Monthly Archives: February 2009
This morning an email from a client mentioned the GFC. Earlier this week another client was talking about the GEC (which has the advantage that you can pronounce it, while GFC has to be spelled out). When this morning I Twittered about how we have a new acronym that doesn’t need to be explained, I
Continue reading Why GFC explains everything (to Australians)
A quick review of of media coverage and commentary on the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum yesterday. Let me know if there’s anything missing here. Computerworld: Social networking in business: plan less for less pain Coverage of the social networking panel at the Enterprise 2.0 Forum ITNews: Westpac reality check on Web 2.0 Review of comments
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Tomorrow morning I am delivering a keynote at the National Growth Summit, looking at how fast-growing companies can tap technology trends to build growth and opportunities. The presentation is below (usual caveats – this is not intended as a stand-alone presentation but to accompany my speech). I’ll write more about this soon, but now I
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Back from a fabulous day at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. I don’t have time for a full debrief now as I have to finish preparing for my keynote at theNational Growth Summit tomorrow. Certainly a highlight of today was the Twitter activity at the conference, with by some measures the event reaching #1 on Twitter
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Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is on tomorrow in Sydney (my regular readers might be glad that I’ll be a little more diverse in my blogging activity after that ). Everything has come together extremely well, both on the fantastic content and speakers, and in getting extremely good attendance, showing that Enterprise 2.0 is squarely on
Continue reading Blogging and Twittering at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum
To complement our one-day Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney on 24 February, Future Exploration Network and Optus Business are running an Enterprise 2. 0 Executive Briefing over lunch in Melbourne on 5 March. The Melbourne event is certainly no substitute for the in-depth content, workshops, and insights that will be available for the full
For many, many years I have felt that the vast majority of conferences were very poorly run, continuing to apply ancient, didactic approaches. That’s one of the reasons that a few years ago I started running events, organizing the Future of Media Summit, which annually links Sydney and San Francisco, the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum
The Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is coming together extremely well. It is fantastic to see that while other sectors of the economy are struggling, organizations recognize that they must engage with the critical issue of transforming how they work using web and mobile technologies. We have confirmed a number of fantastic speakers at the event
My brother Graham Dawson’s iPhone app OzWeather finally hit the #1 spot for paid apps in Australia in late January. After a couple of weeks at #1 it has been knocked off by Wobble Bikini Fun. However the fad apps quickly come and go – while they can generate a fair bit of revenue in
Continue reading Detailed insights from a successful iPhone app developer
Recently I have been immersing myself in the Enterprise 2.0 space, organizing the second annual Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum which is on in two weeks now, writing the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Report which will be launched at the same time (slightly afterwards for the international market), and helping a variety of large organizations to drive
In the lead-up to the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, a podcast interview with me has just been launched on Stan Relihan’s Connections Show, which is one of the top rated business podcasts in the world. Next up on the show after me is Vint Cerf, the ‘father of the internet’, so that will definitely be
We are very excited to have JP Rangaswami doing the keynote at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum (by video from UK). For those who haven’t come across JP’s work – you should have! For the inaugural Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum last year, our international keynotes were Andrew McAfee, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the
Continue reading Why JP Rangaswami is arguably the world’s leading Enterprise 2.0 practitioner
A new perspective on Enterprise 2.0 adoption has just occurred to me, stemming from a conversation with audience members at my KM Forum presentation the other day, and while writing the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, which is being created to be out in time for the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. [UPDATE:] Implementing Enterprise 2.0 is
Continue reading Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption
Anyone who has attended our conferences knows that we create highly interactive and participatory events. One of the features we always run is ‘participant roundtables’ in which all attendees select topics of particular interest and share perspectives with their peers, who at our events are usually senior, highly experienced people. At Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum
I’ve just got back from presenting at NSW KM Forum on Implementing Enterprise 2.0 in the Real World, where I was spreading word on our Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Below are my slides, which contain some preview material from our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, which will be released at the end of the month. Implementing
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The Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is coming up very soon now! Click on the image below for our latest flyer on the Enterprise 2.0 event, giving full details on why this will be the premier Enterprise 2.0 event in Australia this year. As you can see from the speakers pictured above, who represent just some
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