Monthly Archives: April 2009
The first event of burgeoning new events company The Insight Exchange is announced! And to set the tone for some of the themes we will be exploring this year and beyond, the topic is… The Power of Influence. This event will be the first of The Insight Exchange lunch series, which each month will explore
I caught up with Laurie Lock Lee yesterday and we compared notes on our recent launched books – my Implementing Enterprise 2.0 and his IT Governance in a Networked World. I haven’t read his book yet but it looks great and I’ll report on it soon. In our discussion of Enterprise 2.0 and the networked
Continue reading Which would you prefer to do your work without: email or ERP?
After my TV interview about Twitter the other day, I’ve just been interviewed by ABC Radio about the Nielsen research just out that shows that Twitter’s second-month retention rates for new users are 40%, compared to retention rates of 50-60% for Facebook and MySpace when they were at a similar stage in their growth. I
Continue reading Q&A: Twitter’s retention rates: will Twitter be pervasive or a niche app?
To further the TED conference’s mission of promoting ideas worth spreading, it has established the TEDx program of independently organized TED events. The global Advance network is running its first TEDx event on May 5 in San Francisco, where I will speak on the future of the enterprise. See the full invitation and registration details
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For anyone who has tried to email me over the last 28 hours and received a bounce, please just email me again – my email is back up and I now exist again! This has been a nightmare as I’ve transferred my primary website associated my email to a new host, and it did not
Continue reading Yes I still exist… and even better, my email is back up!
Download Chapter 9 of Living Networks on the Flow of Services Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the
ComScore has just released global Twitter usage figures for March, showing a 95% growth in the month to 19.1 million visitors. Using the same methodology as my At current growth rates everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 2009! blog post from last week (extrapolating current exponential growth rates)… Everyone
For a recent boardroom presentation to a group of CEOs of large organizations I prepared ten ‘dos and donts’ on my topic of organizational change. Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework I drew on the core ideas in our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report and framework (as above). Enterprise 2.0 is ultimately far more about organizational change than
Today we are continuing our series of visual representations of social media tools inside organizations, taken from our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report. The diagram below was used in the chapter on wikis in the enterprise, to illustrate how wikis can be used in organizational activities. Go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page for several
Unfortunately posting this a bit late, but there is still time to submit your awesome intranet work to the Intranet Innovation Awards – the deadline is May 1. The awards are run annually by StepTwo Designs, and for the last two years have featured some fantastic examples of innovation in internal web initiatives. One of
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The latest issue of People and Strategy Journal has an extremely interesting Point/ Counterpoint feature. Download the full article and responses here. Karen Stephenson, a leading network theorist and practitioner, wrote an article Neither Hierarchy nor Network: An Argument for Heterarchy, examining how heterarchies, that bring together elements of networks and hierarchies, are the most
Continue reading An Argument for Heterarchy: creating more effective organizational structures
This morning’s Sydney Morning Herald displayed a prominent headline Telstra lays down the law on Twitter. The article began: Telstra has become the first major Australian company to set down guidelines on the use of Facebook, Twitter and similar websites by its employees. First? According to whom? As noted by Stephen Collins, the Australian Public
Following Des Walsh’s video interviews with Chris Lampard, Jenny Williams and Peter Williams at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, here are three more interviews from the event with Des’s accompanying blog posts… Stephen Collins (trib), acidlabs Des Walsh blog post on Stephen Collins interview
ComScore has just announced that the number of Twitter users in the US went up by 131% in March. At this rate, everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 of this year. In other news, CNN (which just acquired CNNbrk) and Ashton Kutcher are battling it out to be the
I’ve just posted my third logo competition on 99 designs in as many months, as I am now firmly in venture generation mode, and have found that 99 designs can provide excellent results if you approach it the right way. After rebranding Advanced Human Technologies (full launch announced shortly) and launching events firm The Insight
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For years now I have been trying to get the message out to senior executives that effective social networks are critical to business performance. By now that is well understood, in part supported by the large body research and academic literature on how social networks in and across organizations drive results and performance. Now researchers
Last night SBS World News ran a segment on the Australian National Broadband Network plan, including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the leader of the opposition debating its merits, and a piece on how much broadband is likely to cost consumers, which took some snapshots from an interview with me. Unfortunately the small quote they
Continue reading What will Australian consumers pay for 100Mbps with the NBN?
Yesterday was a busy day. I was called early to come in to the Sky TV studies to respond to the government’s announcement from its National Broadband Network tender, got stuck in traffic and arrived half way through the announcement, and was then immediately put on Sky Business live TV to give my thoughts. I
Continue reading Eight key issues in understanding Australia’s National Broadband Network
The latest research from specialist investment bank Jordan Edmiston shows that M&A activity in media, information, marketing, and technology sector fell by over 90% year-on-year in first quarter 2009. While the figure seems dire, much of this is due to this being a phase of rapid price adjustment, as Jordan Edmiston points out. First valuations
Continue reading Why major media will quickly resume buying innovative companies
The human toll of unemployment is stark, as is being experienced around the world. The most recent unemployment statistics for Silicon Valley below illustrate how the region has greater cyclicality in unemployment than almost any other region in the US. In good times unemployment can fall to almost nil, in bad times unemployment rises faster
One of the things that I love the most about my work is that I’m continually exposed to new ideas, new people, new places, and new industries. Last week I gave the opening keynote at the Direct Selling Association of Australia annual conference. The theme of the event was “Defining our Future,” so they wanted
Continue reading Six key insights into the future of the Direct Selling Industry
As announced a few hours ago on Twitter, Beth Etling and I have today launched a new events company, The Insight Exchange. It’s a major step for both of us. I’ve been organizing events in various forms for the last dozen years, and started doing it more seriously three years ago, when Future Exploration Network
Continue reading Announcing The Insight Exchange – transforming the events industry!
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV had a very nice segment on Twitter yesterday, as below. As befits the august institution, the segment was more thoughtful than some other recent media coverage. It begins with how politicians are using Twitter, including Barack Obama, Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, and South Australian state
Continue reading Twitter on ABC TV – the impact on politics, media and socializing
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