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Thu Nov 12, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations. MORE
I very rarely find the time to write magazine articles, but I was delighted to write the opening feature article for MediaTitles 2010, an annual publication which covers the media and magazine industry. MORE
Many companies and workers are now daring to be optimistic as they put 2009 behind them, look forward to opportunities, and worry about getting left behind if things improve rapidly. While many lost their jobs in 2009, sparking a rise in home-based work such as direct selling, many others gave up self-employment to return to the workforce. Literally hundreds of newspapers around the world have shut their doors in 2009. MORE
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 MORE
Fri Oct 2, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Analyzing and Improving Conversion. MORE
Last week I did the keynote presentation in a webinar run by ITNews and Oracle on How to spark sales using social media apps. My presentation was titled The Future of Sales is Social. The slides are below, and you can listen to the on demand webinar here (registration required). MORE
Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Profiting from Technology Trends: Growth Summit 2009 View more presentations from rossdawson. MORE
Fri Mar 27, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed. MORE
The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing to bid farewell to helped to tear up the fairly linear progress of the first decade of the century. In his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century , James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive. For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history. MORE
Using the same methodology as my At current growth rates everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 2009! Everyone in the world will have a Twitter account by December 21 2009! MORE
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Dion Hinchcliffe has written a useful post titled Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices , reviewing some of the work in the space, and with the intent of building a broader catalog of best practices. MORE
Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Top keynote speech presentations/ videos of 2009. and organizational effectiveness. MORE
Friday, February 13, 2009. Yours-truly will be one of the speakers at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in NY March 30-April 1, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Join me at NYCs cloud computing expo. They have a very awesome agenda , including a keynote from Werner Vogels, Amazons CTO. MORE
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a zillion different file types and properly comments each. It can handle single line, multi line, partial line commenting as well as nesting. If you’re programming in VIM you really should be using it. It is simple enough to use. Most commands are mapped to ,c[character]. The command you are probably going to use the most is ,c which intelligently toggles a comment on or off MORE
I have been interested in the field of expertise location for over a decade, from back when knowledge managers were building 'corporate yellow pages' and other tools to find the best expertise in the organization. MORE
Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. In 2009, I will continue writing on agile but will largely focus on roles, responsibilities, and processes on the periphery. So on to 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Given the extreme popularity of our Social Media Strategy Framework , we decided to translate it into other languages. The translations have been serialized on my blog over the last couple of weeks, and here they are compiled into a single post. Social Media Strategy Framework in 11 languages. MORE
Image via Wikipedia Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal. If you know other top sites also powered by drupal, please list them in the comments below MORE
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Tomorrow morning I'm doing a presentation to the top executive team of a very large organization on the next 20 years. Most of what I will cover will be general societal, business and technological drivers as well as specific strategic issues driving their business. MORE
At this time of year it's good to look back at the blog posts I've written and see what is most interesting. Some have got quite a lot of attention, other posts I liked got passed over. Having looked through my blog posts, the most useful approach seems to be by topics. MORE
This is the year influence shifts to center stage. Wherever I go people are talking about influence. Meanwhile companies are rapidly shifting their marketing resources to tap the power of influence. There are several primary drivers for the rise of influence: * The democratization of media , which gives everyone a channel to propagate theirs or others’ opinions. Peer trust , which places far greater faith in individuals than corporate advertising and marketing. * MORE
Continuing my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest in 2009, here is my selection of 10 posts on Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness. Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption. What the diffusion curve means for Enterprise 2.0 MORE
A centrepiece of our recently launched Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report is an Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework. Click on the image below to download the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework pdf , which includes references to the relevant chapters for each of the action steps. MORE
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. MORE
A syndrome to help understand society in 2009. Third in my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest this year, on the general topic of the future. (I I haven't included any of my presentations - I'll select some of these to put in another post.). Wealth Adaptation Syndrome (WAS): a defining malaise of our times and the opportunities that stem from it. Why traditional conferences are dying and how unconferences and audience participation are the future of events. MORE
ComScore has just announced that the number of Twitter users in the US went up by 131% in March. At this rate, everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 of this year. MORE
This morning I did the opening keynote to the top executive team of a major organization.at their strategy offsite. It's not appropriate to share the full presentation, however I can share the rough scenarios I presented for the world to 2030. MORE
One of the most interesting issues regarding Twitter is its impact on the media and journalism. MORE
Thursday, March 12, 2009. is very happy to announce the creation of MuniGovCon09 - a virtual conference to be held April 10, 2009 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST. April 5, 2009 at 11:03 PM. April 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. MORE
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. MORE
Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework , today is German. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf. Please share this with any German speakers. MORE
Thursday, September 10, 2009. September 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM. September 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box. MORE
Sysomos has just released extensive research on Twitter use , filled with all sorts of fascinating information, such as 72% of Twitter users have joined since the beginning of this year, 53% of Twitterers are women, and marketers are 50 times more likely than normal people to follow over 2000 people. MORE
Monday, August 24, 2009. When I read Gartners Hype Cycle for IT Operations Manag ement 2009, I was struck by how many technology categories may really need to change (or may simply become unnecessary) in a cloud model. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. MORE
In addition to the data stream of 140-character bons mots, I feel inspired to write in more depth on some of the themes we explored at yesterday's MIT CIO Symposium , perhaps due to a great article by Adam Singer entitled "19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet.". MORE
Mon Dec 21, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. MORE
Today we launch our Social Media Strategy Framework. This provides guidance and a frame on how organizations can approach engaging with social media, following in the tradition of our highly popular frameworks such as Web 2.0 Framework , Future of the Media Lifecycle , and Influence Landscape. MORE
While online technologies have transformed the media along many dimensions, one of the most important ways of understanding this is in how the news cycle has changed. MORE
Monday, June 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments. MORE
A couple of years ago Deloitte tempted John Hagel away from independent consulting to co-chair a new think-tank, now called the Deloitte Center for the Edge. I have been a long-time fan of John’s work, and find many parallels with my own path and research. MORE
Fri Dec 11, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If youâ??re MORE
For many years I have believed that our everyday interfaces with computers are deeply limited, and that creating more effective interfaces is central to our future. In my 2002 book Living Networks I selected Interfaces as one of the three key enablers that would bring the networks to life. MORE
Our Social Media Strategy Framework released a few months ago has been getting a lot of attention and downloads. MORE
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Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Profiting from Technology Trends: Growth Summit 2009 View more presentations from rossdawson.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Continuing my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest in 2009, here is my selection of 10 posts on Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness. Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption. What the diffusion curve means for Enterprise 2.0
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Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 30, 2009
Other 2009 summary posts. Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media. Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 Top blog posts of 2009: The future. Top keynote speech presentations/ videos of 2009. and organizational effectiveness.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 28, 2009
A syndrome to help understand society in 2009. Third in my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest this year, on the general topic of the future. (I I haven't included any of my presentations - I'll select some of these to put in another post.). Wealth Adaptation Syndrome (WAS): a defining malaise of our times and the opportunities that stem from it. Why traditional conferences are dying and how unconferences and audience participation are the future of events.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
At this time of year it's good to look back at the blog posts I've written and see what is most interesting. Some have got quite a lot of attention, other posts I liked got passed over. Having looked through my blog posts, the most useful approach seems to be by topics.
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MAY 22, 2009
In addition to the data stream of 140-character bons mots, I feel inspired to write in more depth on some of the themes we explored at yesterday's MIT CIO Symposium , perhaps due to a great article by Adam Singer entitled "19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet.".
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 24, 2009
Using the same methodology as my At current growth rates everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 2009! Everyone in the world will have a Twitter account by December 21 2009!
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Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 15, 2009
ComScore has just announced that the number of Twitter users in the US went up by 131% in March. At this rate, everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 of this year.
SPF13
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Mon Dec 21, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution.
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
SPF13
MARCH 27, 2009
Fri Mar 27, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 15, 2009
For many years I have believed that our everyday interfaces with computers are deeply limited, and that creating more effective interfaces is central to our future. In my 2002 book Living Networks I selected Interfaces as one of the three key enablers that would bring the networks to life.
CIO Musings
MARCH 12, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009. is very happy to announce the creation of MuniGovCon09 - a virtual conference to be held April 10, 2009 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PST. April 5, 2009 at 11:03 PM. April 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits.
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Trends in the Living Networks
MAY 10, 2009
This is the year influence shifts to center stage. Wherever I go people are talking about influence. Meanwhile companies are rapidly shifting their marketing resources to tap the power of influence. There are several primary drivers for the rise of influence: * The democratization of media , which gives everyone a channel to propagate theirs or others’ opinions. Peer trust , which places far greater faith in individuals than corporate advertising and marketing. *
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 2, 2009
Tomorrow morning I'm doing a presentation to the top executive team of a very large organization on the next 20 years. Most of what I will cover will be general societal, business and technological drivers as well as specific strategic issues driving their business.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Thu Nov 12, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations.
Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 20, 2009
Today we launch our Social Media Strategy Framework. This provides guidance and a frame on how organizations can approach engaging with social media, following in the tradition of our highly popular frameworks such as Web 2.0 Framework , Future of the Media Lifecycle , and Influence Landscape.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 3, 2009
This morning I did the opening keynote to the top executive team of a major organization.at their strategy offsite. It's not appropriate to share the full presentation, however I can share the rough scenarios I presented for the world to 2030.
SPF13
OCTOBER 2, 2009
Fri Oct 2, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Analyzing and Improving Conversion.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 17, 2009
I very rarely find the time to write magazine articles, but I was delighted to write the opening feature article for MediaTitles 2010, an annual publication which covers the media and magazine industry.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 12, 2009
Given the extreme popularity of our Social Media Strategy Framework , we decided to translate it into other languages. The translations have been serialized on my blog over the last couple of weeks, and here they are compiled into a single post. Social Media Strategy Framework in 11 languages.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 16, 2009
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney.
SPF13
DECEMBER 11, 2009
Fri Dec 11, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If youâ??re
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 14, 2009
While online technologies have transformed the media along many dimensions, one of the most important ways of understanding this is in how the news cycle has changed.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Our Social Media Strategy Framework released a few months ago has been getting a lot of attention and downloads.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework , today is German. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf. Please share this with any German speakers.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 15, 2009
One of the most interesting issues regarding Twitter is its impact on the media and journalism.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009. September 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM. September 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 8, 2009
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a zillion different file types and properly comments each. It can handle single line, multi line, partial line commenting as well as nesting. If you’re programming in VIM you really should be using it. It is simple enough to use. Most commands are mapped to ,c[character]. The command you are probably going to use the most is ,c which intelligently toggles a comment on or off
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Last week I did the keynote presentation in a webinar run by ITNews and Oracle on How to spark sales using social media apps. My presentation was titled The Future of Sales is Social. The slides are below, and you can listen to the on demand webinar here (registration required).
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 11, 2009
Sysomos has just released extensive research on Twitter use , filled with all sorts of fascinating information, such as 72% of Twitter users have joined since the beginning of this year, 53% of Twitterers are women, and marketers are 50 times more likely than normal people to follow over 2000 people.
Fountainhead
JUNE 29, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Many companies and workers are now daring to be optimistic as they put 2009 behind them, look forward to opportunities, and worry about getting left behind if things improve rapidly. While many lost their jobs in 2009, sparking a rise in home-based work such as direct selling, many others gave up self-employment to return to the workforce. Literally hundreds of newspapers around the world have shut their doors in 2009.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Dion Hinchcliffe has written a useful post titled Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices , reviewing some of the work in the space, and with the intent of building a broader catalog of best practices.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 5, 2009
A couple of years ago Deloitte tempted John Hagel away from independent consulting to co-chair a new think-tank, now called the Deloitte Center for the Edge. I have been a long-time fan of John’s work, and find many parallels with my own path and research.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 12, 2009
A centrepiece of our recently launched Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report is an Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework. Click on the image below to download the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework pdf , which includes references to the relevant chapters for each of the action steps.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 30, 2009
The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing to bid farewell to helped to tear up the fairly linear progress of the first decade of the century. In his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century , James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive. For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 25, 2009
I have been interested in the field of expertise location for over a decade, from back when knowledge managers were building 'corporate yellow pages' and other tools to find the best expertise in the organization.
Fountainhead
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009. Yours-truly will be one of the speakers at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in NY March 30-April 1, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Join me at NYCs cloud computing expo. They have a very awesome agenda , including a keynote from Werner Vogels, Amazons CTO.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 24, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009. When I read Gartners Hype Cycle for IT Operations Manag ement 2009, I was struck by how many technology categories may really need to change (or may simply become unnecessary) in a cloud model. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar.
SPF13
DECEMBER 20, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal. If you know other top sites also powered by drupal, please list them in the comments below
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.
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