Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is our Social Business collaborative lab where we engage and explore an ongoing discussion, share thoughts, opinions, and ideas on Social Business.
Dachis Group Social Business Summit 2010; Peter Kim’s Preview
Blog PostWe're just about a week away from hosting the Dachis Group Social Business Summit in Austin. It's the first in a series of three events being held in each of our company's geographies. If you're going to be attending, I'm excited as you are about the day. Otherwise - see you online; let's congregate around the hashtag #SBS2010.
Dachis Group Social Business Summit 2010 Preview; Doug Rushkoff on The People’s Business
Blog PostFor too long - over six hundred years, to be exact - business has depended on de-socializing people. The invention and forced implementation of central currency was designed to prevent peer-to-peer transactions, and refocus commerce on paying up to a treasury rather than paying out to people. The invention and legal enforcement of the chartered monopoly (what we now think of as the "corporation"), turned craftspeople and businesspeople into employees.
Dachis Group Social Business Summit 2010 Preview; Jackie Huba on One Percenters
Blog PostJackie Huba is a Principal at Ant's Eye View, and author of Citizen Marketers: When People Are The Message will be speaking at the Dachis Group Social Business Summit 2010 in Austin, Texas. She will be speaking on Engaging The One Percenters: Twitterers, Bloggers and Facebookers Who Influence Opinions About You. We had the opportunity to ask Jackie a few questions about her upcoming talk.
Social Business Summit 2010
Blog PostFifteen years ago, when coming up with the business thesis for Razorfish, a company I co-founded, we used to say “everything that can be digital, will be.” Now, over a decade later, we can look back and see that immense change the digital revolution has brought to our lives.
Social Software Doesn’t Really Matter
Blog Post"Clients usually ask us how they can drill that hole in the wall. As consultants we are obsessed with finding the best drill that does it in the fastest and most cost-effective way. Sadly, we often forget to ask the client why he or she needs that hole in the first place." (coaching advice from a VP in my previous company)
Dachis Group Welcomes New Social Business Consultants and Associates
Blog PostAdding fuel to our growing Social Business Design practice, I’m pleased to announce that we have added several new consultants and associates to our North American team led by Managing Director Peter Kim. We are lucky to welcome Caroline Dangson, Cynthia Pflaum, Tom Cummings, Bryan Kotlyar, Kate Rush Sheehy and Amanda Johnson all who bring exceptional analytical, research, and programatic development skills to our consulting and operations teams and come to us from respected firms including: Forrester Research, IDC, and Yankee Group. These additions enable us to better service our expanding client base enabling them to move forward to become more socially calibrated, collaborative, connected organizations.
Review of the BBC’s New Social Networking Guidelines
Blog PostMy former employer, the BBC, has issued new guidelines for the official use of third party social networking and micro-blogging services. The new guidelines should not be confused with the guidelines issued several years ago on the personal use of blogging and social networking sites by BBC staff but instead are intended to cover official, albeit non-contractual, BBC activities on third party websites.
Your Business Changes, Your Documents Don’t
Blog PostLast 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!
Breaking the Mold; How Open Colony is Redesigning Executive Recruiting
Blog PostOur 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.
Cloud Culture and the Fight for Self-preservation
Blog PostWith 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?