The social web seems to attract a lot of definitional redefining, whether by adding numbers after a term like Collaboration 2.0, Business 3.0, or Office 4.0, or by combining two previously independent words into one as we have with Socialutions. These attempts at redefining can be useful, but they have a tendency to confuse.
Collaboration intuitively has a place in Socialutions, but where exactly does it fit?
Socialution...
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I am sure that plenty of you folks out there may already know about this, but I thought I would share a few thoughts about it, just in case you may have missed it. If you would remember, some time ago, I actually put together a number of different blog entries where I was sharing [...]
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There's no question that Mashups are hot right now. In fact, it's a market that Forrester's Oliver Young says could be worth nearly $700 million by 2013. Vendors in every sector are rushing to deliver these so-called "situational applications" to sophisticated business users everywhere in the hopes of improving collaboration and spiking productivity. A vendor I covered recently and one that's in the in the middle of Mashup mania is MindTouch, ma...
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The other day I jumped into a conversation thread on the SWOM forum and caught this bit of genius from “Wandering Dave Rhee”: As a former Dell competitor (at the time when they introduced their initiative last year), I can say that we closely looked at the pros and cons of creating [...]
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Who is Katherine Banning? Currently living in the US, Katherine is a member of the National Trust (UK), as well as English Heritage, the Royal Oak Society, Friends of Kew, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation (US). An energetic and enthusiastic professional, she plans to graduate from Eckerd College with a degree in Museum Studies [...]
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Last week, The New York Times wrote about International Data Group’s (IDG) successful transition from a print to an online model. I was intrgiued to read about IDG Chairman Patrick McGovern’s enthusiasm for the economics of new media. Having gotten to know McGovern a bit during my 15-year career at IDG, I asked [...]
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This is the second in our ongoing series of guest posts. Today’s is from Maddie Grant, who pens Diary Of A Reluctant Blogger. So, listen up. I was thinking about what to write as my guest post for the THINKing blog. Since I write about social media specifically as it pertains to associations and [...]
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 With so many demands vying for our time and attention, sometimes even a simple, uninterrupted phone call seems to be a stretch of the imagination. Cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), instant messaging, pagers, faxes, emails and the list goes, on all contribute to information availability and overload. In Western society, we have been trained to “want what we want, when we want it - five minutes ago.” Microwave ovens, cell p...
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NOTE: This is a joint piece, co-authored by John Cass and Jason Falls. It is cross-posted on PR Communications and SocialMediaExplorer.com. The blogosphere has been abuzz this week here and in other places about Gina Trapani’s PR Spammers wiki and the blacklisting of public relations professionals and firms. As the discussions have progressed, we [...]
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About a year ago, Kevin Hillstrom of MineThatData analysed the sentiment of marketing bloggers, under the hypothesis that top bloggers overwhelmingly post negative sentiments. Hillstrom concluded from a sample of posts that marketing bloggers were more positive than expected. I think Ben Franklin would be pleased with the tonality of discussion in today's blogosphere - there's generally moderation between positive and negative. My hypothesis: if...
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