Monthly Archives: October 2007

The emergence of the naked start-up – why are entrepreneurs behind corporations in creating the open economy?

Ross Dawson, October 28, 2007 at 2:38 pm

When you go to networking events in Silicon Valley and ask people what they’re doing, you’ve got around a 50-50 chance of a “we’re in stealth mode” reply. Lots of nascent start-ups, and all of them afraid that someone will steal their idea and get to market before them. It kind of makes sense, since

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Sir Martin Sorrell: WPP mimics Google and Microsoft, driving the PR industry

Ross Dawson, October 26, 2007 at 6:24 pm

Yesterday I heard Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, speak about the Changing Nature of PR and Communications. I attended as a guest of the organizer Frocomm. Given Sir Martin’s experience and seminal role in the communications industry today, I thought it was well worth going along. His very big-picture thinking was in evidence,

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The State of the Nation in Australian emerging technology

Ross Dawson, October 24, 2007 at 2:58 pm

Chris Saad, the hyper-energetic co-founder of Particls, Engagd, APML, Media 2.0 Workgroup and probably many other interesting initiatives I haven’t had the time to hear about yet, has added to his plate editing Blognation Australia. Blognation is a very interesting set of blogs covering technology developments in 13 countries, which can be used to provide

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Delivering Tomorrow’s Newspaper: The view from 2020

Ross Dawson, October 23, 2007 at 2:40 am

This is something you just have to see. Richard Watson of Future Exploration Network has created a fabulous article on the future of newspapers titled Delivering Tomorrow’s Newspaper, written from the perspective of 2020. The article, dated October 18, 2020, appears in Changing Times, an “Initiative of the Indo-China European Union”, in its “Marginally Leftist

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Microsoft teams up to improve its Enterprise 2.0 offering

Ross Dawson, October 17, 2007 at 4:25 pm

Microsoft has just announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that it is partnering with Atlassian on its enterprise wiki product Confluence and Newsgator on its newly released Newsgator Social sites, which is “a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and middleware”. Both products will be integrated into Sharepoint. This is a very interesting announcement

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Professional services are the future of the economy

Ross Dawson, October 16, 2007 at 10:58 pm

When I was in Singapore recently to deliver a keynote for a client, I was interviewed by Radio Singapore International. Click here for the transcript and podcast of the interview on the Radio Singapore website – the complete interview is also below. While it was a brief interview focused on professional services, a few themes

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Implementing Web 2.0 is critical for attracting talent to legal and professional firms

Ross Dawson, October 16, 2007 at 4:18 am

A recent article in Lawyers Weekly magazine titled Firms warned to embrace Web 2.0 opens as follows: AUSTRALIAN LAW firms risk losing clients as well as talent if they don’t make use of Web 2.0 technologies, an expert warns. Ross Dawson, chairman of Future Exploration Network, said that Australian firms are lagging far behind their

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Newsgator implements APML: the value of standards in an open world

Ross Dawson, October 15, 2007 at 1:21 pm

Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML), the standard for sharing attention profiles that I wrote about recently, has received a major boost today. The prominent RSS aggregator Newsgator has announced that it is implementing APML, while Engagd reports that a range of significant players are joining the APML working group, including social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia, feed

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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.

Ross is author most recently of Getting Results From Crowds, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, and Implementing Enterprise 2.0. (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.