Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Last week I gave the opening keynote at IPZ2009 Interactive Marketing Summit in Istanbul. Here are my slides for my keynote on the Future of Interactive Marketing. It was a fantastic event, the fourth annual IPZ conference organized by Günseli Özen Ocako?lu and Hakan Senbir of Marketing & Management Institute, which publishes a range of leading magazines including Marketing Türkiye.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. 54% US Companies Ban Social Media. and That's Fine. According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology , an IT staffing company, 54 percent of U.S. companies say theyâ??

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 12, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, October 12, 2009. Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 27, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Infrastructure 2.0 – A Virtual Analogy. Is OS virtualization an end in itself? Is it both necessary and sufficient for all things Cloud and IaaS? Is it the panacea IT Operations has been looking for?

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Today marks the launch of Amazon RDS - the Amazon Relational Database Service. Amazon RDS is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Amazon RDS handles all the "muck" of relational database management freeing up its users to focus on their applications and business.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

OCTOBER 30, 2009

[photo credit: "Knowledge Management," originally uploaded by F. Montino ]. Today's Boston KM Forum Meeting at Bentley University focused on "Personal Knowledge Management," and I was fortunate to attend three interesting and divergent sessions. The first was a panel discussion focused on personal information management. The speaker from I took away the most actionable content was Stever Robbins , aka "The Get-it-Done Guy.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

Image via Wikipedia This isn’t new, Louis C.K. ranted this on Conan’s show in 2008. I came across it recently and felt like sharing. I don’t really know much about Louis C.K., this is really the first thing I’ve seen of him, but I think he makes some excellent points. Happiness is learning to appreciate what you have. We live in an amazing time exceeding the dreams of our grandparents.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 16, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Friday, October 16, 2009. Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek - and its Innovative Digital Team.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Seb's Open Research: The Fate of the Incompetent Teacher in the YouTube Era. It's only when the tide goes out that you can see who has been swimming naked.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2009

'Open Cities and Social Media. In 1940 the French declared Paris an “open” city so the invading Nazi Army would not destroy it while capturing it. Today modern cities are starting to declare themselves “open” in slightly more trusting ways, by exposing their data and information to all citizens and, indeed, to anyone on the Internet.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

OCTOBER 30, 2009

[photo credit: "Knowledge Management," originally uploaded by F. Montino ]. Today's Boston KM Forum Meeting at Bentley University focused on "Personal Knowledge Management," and I was fortunate to attend three interesting and divergent sessions. The first was a panel discussion focused on personal information management. The speaker from I took away the most actionable content was Stever Robbins , aka "The Get-it-Done Guy.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Yesterday I was interviewed on the Business Today program on the Australia Network, ABC TV's international network which broadcasts across Asia. The interview can also be viewed along with other material in Business Today's archives. Key points covered in the interview include: * Building business relationships increasingly happens online. * People have leapt at the opportunity to connect online - this is part of who we are. * Companies are networks working in a networked world - social networks

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Today marks the last post of my blog-a-thon. It has been a learning and growing experience. I have blogged more time in the past 4 weeks as I did the prior 52. It was challenging and rewarding. I feel I have developed as a blogger and having 3 posts a week has brought the blog to the front of my mind. Not only did I write many articles, but I’ve started a bunch more and have ideas for even more than that.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 8, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, October 08, 2009. Twitter outage - and Why Consistent Performance on Social Networks is Hard.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Sydney Finkelstein, Ph.D.: Paul Farmer -- The Need for "Systems Thinking" in Health Care (Video).

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

'Tech Trends on the Upswing. In my previous blog entry , I discussed some of the “downswing” trends in IT in local government. This column will be about trends on the upswing – gaining prominence and resources – in cities and counties. Most of this information came from discussions with CIOs of other large cities and counties around the country, held at the Metropolitan Information Exchange (MIX) conference in Albuquerque in September.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

OCTOBER 30, 2009

[photo credit: "Knowledge Management," originally uploaded by F. Montino ]. Today's Boston KM Forum Meeting at Bentley University focused on "Personal Knowledge Management," and I was fortunate to attend three interesting and divergent sessions. The first was a panel discussion focused on personal information management. The speaker from I took away the most actionable content was Stever Robbins , aka "The Get-it-Done Guy.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Now here is a new spin on augmented reality apps: just out on the iPhone is Sun Seeker, from Graham Dawson, the creator of the best-selling Oz Weather and Climate Eye. See Graham's blog for a detailed description of the augmented reality Sun Seeker app. In brief, when you look through the camera you see the current location and the path of the sun superimposed, allowing you to see where the sun will be at any point in time during the day (or night).

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

While it may not seem intuitive taking time out to selflessly help others will help you more than them. This week I haven’t had much time to blog largely because this week many opportunities arose to help others and I took them. Some at work, some outside of work. Helping others will endear them to you. Not only will you ultimately benefit more than what you’ve invested in helping others, but you will also make a real difference in the lives of those whom you work with.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 6, 2009

'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, October 06, 2009. Ten Reasons Software Developers Need the Cloud.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The "cure" for autism, and the fight over it. | Psychology Today. From John Elder Robison.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2009

'Assoc of City/County CIOs. MIX, the Metropolitan Information Exchange , recently concluded our annual conference in Albuquerque. MIX is a group of about 55 CIOs of major cities and counties. The conference is always good, not just for its presentations, but particularly for the hallway and brainstorming conversations about issues and trends in local government information technology.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types. One of the most oft-repeated themes at this years VMworld was that of "automation." Everybody claimed they had it, but on closer investigation it had any number of poorly-defined meanings.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Most business owners recognise that there are many social media tools that can help them run their businesses more effectively. The problem is sorting through the plethora of tools that are available today to work out what to use, and how to use it. Mashable has come out with a useful list of 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for Business , mentioning: 1.

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SPF13

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC. Microsoft is holding these all over the country to prepare IT and developers for the upcoming launch. Overall it was a good meeting and Microsoft is delivering a great product. More importantly they have a really good chance of overcoming the bad taste of vista and emerge as a innovation leader.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Windows 7 launch notes. I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54 percent of U.S. companies say they’ve banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace while at work. Source: 54% of Companies ban Facebook, Twitter… We should be shocked that this number isn’t higher. Let’s look at this realistically.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

As social media continues to emerge, many professionals are curious on what is the best way to manage these various networks. For posting updates I have found ping.fm an invaluable resource. I use it to manage updates across all my networks including Twitter, Facebook,LinkedIn, Flicker, FriendFeed and more. Here’s the skinny on how I utilize this resource.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

I’ve made the decision to take control of my feeds. I want to know how many users are reading my blog via syndication so I’ve decided to move to feedburner. The migration will be seamless for all readers. Additionally I’ll be able to provide syndication via email as well. How to Migrate from Drupal to FeedBurner These directions are written with Drupal in mind, though the approach used would work for pretty much any system.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Social media will be the next innovation in the most unlikely of places, search ( leveraging the community to scale infinitely ). It’s not that people will all together stop searching, but the approach that they take to finding information will become increasingly social (rather than algorithmic) in nature. For the last decade, search always seems on the cusp of “intelligent” results.

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