Monthly Archives: May 2009
Prominent Arabic region magazine Trends did a special issue to accompany the MegaTrends conference where I delivered a keynote last week, incorporating interviews with the three major speakers: Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon al-Nahyan, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourist Authority, and myself. My interview is in the document
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While our annual Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is the biggest Enterprise 2.0 event in Australasia and Asia, the global landmark event for Enterprise 2.0 is definitely the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, coming up on June 22-25. As I am a blogger partner of the conference, you can get a 30% discount by registering through
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Yesterday evening water got cut off to our house, and then the electricity went out. There were sounds of roadwork outside, so I presumed that as had happened before they were digging up pipes in the road and hadn’t bothered to let us know. In the morning my wife Victoria got up and then rushed
Last night we had a conversation with Juliette Powell in Sydney. A small group of local digerati gathered for an informal conversation on social networks, taking advantage of Juliette being in Australia for the first time as she tours the world promoting her new book 33 Million People in the Room. Below are the unedited
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@webtechman just posted this: For connoisseurs of geek porn who haven’t seen it before, click on the image below for my full Twitter background, comprised of four of our more well-known frameworks, or go to the full pdfs of the frameworks here: Web 2.0 Framework, Extinction Timeline, Trend Blend 2007, and Future of Media Strategic
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Continuing my live blogging of the MegaTrends conference before my keynote this afternoon, there are two sessions on the economy: a presentation from the Ministry of the Economy, and a panel of the chief economists of leading banks. The UAE Minister for the Economy couldn’t make it, so the Director-General of the Ministry presented his
Below are my slides for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference at Abu Dhabi. As for all my presentations, note that these slides are designed to accompany my speech and not to be viewed on their own, though may still be useful to people who didn’t attend. Keynote: Profiting from Accelerating Change – MegaTrends Abu
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In preparing for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi this afternoon I have distilled my thinking into a new visual representation. To gain insights the future we need to understand the intersection of three domains: Technology, Business, and Society. In each of these domains we can distill one driving force that brings
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The biggest highlight of the MegaTrends conference for me (other than my own keynote ) is the presentation by Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel prize for economics last year, on the state of the global economy. I have a lot of respect for his outlook. Live notes from his speech: The volume of world
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I’m at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi where I will be giving my keynote this afternoon. I’ll be live blogging the morning sessions. The conference was opened by His Excellency Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, a member of the Al Nahyan Abu Dhabi royal family, and chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and several
Next Monday I do the closing keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi. The opening keynote will be by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, while I will close speaking on ‘Profiting from Accelerating Change in a Downturn’. While I will be speaking from a global perspective, I will also be addressing some of the
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Tomorrow morning I am doing the second day opening keynote at ITAC09 – Information Technology in Aged Care conference. Here is my presentation – as always these are intended to accompany my speech, not as stand-alone slides. Keynote: Transforming Aged Care with Technology View more presentations from rossdawson. I hope to write some more on
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Fantastic news! Juliette Powell, author of the freshly launched book on social networking 33 Million People in the Room, founder of The Gathering Think Tank, and leading broadcaster and media entrepreneur, is coming to Sydney for the first time next week. To take advantage of this there’ll be an informal gathering: ‘Conversation with Juliette Powell’
Continue reading Conversation with Juliette Powell – Sydney, 27 May
Here 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 RSS in the enterprise, to illustrate how RSS can support effective information flows in the organization. Go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page for several
The Power of Influence lunch was run earlier today. This was in fact the inaugural event of The Insight Exchange. The quality of the event and the feedback augur well for The Insight Exchange future’s, and particularly for the value it will create for participants. It was a highly interactive event, with deep content and
Continuing our series of free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0, here is Chapter 7 on Governance. For full details on the report and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. Within the Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework above, governance is an absolutely critical and central issue, as I have written about many
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Today we launch our Influence Landscape framework! Click on the image to download the pdf. This continues our tradition of creating frameworks to elucidate where things are going, including extremely popular visuals such as Future of Media Strategic Framework, Future of the Media Lifecycle, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework and many more. The Influence Landscape framework
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A review of what had happened to the Web 2.0 poster-children prompted me to review what had happened to the companies featured in my Web 2.0 Landscape dating from May 2007. This was one of the elements of our Web 2.0 Framework which has now been downloaded over 150,000 times. In the diagram below the
Continue reading Rapid turnover in the Web 2.0 space – the best get acquired
Yesterday ABC Radio National’s Future Tense program did a special feature on the future of conferences. Beth Etling, CEO of The Insight Exchange, was one of the three panelists interviewed, along with Matt Moore of Innotecture and Katie Chatfield of Jack Morton Worldwide. You can listen to the future of conference program here as a
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Tomorrow I am doing the closing keynote for the CPA Week Conference in Perth, on the topic of The Future of Global Business: Implications and Opportunities. The slides from my presentation are here – as always these are intended for people who are attending my session as they are not designed to be meaningful on
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I wrote the article below for Tech Marketing magazine. It is intended as a quick guide for marketers who are looking to engage with social media. It is now impossible to ignore the power and reach of social media. Yet the rules of engagement are very different to traditional marketing and PR. Here are a
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This is the year influence shifts to center stage. Wherever I go people are talking about influence. Meanwhile companies are rapidly shifting their marketing resources to tap the power of influence. There are several primary drivers for the rise of influence: * The democratization of media, which gives everyone a channel to propagate theirs or
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At last!!! It is literally over five years now that I have been wanting to revamp the website for my core company Advanced Human Technologies. In the meantime we have created many new websites, but the size of the task of reworking my original website, combined with the reality of an always-overfull list of pressing
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On Tuesday I spoke at the TEDxAdvance event in San Francisco on Future of the Enterprise. Photo credit: Andrew Mager, magerleagues In short, it was a great event, with close to 80 very interesting people in attendance, and excellent energy during the presentations and ensuing conversation over drinks. I won’t replicate the fantastic write up
Continue reading Quick review of TEDxAdvance on Future of the Enterprise
May is going to be a very busy month for me – lots of interesting things on. In a few hours I fly to San Francisco where among other things I will be presenting at the Future of the Enterprise TEDxAdvance event and generating momentum for our Future of Influence Summit to be held August
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