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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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.