here before me… [...]information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community’s... Read More »

Musing about Shared Value

Have you read Haydn Shaughnessy? If you’re interested in the social enterprise, you should. I haven’t yet read his recent book, The Elastic Enterprise, but I will: I intend to read it as I cross the Atlantic on my way to SXSW later this week. (I’m speaking there on the... Read More »

Ctrl – Alt – Social

In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word... Read More »

New Social Apps to Speed the Demise of ERP Hegemony

“Mr. CIO, tear down these walls.” OK, so that’s not exactly what President Ronald Reagan said as he stood outside the Brandenburg Gate nearly 25 years ago. But it is how many employees feel when forced to use ERP systems when what really need is software that is faster to... Read More »

Bored of Directors

What new shiny object do we not care about today? And what do crown jewels mean anyway? Thus was the start of a conversation with the New Zealand provocateur – in human form, which was a follow up to a Gillmor Gang Enterprise show recorded live in real-time. Behind the... Read More »