• JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012
    Penner Ash Willamette Pinot 2009
    Penner-Ash Willamette Valley 2009 Pinot drank VERY well last week. Photos
  • CONVERSATION MATTERS  |  SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012
    Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation
    In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy. Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. At one point GM had 138 best practice teams and 33 centers of expertise working with identified subject matter experts. In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. Why didn’t KM save General Motors? Is it possible to reduce the downside?
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
    Is remote work bad for introverts?
    In it Sagba focuses on her personal experience as an introverted “workshifter,” relating her ups and downs as she’s attempted to strike the right the balance between solitary work and social interaction: I’ve been dipping my toes into the workshifting pool since 2009. Is remote working the solution to the problem?
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
    It’s not about knowledge transfer
    In 2009 I listened to Peter Senge’s keynote address at the CSTD national conference. His research findings showed that the average life expectancy of large companies is about 30 years, but some are over 200 years old, and the key driver for their longevity is organizational learning. Learning really spreads through social networks.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
    The Enduring Nature of Blogs and Blogging
    500 had a corporate blog, up from 45% in 2009 and 39% in 2008.  Nora Ganim Barnes and her colleagues at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have looked at business blogs for some time. In 2010 50% of the Inc.   Now in 2011, the use of blogging dropped to 37%.  
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012
    Social Media Use By Students With Disabilities
    link] They surveyed a convenience sample of 723 students/recent graduates with disabilities, in 2009, in Canada. This looks an interesting article: Asuncion, J. et al (2012) "Social Media Use By Students With Disabilities." Academic Exchange Quarterly , 16 (1). The most used service was Youtube (91%). social networking research
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012
    Gas prices up? Time to remember remote work again
    “Analyzing its current data in aggregate, CNT found that, between 2000 and 2009, US transportation and housing costs increased at nearly twice the rate of incomes.  Gas prices are once again high enough to warrant a flurry of media coverage. Prices shouldn’t control our interest in telework. Sign up for a free trial.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
    Who Controls Our Data? A Puzzle.
    And of course, the inability of Facebook and Google to cut a data sharing deal back in 2009 is one of the major reasons Google built Google+. ( image ) Facebook claims the data we create inside Facebook is ours – that we  own  it. In the conversation, I asked Fischer if we owned our own data. He said yes. But what if they were?
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
    A mixed bag
    Telegraph : Twitter sells tweet archive to marketers – via @sebfiedler [Note: you can access my weekly Friday's Finds for free, going back to May 2009]. Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. Churchill ” – via @cyetain. “  JOHO The Blog. ” Trusted Space.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
    Flexible work isn’t working for most
    companies in all sectors that the Center conducted in 2009. Flexible working is often touted not only as a way to improve employee morale and motivation , but also a benefit that helps stretched families maintain their sanity and their budgets despite economic and time pressures. In these sectors, flexibility is not an option to be desired.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
    Do You Have A Twitter Addiction? Do You Have A Connection Addiction?
    Now this is a topic I have covered before – see for example my 2009 post, Is Twitter Like Going Out for a Smoke? In 2009 I wrote about a Study of Social Media Addiction from Retrevo. Sameer Patel aka @sameerpatel pointed to an interesting article in the Guardian through Twitter. Powerful stuff this Twitter. added the following.
  • WWW.INFOQ.COM  |  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012
    InfoQ: Social + Lean = Agile
    His passion for addressing fundamental business challenges was the genesis for his latest venture, Consilience International, which he founded with William Malyk in 2009. Close. Existing Users: Email. Password. Forgot password? New Users: Register now. InfoQ. InfoQ. En | ?? | ??? 562,907 Jan unique visitors. Skip to Content. Login. Register.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
    Yammer time: Collaboration from the heart
    When Supervalu’s CEO Craig Herkert started in 2009, he aimed to transform the company through “ radical transparency ” and give the stores a hyperlocal focus to better meet their customers’ needs. For a three year-old enterprise social network, Yammer has a sophisticated understanding of how customers come to value their tools. 
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
    What Happens When Sharing Is Turned Off? People Don’t Dance.
    Thanks to partners like Microsoft, Intel, SuperFly, Federated Media and scores of individuals, CrowdFire actually happened at Outside Lands, both in 2008 and in 2009. One of only two photos to emerge from last night's Wilco concert, image Eric Henegen. But there you have it. So why am I telling you about it? But more on that later.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
    Shifts in 2011 Inc. 500 Social Media Usage
    500 had a corporate blog, up from 45% in 2009 and 39% in 2008.  I have been writing about the work of Nora Ganim Barnes and her colleagues at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for some time. See my last post on them: Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies?
  • SOCIAL-BIZ.ORG  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012
    John Hagel on Social Technology Adoption | Collaborative Planning & Social Business
    December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. July 2009. June 2009. May 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. Collaborative Planning & Social Business. Skip to content. Home About Books Glossary Publications. Reply.
  • WWW.AIIM.ORG  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012
    When Social Meets Business Real Work Gets Done
    New Collaborative Tools for your Organizations Toughest Challenges was published in late 2009 by Harvard Business Publishing. Your Information Management & Collaboration Resource. Find, Control, and Optimize Your Information ® Login. About AIIM. Events. Membership. Community. Training. Research. Resource Center. My Account. AIIM UK.
  • WWW.ACCMANPRO.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
    KPMG’s social story AccMan
    consolidated financial statements at December 31, 2009. December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. expense of $72 million (after tax) for 2009 was recognized as a. Contact. T’s & C’s. About. Services. Sponsor AccMan. Calendar. KPMG’s social story. by admin on September 28, 2011. Tweet. Tweet. See below.  .
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
    What Might A Facebook Search Engine Look Like?
    This is what those 2009 negotiations broke down over , after all. ( image ) Dialing in from the department of Pure Speculation… As we all attempt to digest the implications of last week’s Google+ integration, I’ve also be thinking about Facebook’s next moves. What platform is that, you might ask? Stick with me here.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    Google Responds: No,That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken)
    In that story, I reported about 2009 negotiations over incorporation of Facebook data into Google search. In 2009, we were negotiating with Facebook over access to its data, as has been reported. I’ve also spoken to my Facebook source, who has clarified some nuance as well. So what does “publicly available” mean?
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    More businesses turning to contract workers, survey confirms
    28 percent for 2009. From the rise of sites like Elance and oDesk to the opinions of workforce researchers and even the anecdotal evidence of knowledge workers on the ground , evidence is mounting that the future will feature a whole lot more independent and contract workers. That’s up from: 34 percent for 2011. 30 percent for 2010.
  • WWW.DACHISGROUP.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
    101 Examples of Social Business ROI
    Community drove High School segment sales increased 40 percent from 2008 – 2009; portfolio mix of high school students increased by 27 percent. DellOutlet on Twitter generated $2 million direct sales, influenced $1 million addt’l (2007 – 2009). Direct2Dell Blog, 2009). Communispace, 2009). Collaboratory.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
    Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete?
    Back in 2009, on the Web 2 Summit stage of all places (yes, I was the emcee), Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter announced a flurry of deals, some of which were worked out in a last minute fury of negotiations. In fact, it’s rather unusual. This may take a while, and I will most likely get a fair bit wrong. Anyway…). Perhaps.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012
    Twitter Statement on Google+ Integration with Google Search
    For what it’s worth, I wrote about all this, after a fashion, in this post in 2009: Google v. The integration of Google+ into Google’s native search results has been at the top of Techmeme all day long. Just now I received an official statement from Twitter on the subject. wonder if Facebook is about to make a statement? Facebook?
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012: The Roundup
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. ( image ) As promised, here are all my predictions in one place. I’ve written a brief overview of each as well. Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Twitter will become a force as a media company, not just a platform for others’ media. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #7: Shooting From The Hip
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. This year I tried something new with my predictions, writing deeper posts on each one. got to six, but I underestimated how long it would take to write 1,000 or so words for each post. I’m pushing past 10,000 words for the past week, and “predictions season” is pretty much over.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #6: “The Corporation” Becomes A Central Societal Question Mark
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. Amidst all the chaos, tragedy, and tumult that was 2011, I noticed one very clear theme: Most of us are struggling with the role corporations play in our society. The 14th Amendment (yes, the one that banished slavery) established corporations, in the US, as “persons” in the legal sense.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. ( image ) One of the things that pops out of the “Big Five” chart I just posted, at least if you stare at it a bit, are the places where each company needs to get strong, quickly. Apple is weak in social and one dimensional in ad solutions. Amazon needs help in devices, social, and OS.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. By some Mayan accounts, 2012 is not going to be a good year for any of us. But in this prediction, I’m going to focus on one company that will have a pretty crazy year: Google. It all adds up to a massive challenge that I think will come to a head in 2012. Yikes. Predictions 2011. 2008 How I Did.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. For my third prediction of the year, I’m going with one just a tad bit less obvious than “Facebook will go public.” I’ve argued that Facebook ought to be a public company , if only to be held (somewhat) accountable given all the data it has on our lives. Predictions 2011.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
    Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. My predictions this year will be pretty focused on the Internet Big Five (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) but the first two focus on Twitter. Because Twitter is poised to become a critical “free radical” whose presence affects the actions of all the Big Five players.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
    Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2012 is going to be a year of contrasts – of consolidation of power for the Internet Big Five , and fragmentation and disruption of that power due to both startups as well as government and consumer action. Well, because I’d like to dig in a bit on each. Let me break this into two parts.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2012
    Missing Pieces: The Activity Stream Aggregator
    What drove interest in standardizing activity streams in the consumer market is linked to FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook in 2009). Industry discussions on the value of activity streams have been going on for a few years. The concept is pretty straightforward. Social network sites (e.g., That permission might be direct, or indirect (e.g.,
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2011
    The 10 stories that defined tech in 2011
    Jha (Motorola) onstage at Mobilize 2009. While 2011 was a very busy year for the technology industry, the constant rate of innovation and activity in the market shows that things probably won’t slow down in 2012. AT&T’s $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile. Facebook makes its data center details public. Spotify launches in the US.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011
    The State of the Blogosphere 2011
    Here is a 2009 post I did on Why You Should keep Blogging in the Age of Twitter. Brian Solis recently posted on the results from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2011 survey. This survey is something I have followed for a while. Here are some thoughts on the State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006. Many bloggers have more than one.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011
    2011 Predictions: How Did I Do?
    2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. ( image ) For many years now I’ve made predictions, and for just as many years I review how I did. This is the week I do the reviewing, my predictions for 2012 should arrive around the New Year, assuming I find the right inspiration. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. Why no angry nerds?
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011
    Prezi zooms forward with $14m from Accel
    Prezi — which is based in Budapest, Hungary and has offices in San Francisco– kicked up a real fuss when it first appeared in 2009 for one simple reason: it delivered a neat twist on the PowerPoint-style engine. If the way people actually use Prezi catches up with the concept, then maybe it could catch fire again.
  • WWW.THECONTENTECONOMY.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2011
    The Content Economy: Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture
    2009. The Content Economy. Pages. About. Speaking. Presentations. Writings. Contact. Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture. Tightly controlled communication flows. Hence it is unthinkable that an employee will communicate directly with the CEO, and vice versa. By Oscar Berg. SUMMIT.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011
    Mock Thesis Proposal: Personal Support Networks During Periods Of Employee Transition, Part 1
    Some examples of what we can learn from this work include: The role of publics in a SNS and how its affordances help people construct identity is often discussed in consumer contexts (boyd, 2011; Ellison, 2011; Pearson 2009). Participatory culture is often examined in the context of youth, media, and education (Jenkins, 2009).
  • CLARK QUINN  |  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011
    Slow Learning – #change11
    2009). Michael Allen’s eLearning Annual 2009. This is a longer post launching my week in the #change11 MOOC (Massively Open Online Course).  . Our formal learning approaches too often don’t follow how our brains really work.  Our limitations are no longer the technology, but our imaginations. like to look at this a couple of ways.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2011
    Facebook and the FTC Announce A Deal, For Now
    The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook have come to terms on consumer privacy, an issue the FTC formally raised in an eight-count complaint  earlier this year. Both sides have announced the pact in their own particular way. On Facebook’s blog , CEO Mark Zuckerberg strikes a diplomatic tone with a dash of mea culpa. It didn’t. It did.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
    Literature Review: Improving Work Practices in Times of Change
    The concept of “social roles” has been by studied by examining people’s interactions within discussion forums and other types of social media (Gleave, Welser, Lento, & Smith, 2009). 2009). 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009. 2009). 2009). Next up: a mock thesis due early December. .
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
    Is telework feeling the economic squeeze?
    According to 2009 U.S. For exactly all of its obvious benefits to productivity , the environment and even the bottom line, telecommuting has experienced explosive growth. Nor is the uptake of telecommuting speeding up, according to recent research. Census data, 61 percent more employees considered home their primary place of work versus 2005.
  • TONY KARRER  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
    eLearning Conferences 2012
    Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Clayton R. Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. It covers events from four continents. https://registration.livegroup.co.uk/ssatnationalconference/
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
    Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies?
    This is the same as 2010 and only one more than 2009. In 2011, 91% of the F500 blogs take comments, have RSS feeds and take subscriptions and this is an increase of 1% since 2009 and 2010. This study continues their annual research started in 2008 they released one of the first studies of the Fortune 500 (F500) adoption. million fans. 
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
    Connected workaholism: global edition
    The number of IT pros working more than 40 hours a week rose from 65 percent in 2009 to nearly three-quarters this year (74.9 percent reported working 50 or more hours per week compared with just over 10 percent in 2009. Being constantly connected to work via your laptop or smartphone has huge advantages. percent today).
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011
    Sheffield University, Information Literacy and IBL
    2009) Information Literacy: The Case for Strategic Engagement. 2009) Can't I just upload it to the VLE? At the moment I am in Edmonton, Canada, preparing presentations for the Augustana Information Literacy workshop at the University of Alberta, Canada. This is why there has been a couple of days gap in my blogging. link] - Parker, L.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011
    Senators try again to eliminate dual tax on telecommuters
    ” Kasperowicz offers no information on how likely it is that the proposed legislation will actually become law, but as the bill was introduced at least as early as 2009 and never made it out of committee , it doesn’t appear that being a common sense measure is enough to ensure swift passage. The post by Pete Kasperowicz reports: Sens.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011
    Quotes, fraud and wealth destruction
    But from 1979 to 2009, productivity rose by 80%, while the income of the bottom fifth fell by 4%. Tweet Here are some insights and observations shared via Twitter this past week. Name a “working” institution. Just one. Better yet, define a “working” institution. See the problem?  -  @umairh. – @techherding.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
    Annotated Bibliography: Background For Literature Review Project
    2009). 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009. Presented at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2009. 2009). 2009). There are several additional resources I plan to add. References. Albrechtslund, A. 2008). Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011
    Six thoughts on the Klout scoring changes
    I’ve written extensively on this blog about influence and influence networks over the last six years, and in fact our Future of Influence Summit 2009 had Klout CEO Joe Fernandez and other luminaries of the emerging influence space speak on the business models for influence and reputation panel.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011
    5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy
    2009 survey by McKinsey Quarterly asked which incentives were the most effective in motivating employees. The Googleplex, Google’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View California, is legendary for its perks. Employees have access to unlimited free meals, haircuts, dry cleaning, massages, and even onsite medical care. Neither did salary.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
    Help Me Interview the Founders of Quora (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
    Cheever and D'Angelo enjoy (or suffer from) Facebook alumni pixie dust - they left the social giant to create Quora in 2009. Next up on the list of interesting folks I'm speaking with at Web 2 are Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo , the founders of Quora. They've also snagged funding led by Benchmark. What should I ask its founders?
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
    Help Me Interview the Founders of Quora (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
    Cheever and D’Angelo enjoy (or suffer from) Facebook alumni pixie dust – they left the social giant to create Quora in 2009. Next up on the list of interesting folks I’m speaking with at Web 2 are Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo , the founders of Quora. They’ve also snagged funding led by Benchmark.
  • ANECDOTE   |  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011
    Using social norms to change behaviour
    In 2009, Georgetown launched its " You Don't Know Jack " campaign , featuring the university's beloved bulldog mascot. People are highly sensitive to social norms - information about what other people are doing and what they approve of. You can use the concept of social norms to help drive and create change. Other examples include.
  • ROSSDAWSONBLOG.COM  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011
    Compulsory viewing: A CEO perspective on the business value of internal social networks | Trends in the Living Networks
    December 2009 (18). November 2009 (16). October 2009 (20). September 2009 (30). August 2009 (33). July 2009 (19). June 2009 (21). May 2009 (25). April 2009 (23). March 2009 (13). February 2009 (16). January 2009 (9). About Ross Dawson. Keynote Speaking/Strategy.
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011
    The future of work is to freelance within an organisation - choose your task, assemble to work, then dissolve
    The future of work thinking, or real enterprise 2.0 thinking covers many points in the shift of current organisational design; just ask Jon Husband , Gary Hamel and Deb Lavoy. John Hagel describes this knowledge worker 2.0 shift well: In those days, the role of the individual was to follow instructions. Service is quite different. Freelance.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
    Google = Google+
    In 2009, Google's brand = search. Earlier this week I participated in Google's partner conference , entitled Zeitgeist after the company's annual summary of trending topics. Deep readers of this site know I have a particular affection for the original Zeitgeist, first published in 2001. That was the brand: Google = search. And YouTube.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
    Data super friends: can social media and enterprise applications team up?
    An early investor in SnapLogic , Gaurav Dhillon joined as CEO in 2009 when he saw the tremendous potential for the company’s cloud and on-premise integration products, strategy, and unique business model. But how are companies in other industries leveraging the big data that’s erupting from social media services? The roadblocks.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
    Fring tries to one-up Google Hangouts with Playgrounds
    That service, originally launched in 2009, automatically pairs users with a random stranger for voice, video and text-based chat. One of the better features of Google+ is Hangouts , in my opinion. It’s a quick, easy way to have a drop-in video chat experience with either a tightly focused or broad group of people.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
    Looking for a new job? How about data scientist?
    spoke with Anjul Bhambhri , IBM’s Vice President of Big Data Products and the 2009 recipient of the YWCA of Silicon Valley’s “Tribute to Women in Technology” Award. Think of all the text, images, video streams, and transaction logs added to the Internet and intranets every minute via social media, online shopping, and just work.
  • BOXES AND ARROWS  |  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
    Alignment Diagrams
    See the original details of the event from 2009 [1] ). Did you ever get bounced around between departments when interacting with a company or service? This happened to me recently with my credit card: the card issuer and the bank backing it seemed to disagree who was responsible for my problem. Each blamed the other. got caught in the middle.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
    The continuing devaluation of LinkedIn connections
    In early 2009 LinkedIn capped the number of connections any person can have at 30,000. How many LinkedIn requests are you getting? Very likely significantly more than you were getting just a few months ago. LinkedIn reached 100 million users in March. Until recently I looked at all of the LinkedIn invitations I received. Enterprise 2.0
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
    The Freelance Revolution
    Entrepreneurial activity in 2009 was at its highest level in 14 years, online freelance job postings skyrocketed in 2010, and companies are increasingly outsourcing work. I’ve been talking about free agents as the future of work on this blog almost since I started it. Doing my own tech support. Only working seven days a week.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011
    Learning styles
    2009) Learning Styles Debunked: There is No Evidence Supporting Auditory and Visual Learning, Psychologists Say. There has been an interesting discussion on the ili discussion list about learning styles, and whether or not it is valuable to design learning to engage with differing learning styles. Association for Psychological Science. link].
  • WWW.GIATALKS.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011
    Win a free half-day workshop with me! » Connected
    CSC ‘s rate of adoption between their May 18, 2009 full launch date and June 15, 2010 was about 4,000 employees per month , out of approximately 95,000 employees. Home Content RSS Log in Connected Connected Home About My Passion Speaking Win a free half-day workshop with me! Previous Entry: What’s with all this Chatter business?
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011
    Gartner Reports that Big Data Challenges Go Beyond Managing Large Volumes of Data
    have also heard from several sources that in 2009 more content was created online than in the entire prior history of content. Big Data is certainly a hot topic. went to a session on Big Data Analytics for Social Media at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. According to Gartner, this can leaving massive challenges to be addressed later.
  • THE FASTFORWARD BLOG  |  FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2011
    Review of Business Goes Virtual: Making Sense of Social
    The authors report that on Christmas Day 2009, consumers purchased more Kindle books than physical books through Amazon, a virtual store itself. Recently, I received a review copy of Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies by John P. Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn L. Girard.  Enterprise 2.0
  • WWW.DUPERRIN.COM  |  TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011
    Enterprise 2.0 : adoption through social routine | Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad
    October 27, 2009 Posted by Bertrand DUPERRIN at 4:00 pm Add comments enterprise 2.0 , Organization & Management , social computing , Social Networking Tagged with: adoption , enterprise 2.0 , process , routine , social routine , workflows [link] Is Collaboration a Crock? entrepreneurship HR & Management 2.0 Antoine Riboud. project. 
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011
    Social Media Use Continues to Expand in US Higher Education
    The 2009 data shows another drop to 18%, then to 15% in 2010.  A new study by Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Lescault, Social Media Adoption Soars as Higher-Ed Experiments and Reevaluates Its Use of New Communications Tools , provides some useful results. They began to look at this issue in 2007. In 2008 that figure dropped to 22%.
  • BLOGS.FORBES.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011
    Cooking up Tasks and Workflows on the Social Web - Rawn Shah - Connected Business - Forbes
    Originally founded in early 2009 in Copenhagen, Podio offers much more beyond interaction with people or groups; it provides real apps and forms-based tools that anyone can build into the service. pride myself in being able to cook a good paella dish and also my ‘tour of world curries’. In many ways, this helps us develop the instinct (e.g.,
  • WWW.SOCIALTEXT.COM  |  TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011
    Companies Aren’t Communities | Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext
    Contact Sales +1 (650) 331-7307 | Login Enterprise Social Software Blog Try Socialtext Today All Posts Application Development Customer Success Enterprise 2.0 News & Events Product Updates Tips & Tricks Enterprise 2.0 They aren’t forums. Companies are companies. Why does the difference matter? Let’s look at the numbers. deploy
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011
    Governance as opportunity: Governance, risk, and compliance in the cloud
    According to IDC research, we are moving from 800 Exabytes of data created in 2009 to 35 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2020. One of my key themes is that of governance as enabler. Today I’m at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium , where I earlier gave the opening keynote on The Future of Information Infrastructure. Cloud
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2011
    Health Information Literacy
    Angela Arner linked to a pdf which contains a health literacy curriculum for young people that was developed and evaluated in 2009: Who Can You Trust? Health Information and the Internet. Information Society discipline - health USA schools sector
  • ANECDOTE   |  THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
    Different ways to envisage the future
    On the 19 January 2009, RBS announced a loss of AS41.65bn, the biggest ever annual loss in UK corporate history. How do you get your people to think about what the future could be, in a way that inspires them and starts to spark action, but also takes into account the simple fact that the future is unpredictable? Strategic clarity
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011
    Review of The Social Marketing Funnel
    reported in a 2009 study that 91% of Inc. I recently looked at a useful new book , The Social Marketing Funnel: Driving Business Value with Social Marketing. It is sponsored by Awareness and available as a free download. The book begins with some interesting stats. 500 companies use social media as part of their marketing mix1.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011
    Review of Business Goes Virtual
    The authors report that on Christmas Day 2009, consumers purchased more Kindle books than physical books through Amazon, a virtual store itself. I recently received a review copy of Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies by John P. Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn L. Girard. 
  • BROWSE.WORKLITERACY.COM  |  SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2011
    Knowledge Work Emergent Collaboration - Work Literacy
    The FASTForward Blog - Sunday, March 8, 2009 READ MORE Have we been doing Enterprise 2.0 Home | Blog | About Participate Services People | Subscribe Subscribe to Aggregated Feed + Links Top Keywords [?] 360 Degree Reviews. Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. Making social learning work.
  • WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM  |  THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011
    Why IBM Represents The Future Of Social Business
    That is pretty much the reason IBM acquired SPSS in late 2009. );i.close();});})(); Login With Facebook | Login With Twitter | Login | Register SAI Contributors Home Tech Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Europe Travel Data Misc. 20, 2011, 3:15 PM | 7,364 | 7 A A A x Email Article Email Sent!
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011
    LifeSize wants to simplify enterprise video conferencing
    LifeSize , a supplier of video conferencing products that was acquired by Logitech in 2009 , is aiming to address those issues and to make video conferencing simpler to deploy and use by announcing some new products Wednesday. Traditional enterprise HD video conferencing and telepresence products tend to suffer from a few drawbacks.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2011
    New book
    Photo by Sheila Webber: Cherries, 2009 (birds got them all this year). Pope, A. and Walton, G. Eds) (2011) Information literacy: infiltrating the agenda, challenging minds. Oxford: Chandos Publishing. The Amazon page is here. resources
  • THE FASTFORWARD BLOG  |  MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011
    Social Networking on the Job Now ‘Okay’: Workplace Survey
    This is up from 19 percent in 2009. Social networking has become the norm for business communication, a new Robert Half Technology survey suggests. The survey was based on telephone interviews with more than 1,400 CIOs from companies across the United States with 100 or more employees.  Their responses: 2011. Prohibited completely.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011
    Chrome breaks 20 percent global browser market share
    percent in June 2009. Google’s Chrome browser is continuing to grow in popularity. According to StatCounter, a website analytics company, Chrome is now used by a fifth of Internet users worldwide, taking 20.7 percent of the global browser market in June , up from just 2.8 percent in May.
  • NANCY WHITE  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
    7 Minute Segments & Experts
    This is a new, complicated, and very fast-moving market,” Dennis Woodside, who took over as President, Americas, in 2009 when Tim Armstrong jumped ship to become CEO of AOL, tells Fast Company. CC Some rights reserved by Mundoo on Flickr. I’m not a big fan of “training&# — it feels like something we do “unto&# others.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011
    What We Hath Wrought: The Book
    Back in September of 2009, I hired Deanna Brown as President and COO of Federated Media. (Image: Samuel Morse, source Wikipedia). Sometime today the following blurb was sent to the book publishing trade press: Author of The Search , co-founder of Wired , founder of Federated Media, Inc., and Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 And here we are.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011
    Facebook articles
    2009). 2009). Not totally new, but I just came acroos this item: Baran, B. 2010) "Facebook as a formal instructional environment." British Journal of Educational Technology , 41 (6), E146–E149. This has a brief evaluation of an intervention using Facebook as the focus for a class, including for assessment. Meek, J., Wellens, J. web 2.0
  • NANCY WHITE  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011
    Guest Post: Adejare Amoo on an Industrialist’s Role in eLearning in Africa
    He participated in many international online education forums and webinars, including the e-Learning Expert Online Forum 2009, organized by UNU-ViE, Bonn. Nancy’s Note: In June I was lucky to help facilitate a couple of events for UN University at eLearning Africa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read on! And thanks to Adejare! CONCLUSION.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
    i3 report: source credibility, and using wikipedia creation for IL #i3_conference
    2009)" In search of credibility: pupils' information practices in learning environments." I chaired a session with two research papers involving Wikipedia yesterday at the i3 conference at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen [link]. It’s rude (I think) to blog and chair at the same time, so I’m relying on my notes and the abstracts.
  • BLOGS.HBR.ORG  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
    Introducing the Collaboration Curve - John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison - John Hagel III and John Seely Brown - Harvard Business Review
    It tells how the first fax machine gave little value to its owner--after all, there was no one else with whom to send and receive faxes. As time went by, however, the value of that first machine increased as other people bought fax machines, and soon its owner could send faxes to the far corners of the earth, and receive them in return.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
    i3 report: development of LIS research in the UK #i3_conference
    The research Coalition has funding for 3 years, with support from JISC, British Library, CILIP, MLA and the Research Information Network, and it was launched in 2009. In particular, she was talking about the UK's Library and Information Science Research Coalition. and enhance career progression and retention.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011
    i3 report: Exploring Undergraduates’ Information Worlds #i3_conference
    survey in 2009 had indicated that three quarters of the IL teaching was done as part of credit classes, not involving librarians. Lisa M. This study assesses skill development (in students in the final school years and post-school) and explores their "perceptions of how IL contributes to their academic engagement and success".
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011
    SocialBase: Social media task management
    oneforty , the company that started as a Twitter app store in 2009 and expanded into a buyer’s guide to social media consultants and software earlier this year, has now debuted its own enterprise social media task management software, SocialBase. You’ll need to log in with Twitter.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011
    Google just got serious about mobile
    Google’s “Goggles&# mobile application has allowed people to search by taking photos with their mobile phones since its launch in 2009. It looks like the power balance between desktop computers and mobile devices has finally shifted for good. Here’s what Google showed off: Voice search.  Search by image.  Instant Pages. 
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011
    Communication app Convos shutting down: What are the alternatives?
    Convos, a group communication tool that I covered back in 2009 , has notified its customers by email that it will be shutting down as of June 30, 2011. Our growth has been steady, and we’ve definitely had our share of growing pains. Wiggio. Samuel liked its beta back in 2008. Groupsite. GroupSpaces. Discuss This. OnlineGroups.net.
  • BLOG.SEMANTICFOUNDRY.COM  |  SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2011
    The Social Software Primer: 13 Books You Must Read | Semantic Foundry, LLC
    Further, to discuss strategy and design patterns in social media site architecture/design and their impact on human behavior requires at the very least a general understanding of the writing on topics concerning sociology, social networking theory, anthropology and marketing. Until now, at least, I have not seen a list compiled of essential reading.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011
    EMPATIC report: school library initiative in Southern Poland
    2009) Kultura informacyjna w perspektywie zmian w edukacji. In this post on the EMPATIC project seminar on Information Literacy (IL) in the Schools Sector, held in Krakow, Poland on 8 June, I will report on the talk by Hanna Batorowska , who had led a long term and successful initiative in school libraries.
  • WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
    Building Social Business: ROI of Enterprise 2.0 at Accenture
    Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. at Accenture Tweet My friend Karthik S recently shared a very interesting page on Accenture about their Social Software and how it benefit them. enterprise2.0
  • WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
    Building Social Business: Social Intranet: Collaboration in the social context of Enterprise 2.0 using Qontext
    Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. using Qontext Tweet The week before last I was given a demo by the folks at Qontext on their social intranet and social sales product. Whats Your Cause?
  • WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
    Building Social Business: Thoughts on Enterprise 2.0 and the Social Intranet
    Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. and the Social Intranet Tweet Image by Ed Yourdon via Flickr What is the difference between Enterprise 2.0 and a "social" intranet? While E2.0 India License.
  • WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
    Building Social Business: Next Step for Social Business - Making ERP social and collaborative
    Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. One key aspect of Social "contextual collaboration" is that it often creates silos - ironically. Posted by Gautam Ghosh at 08:01 Email This BlogThis!
 

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