The Structured vs. Unstructured Data Dilemma
Blog PostOne of the first things you learn at university in your first year of computer science is data normalisation. I don't know about the other people out there, but I found it such an utterly boring course. Mankind has such an obsession with categorising every single piece of data that this behaviour is crammed into the minds of naïve and unknowing computer science students, just fresh from high school.
Apple, a Love Note: The Power of an Ecosystem
Blog PostApple makes beautiful, elegant, simple to use, powerful hardware and software/services. This is obvious to almost anyone and yes, incase you were wondering or had a doubt, I am a biased unabashed Apple fan.
How to Sell Social Media in your Organisation
Blog Post"Why don't they understand that social media can help us work more efficiently? Those stupid corporate drones! I want to get it more widespread in the organisation but every time I hit this frustrating wall!"
Go Social, Get Results
Blog PostTop performers need to learn quickly to advance their careers. It’s no longer acceptable to wait for our next performance review, often months away, to get critical insights on how we can improve. Managers often forget about important advice and it’s usually too late to do anything concrete about what we do hear!
Lotusphere 2010
Blog PostThis week is IBM's annual collaboration conference called Lotusphere. IBM is an alliance partner of ours, so we asked Luis Benitez to write this guest blog piece for us to let us know what we'll be seeing this week.
SharePoint 2010 – Bringing the Social back into the Enterprise
Blog PostLet's be honest with each other, Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 isn't the best kid in class with respect to being an Enterprise 2.0 or social media platform. Although the dedicated Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Social Computing website boasts the enterprise social computing features of SharePoint, it is a mere "what it should've been", rather than what is being delivered.
Data Ubiquity Threatening Usefulness of Enterprise 2.0
Blog PostWith large corporations storing more and more data in their Enterprise 2.0 (and overall IT) systems, we have the danger of getting big data silos or disparate solutions. To make matters worse, they are often stored locally in systems that are owned by different business units with different purposes.
The Marketer’s New Clothes
Blog PostNot too long ago there was a marketer, who was obsessively focused on “the next big thing” and spent a great deal of his budget on the latest fads; his only ambition was to be written up in Ad Age and Brandweek. He did not care for sales spreadsheets and customer databases did not interest him; the only thing that really interested him was to focus on the next brand campaign...
Announcing the Social Business Summit, Europe: London, March 18, 2010
Blog PostOn March 18, SOMESSO and Headshift/Dachis Group will host Europe's first Social Business Summit; an invitation-only event in the city of London, which is aimed at business and technology thought leaders interested in the future of social business design.
Social Business Summit, March 11th
Blog PostOur Social Business Summit will bring together inspirational thought leadership and tactical advice to both inspire and empower you to move forward with your social strategy. Express your interest in attending.