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Covering your Social Tracks

Collaboration 2.0

Facebook, the current common denominator social graph provider, have rolled out another component which they have turned on by default between you and your friends within the USA (and who knows who else behind the scenes). Your friends can now ‘check you in‘ to a geographical location at a specific time (much as they can tag [.

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Thinking Out Loud: What's Driving Groupon?

John Battelle's Searchblog

In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon. He writes: " But it seems unlikely that it’s going to become a revolutionary company, along the lines of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google.Groupon, by contrast, is a much more old-school business. It doesn’t have any obvious technological advantage.

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TEDxSB – Inspired Environments

Daradiction

My TEDxSB talk on Inspired Environments. After watching this video I got inspired to get a tan, hit the gym, and cut down my sugar intake by 80%. What a positive difference this has made in my energy levels and well being. Click here to view the embedded video.

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eDiplomacy: The US State Department's Global Collaborative Backbone

Collaboration 2.0

The United States Department of State (often referred to as the State Department), is responsible for the international relations of the United States and equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries. The Department was created in 1789 and was the first executive department established. Currently lead by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the department is [.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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You'll Never Walk Alone

Collaboration 2.0

If you follow the soccer world you’ll probably be aware of the high noon around the storied Liverpool Football Club, seventh in the The Deloitte Football Money League (a ranking of football clubs by revenue) whose current owners, messrs Hicks & Gillett, are currently two of the most hated people in England. Hicks and Gillett purchased [.

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Planning Your Online Lives in 2011

Collaboration 2.0

Whether you are job hunting or working, the challenges of personal control of your online personality at work, societally and socially have never been more complex. A hundred years ago we had virtually no data associated with us beyond possibly owning a passport, a few pieces of legal paperwork and maybe some national security files about us we [.

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Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad - Get your Entry In!

Collaboration 2.0

If you’re an Enterprise 2.0 entrepreneur, you’ve got until August 30 to Twitter pitch #e2conf-lp Paige Finkelman of the US Enterprise 2.0 Conference your ‘Launch Pad’ contest entry for consideration by the jury (which includes me), and broader audience votes. The contest, to be held at the West Coast US edition of the show in November, [.

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MacBook Air First Impressions

Collaboration 2.0

My new MacBook Air has arrived, shipped from Shanghai on October 23rd after I ordered it post ‘Apple Special Event‘ and arriving in San Francisco on the 27th. First impressions: as light as an empty ringbinder and impressively fast. You can see the 11 second boot time in the short video above, where it sits next [.

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Enterprise Culture & People: Where Reality Happens

Collaboration 2.0

I’ve just been reading reactions to last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference, which includes the endless sector name parlor game, and discussions around whether the market space is on Bambi legs, maturing …or as dead as John Cleese’s parrot. It’s all of those things and more depending on where you’re sitting, what you’ve experienced and what [.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Wikileaks: Collaboration vs Silos & Stovepipes

Collaboration 2.0

I expect more than a few CIO’s have reached for the Pepto Bismol after hearing the news about WikiLeaks releasing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables on the public internet, given how similar the situation is to their responsibilities for protecting data and information. Diplomatic embassy ‘cables’Â containing confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries [.

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The Socialist Revolution is Coming!

Collaboration 2.0

nGenera relaunched their company and software packages this week, renaming themselves ‘Moxie Software‘ (with ‘nGenera Insights‘, their research and consulting arm, continuing as a sub brand). We’re in the thick of the fall conference season now, and this announcement was probably timed to coincide with Jive Software’s ‘Jive World‘ social business customer conference.

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Useful ReadySteady Flip Camera Image Stabelizer

Collaboration 2.0

Despite the amazing advances in hi def video devices there are still huge issues with the competence of the person behind the camera. Lighting and camera stability are two fundamentals of watchable video, and if you own Flip cameras I’m sure you’ve been disappointed by your herky jerky footage of important [.

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'Open Enterprise 2009' Winners One Year On

Collaboration 2.0

Stowe Boyd and I awarded the ‘Open Enterprise 2009‘ award to Booz Allan Hamilton for their ‘Hello’ environment at the Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference a year ago, and I caught up with Megan Murray of the BAH team one year on to see how their environment was progressing at this year’s Boston event. While it’s relatively [.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Dot Com Bust: Ten Years After.

Collaboration 2.0

It’s ten years since the dot com bubble began to seriously deflate; the financial climax had its high water mark on March 10, 2000 when the NASDAQ peaked at 5132.52. By September of that year people were starting to feel a lot less financially irrationally exuberant and started heading for the [.

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You'll Never Walk Alone: Passion, branding and the Liverpool Football Club

Collaboration 2.0

Whether a business is a sports club or a company like Harley Davidson motorcycles, having people who live what you stand for is a hugely desirable asset, but which is much more fragile than many people realize.

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Designing for Simplicity is Timeless

Collaboration 2.0

Now that ‘Twitter this’ and ‘Like’ buttons have sprouted everywhere online, and every coffee shop has their free blog and twitter account names taped to their windows, it’s fair to say that social media marketing is mature. With this ubiquity comes a greater challenge - the type of inconvenience we personally associate with telephone cold calls, [.

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Bill Kutik on HR Collaboration Options

Collaboration 2.0

A recording of a Skype conversation with Bill Kutik, the eminent independent Human Resources technology analyst who co-chairs the upcoming September 29 annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago. As chair of the HR track for the upcoming November Enterprise 2.0 conference I wanted to tap Bills’ expertise, and to discuss the state of the market.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Brave New Online World & Organizational Psychology

Collaboration 2.0

Centuries of study of the way humans interact have given us a deep body of psychological knowledge on our mental or emotional traits. The world of organizational psychology applies to the way we interact and collaborate (or not) in organizations and workplaces. The video above is a conversation with Michelle Johnston, an Industrial and Organizational Consultant [.

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Online No One Knows You're an Expert.

Collaboration 2.0

The always insightful JP Rangaswami ruminates around the internet ‘knowledge is power’ philosophical conundrum in his latest post. Fundamentally the web makes experts âdumbâ by reducing the privileged nature of their expertise, posits JP. For information to have power, it needs to be held asymmetrically. Preferably very, very asymmetrically, starts JP… If you can make sure that [.

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Come to the Cloud: Dreamforce

Collaboration 2.0

The Salesforce platform is starting to fill out into a stack that is a credible threat to other enterprise players well beyond their core sales roots. The Dreamforce event has been very accessible online - I spent a couple of hours at San Francisco’s Moscone Center earlier this week and have been keeping an eye [.

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The Aging Workforce

Collaboration 2.0

I got my paper copy of (US) Foreign Policy magazine in the mail yesterday and was startled by Philip Longman’s cover story ‘Old World‘, which details how global population is rapidly getting older… …It’s true that the world’s population overall will increase by roughly one-third over the next 40 years, from 6.9 to 9.1 [.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Your Social Life and Business Life: The Trust Issue

Collaboration 2.0

Most people outside the tech bubble go to work in order to make money in order to put a roof over their head and fund their personal social life - they work to live, not live to work…leave their cube on Friday, and flip their brain into social mode until Monday morning. These social lives [.

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Demilitarizing Collaboration: Designing Rules of Engagement

Collaboration 2.0

The reality of working with companies to help unlock the value of collaboration is that you are typically working behind their firewalls, unable to connect with the outside world. I’ve just spent a great deal of time last week working in Europe in the locked down environments of global companies, talking to various constituents exploring [.

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Distance Worker Mental Health Challenges

Collaboration 2.0

We don’t have any problem understanding that someone has a broken limb when we see them with their arm in plaster and a sling, but it takes us a while to understand that someone has mental health problems, since there are usually few obvious signs. Mental health issues typically only make the news when there is [.

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Mobile Boarding Pass Screen Capture

Collaboration 2.0

Many airlines now offer mobile boarding passes which enable you to check in using your phone - the challenge is whether you can invoke the relevant screen on your device as you’re about to board the plane. Essentially the sequence of events is that once you check in online you can opt to send your boarding [.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How to Accelerate Business Performance with 2.0 Technologies

Collaboration 2.0

With the big US Enterprise 2.0 conference a week away, some more thoughts on accelerating business performance with the effective deployment of these modern technologies.As previously discussed here, modern technology has greatly accelerated the rate at which we can create letters, documents, notes and voice communication, but these outdated workflow paradigms are inefficient and choking [.

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'Chief Collaboration Officer': Hansen's CxO Challenge

Collaboration 2.0

Morten Hansen asks ‘Who Should be Your Chief Collaboration Officer?’ in his blog on the Harvard Business Review (a website which has become a sort of business Oprah self help style site recently). I like Hansen’s sober and sensible book ‘Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results‘, one of the few [.

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Adobe Creative Suite 5: the Battle for your Eyeballs

Collaboration 2.0

Creative Suite 5, the latest compendium of creative and rich internet software from global creative workflow giant Adobe launches today. The various flavors and editions are comprised of various point products (with 250 new features) familiar to creative professionals, and Adobe as a highly creative company have done their usual stellar job of laying out all [.

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