You’ve heard it before, perhaps with different words. Gartner defines the “Nexus of Forces” as being “the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social, mobility, cloud and information patterns that drive…
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Marketers as Social Evangelists
When Web 1.0 first came to prominence, most companies were challenged by how to adapt their traditional business models to take advantage of web technology. While the idea of promoting…
Read MoreEnterprise social networking platforms: Think Amazon, not Facebook
“This is just Facebook for the Enterprise” is the most common way most people describe enterprise social networking platforms. After all, the look and feel of those platforms borrow a…
Read MoreAwaiting the next horizon–Will the internet enforce social good?
When the Web was first available as a business tool, there were many debates about its value. Populated by pornography, bulletin boards, and chat rooms, there was little to recommend…
Read MoreOf dinosaurs, birds, and Enterprise Social Platforms
As the Facebook IPO story developed over the last few weeks, people started wondering what was real and what was just smoke and mirrors. Being very active in this “social…
Read MoreWikipedia and the wiki utopia, revisited
Back in 2006, when the hype around the then-called Web 2.0 “thing” was reaching its peak of inflated expectations, much was said about an article published by Nature the year…
Read MoreWhat’s next? Social media and the information life cycle
Back in the days when “Web 2.0” was a hot buzzword, many people asked what “Web 3.0” would look like. Even though that question sounds now as outdated as an…
Read MoreUnskewing the Web: Curators as filters
This is my final post on the skewed Web. In the early days of Web 2.0 awareness, much was said about the new —now old—Web being all about participation: in…
Read MoreWhat about the Risk of Social Media?
A lot of clients pose this question for me, especially the corporate folks. Many of the folks that ask me about it don’t really need the answer for themselves, because…
Read MoreMarketing 2.0: 30-minute video
If you’ve never seen me speak, you can subject yourself to it now. This is the first of a two-part event I did for Danish Web hosting companies recently in…
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