Monthly Archives: July 2009

Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Free Chapter 11: Social Networks In The Enterprise

Ross Dawson, July 24, 2009 at 4:57 am

Continuing our series of free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0, here is Chapter 11 on Social Networks in the Enterprise. For full details on the report and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. Section 4 of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 is Creating Business Value From Enterprise 2.0 Tools. It includes chapters

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SAP webinar on the US stimulus package and how to benefit from it

Ross Dawson, July 22, 2009 at 10:47 pm

On July 29 at 2pm ET SAP is running a webinar on the US economic stimulus package and ways to be able to take advantage of it. Full details here and below. Tap Into a “Hidden” Stimulus for Your Business: Understand Its impact. Discover another “Hidden Stimulus” The current $787 billion Stimulus will surely help

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Where do you want to play? Where the economy used to be or where the economy is going?

Ross Dawson, July 19, 2009 at 3:45 pm

Today asset manager James Altucher writes in Wall Street Journal that The Internet is Dead (As An Investment). There has already been a solid response, most notably from venture capital investor Fred Wilson, writing The Internet is Alive and Well (As An Investment), as well as posts from HipMojo, Stephen Arnold, and Elias Bizannes. The

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The overlap between tech and porn: an overlooked element in search optimization

Ross Dawson, July 16, 2009 at 5:46 pm

If you search for “multiplayer sex game” (and a number of variations on these words) on Google, this blog comes up #1. In April 2006 I wrote a blog post Massively multi-player sex games, which discussed the launch of Naughty America: The Game, an MMORPG involving sex. As far as I can tell my predictions

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Going on holidays! Conclusion: we need multi-factor travel search…

Ross Dawson, July 7, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Just one month after the birth of our beautiful daughter Phoebe, we are going on a week’s holiday in Fiji. Both Victoria and I have busy schedules coming up, so it’s a good time to get away, rest, and enjoy being a family together. Victoria did the bulk of the holiday searching, probably spending a

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A list of business applications for blogging in the enterprise

Ross Dawson, July 7, 2009 at 6:07 am

We’re getting a great response to our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report. We’ll get up a discussion space on the site soon. In the meantime I’d thought I’d share a brief excerpt from the book, in chapter 10 on Blogs in the enterprise. You can download four other chapters from the website, including our Social networking

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A fundamental question: Are we evolving faster?

Ross Dawson, July 7, 2009 at 5:48 am

Recent research suggests that ‘microevolution’ – that within species – happens faster in warmer climates – their DNA changes faster. This leads to the extraordinary tropical diversity of our planet. Susan Kraemer asks: what happens if the planet’s climate gets warmer? Will we all evolve faster? Which leads me to the bigger question: are we

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The story of my life: reflections on how my interests were shaped

Ross Dawson, July 6, 2009 at 5:42 am

I just discovered that an extended profile piece on me that appeared in Inside Knowledge magazine in October 2006 is now available online under the title The Knowledge: Ross Dawson. It is fascinating to me to read it a few years later and consider what has and hasn’t changed. It provides an extremely good overview

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Influence in launching start-ups – who do you go to?

Ross Dawson, July 5, 2009 at 1:23 am

One of the most important applications of influence is in launching start-ups. This is often a make or break situation – you have a great opportunity to get attention (and on the back of that revenue) when you launch a new company. If it doesn’t work and you don’t get much attention at that point,

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Who will provide the credibility ratings for the journalists of the planet?

Ross Dawson, July 2, 2009 at 6:30 am

Citizen journalist site Allvoices.com has just moved out of beta. CNet provides a story of the site, its founder Amra Tareen, and Allvoices’ features including a map of the world showing where the latest stories are emerging. A Reuters story, Allvoices happy to pay popular posters, focuses on how the site pays contributors and its

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Twitter and the ever-faster moving news landscape

Ross Dawson, July 1, 2009 at 5:05 am

Associated Press has just released a story titled Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century? which examines the role of Twitter in the news cycle. It examines the role Twitter played in the news of Michael Jackson’s death, in the Iranian election, and in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and goes on to quote

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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 Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (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.