Last week, a client asked us for some help with finding a good name for their Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge platform. The internal Headshift chat was buzzing with suggestions and one person remarked that in his previous company they called it “the big black box where knowledge documents go to die.” Sound familiar? Continue reading!
Our guest writer today is Caitlin Pulleyblank, founder and CEO of Open Colony. Her company is pushing the boundaries of what it means to bring social to the executive recruiting business. An avid reader and consumer of culture, Caitlin was on the founding staff of Wired Magazine.
With the ubiquity of the Internet, we see more and more of our data moving to the cloud. There is a potential threat: who will own that cloud? Or differently said, will the cloud enabling companies “turn evil” one day?
Companies must implement policy to manage social media participation and let’s face it – the devil is in the details.
Several shark species need to keep on swimming, otherwise they die. Does this hold true for companies as well? If you “stop swimming” will it cause the death of a company, as it will do for a shark?
Last night I attended one of the Social Media Week events, Show Me the Money: Where’s the ROI in Social Media?, a panel discussion organised by Chinwag and hosted by Sun. The discussion, chaired by Andrew Gerrard, included Robin Grant from We Are Social, Luke Brynley-Jones of Our Social Times, Marshal Manson from Edelman, and Mark Rogers of Market Sentinel.
A lot of people are dreaming about driving a Ferrari one day, unfortunately only a few are privileged. So what do you do if you are a car nut? You start with a Fiat Grande Punto, later on upgrade to an Alfa Romeo, when you get that promotion you go for a second hand Maserati and maybe one day you’ll have budget enough to buy that Ferrari.
I wrote about The Personal Enterprise earlier. It is a term that has been around for a while, but which is coming in to its own with Social Business Design as a foundation that helps answer a lot of the questions that the original concept left open.
One 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 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.