Monthly Archives: February 2009

Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum: media coverage and commentary round-up

Ross Dawson, February 24, 2009 at 11:32 pm

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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Profiting from Technology Trends: Keynote at National Growth Summit

Ross Dawson, February 24, 2009 at 4:21 am

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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Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum #1 on Twitter today

Ross Dawson, February 24, 2009 at 4:04 am

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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Blogging and Twittering at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum

Ross Dawson, February 22, 2009 at 3:56 pm

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

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Melbourne: Enterprise 2.0 Executive Briefing on 5 March on transforming organizations with web and mobile technologies

Ross Dawson, February 17, 2009 at 8:15 pm

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

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New speaker announcements: Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum – David Backley, Peta Hopkins, Annalie Killian, Peter Williams, Chris Yates and more…

Ross Dawson, February 16, 2009 at 5:36 pm

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

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Detailed insights from a successful iPhone app developer

Ross Dawson, February 13, 2009 at 12:48 pm

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

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Podcast interview: The emergence of the Wide Open Web and social network strategy in the enterprise

Ross Dawson, February 8, 2009 at 4:26 pm

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

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Why JP Rangaswami is arguably the world’s leading Enterprise 2.0 practitioner

Ross Dawson, February 5, 2009 at 2:06 pm

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

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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.