July, 2009

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Launch of Social Media Strategy Framework

Trends in the Living Networks

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. Click on the image to download pdf. This is a Beta version, pulled together to release before The Insight Exchange’s Social Media Strategy event today.

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Fountainhead: Why (and How) Low-Cost Servers Will Dominate

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Why (and How) Low-Cost Servers Will Dominate. Or, why high-end servers will be obviated by software. I begin this blog with a true story. 2 weeks ago I was training a new Account Executive about the virtues of server automation, I/O virtualization, converged networking, etc.

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Social Media Recognition

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Recently I’ve been fortunate to be recognized in a few publications. I extend a warm welcome to all my new friends and followers. I look forward to engaging with you. 12 CIOs Who Love Social Media Luxury 50 Top Twitter Users CIO Twitter Dashboard 12 CIOs Who Love Social Media-2 by steve.francia, on Flickr Related Articles The New CIO: Social Media and the Enterprise(ericbrown.

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The Next Tech Battle: Chrome OS vs. Office Web Apps - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

'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, July 14, 2009. The Next Tech Battle: Chrome OS vs.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Amazon is in-world and hiring!

All Things Distributed

Join recruiters and hiring managers from several of Amazon's global offices on July 14, 2009. We'll be in-world from 6am through midnight (Pacific/Seattle time) for the first ever Amazon Second Life Job Fair. This free event is a unique opportunity for candidates to have direct access to hiring managers and recruiters from around the world!

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Knowledge in translation

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

I revisited the following, originally posted in July ‘07 , after putting Douglas Hofstadter ’s Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language back onto my currently-reading list. It is still relevant, so thought it worth sharing again. With any luck, I’ll have some new insights to share after I’ve read the book again. = = == ==.

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Metrics That TRULY Matter: Combat Analytics

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

The recent passing of the iconic Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara brought to mind an article I read by Tom Davenport in a Harvard Business Publishing blog about analytics in the combat theater in Afghanistan. Mr. Davenport summarizes an approach called " Combat Analytics " that is being used to assess progress toward the American military's objectives in Afghanistan, and how difficult it is to identify metrics about counterinsurgency activities that are directly reflective of the

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New Facebook in Depth Review

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Image via CrunchBase Facebook just unveiled their biggest change yet. The [link] website is a preview of the next design of Facebook. The new design places more emphasis on friends and actions and downplays the applications. There is a lot more than just design going on. They also reveal some new functionality. I will present an in-depth review of what to expect from Facebook complete with screenshots.

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- Gray, not Green, Technology

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'No, this is not "Gray" Tech. No, “Gray” technology doesn’t refer to the color of my hair (what little remains of it) nor does it refer to the aging of the workforce. “Gray” technology refers to the decidedly mixed blessings of technology, and specifically the impacts of the ubiquitous and ever-expanding use of technology on the environment.

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Are you 'Chrome'd-out? - CIORant

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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What is your language?

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Another of my posts from the past, on a similar theme as my re-post last night of Knowledge in translation. This time, the translation in question is that between the language of autism and the language of the non-autistic. = = == ==. WHAT IS YOUR LANGUAGE. Everyone has their own path to follow through life. Easy to say, somewhat harder to believe because most of our daily experiences involve others who live incredibly similar lives to ours.

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Going on holidays! Conclusion: we need multi-factor travel search…

Trends in the Living Networks

Just one month after the birth of our beautiful daughter Phoebe , we are going on a week’s holiday in Fiji. Both Victoria and I have busy schedules coming up, so it’s a good time to get away, rest, and enjoy being a family together. Victoria did the bulk of the holiday searching, probably spending a few days in all, given we were comparing different destinations, pulling together resort and airline schedules, and finding many places booked in what is now peak season (particularly now most people

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Metrics That TRULY Matter: Combat Analytics

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

The recent passing of the iconic Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara brought to mind an article I read by Tom Davenport in a Harvard Business Publishing blog about analytics in the combat theater in Afghanistan. Mr. Davenport summarizes an approach called " Combat Analytics " that is being used to assess progress toward the American military's objectives in Afghanistan, and how difficult it is to identify metrics about counterinsurgency activities that are directly reflective of the

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Fountainhead: Quantifying Data Center Simplification

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, July 14, 2009. Quantifying Data Center Simplification. Ever read that marketing fluff that says "blah blah simplifies your data center"? Ever wonder what that means and whether there is any quantifiable measure? Infrastructure & management simplification is more than simply reducing ports, cable counts, and more than simply virtualizing/consolidating.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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“Influence is the future of media”

Trends in the Living Networks

After three extremely successful years running the Future of Media Summit , held simultaneously in San Francisco Bay Area and Sydney, it is time to move on. This year the event, run by The Insight Exchange , will be titled Future of Influence Summit. This is because: INFLUENCE IS THE FUTURE OF MEDIA. We have already begun to discover this through the now-dominant concept of “ social media ”.

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Online media and independents drive business software buying

Trends in the Living Networks

SAP4SME, a diversified social media initiative from SAP to reach the SME market, is generating a variety of interesting content. At 2pm US Eastern time today SAP is running a webinar: "The Stimulus Package: What Does it Mean for Your Business?" which examines how small to medium enterprise can best tap the US federal stimulus package (see also my earlier note on this ).

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Twitter and the ever-faster moving news landscape

Trends in the Living Networks

Associated Press has just released a story titled Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century? which examines the role of Twitter in the news cycle. It examines the role Twitter played in the news of Michael Jackson's death, in the Iranian election, and in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and goes on to quote tweeters such as Ashton Kutcher and Lance Armstrong, and commentators including TechCrunch and Andrew Keen to explore how Twitter is changing the news landscape.

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Who will provide the credibility ratings for the journalists of the planet?

Trends in the Living Networks

Citizen journalist site Allvoices.com has just moved out of beta. CNet provides a story of the site, its founder Amra Tareen , and Allvoices' features including a map of the world showing where the latest stories are emerging. A Reuters story, Allvoices happy to pay popular posters , focuses on how the site pays contributors and its 'crediibility' algorithm.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Where do you want to play? Where the economy used to be or where the economy is going?

Trends in the Living Networks

Today asset manager James Altucher writes in Wall Street Journal that The Internet is Dead (As An Investment). There has already been a solid response, most notably from venture capital investor Fred Wilson, writing The Internet is Alive and Well (As An Investment) , as well as posts from HipMojo , Stephen Arnold , and Elias Bizannes. The nub of Altucher’s argument?

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Influence in launching start-ups – who do you go to?

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the most important applications of influence is in launching start-ups. This is often a make or break situation – you have a great opportunity to get attention (and on the back of that revenue) when you launch a new company. If it doesn’t work and you don’t get much attention at that point, it doesn’t mean you never get another chance, but it’s going to be a lot harder when you’re yesterday’s news.

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Chris Anderson on the social filtering of news and media

Trends in the Living Networks

Chris Anderson, currently most well-known for his provocative book Free , today put forward his views in yet another interview, this time with a cranky reporter from Spiegel, published under the catchy title of 'Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job'. I'm most interested in what he says about how he gets his news, which is precisely the How Influence Drives Content and Publishing theme of the upcoming Future of Influence Summit.

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Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Free Chapter 11: Social Networks In The Enterprise

Trends in the Living Networks

Continuing our series of free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , here is Chapter 11 on Social Networks in the Enterprise. For full details on the report and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. Section 4 of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 is Creating Business Value From Enterprise 2.0 Tools. It includes chapters on implementing Wikis, Blogs, Social Networks, RSS and syndication, Social Bookmarking , and Microblogging in the enterprise.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Last.FM needs a "serendipity factor" dial

Trends in the Living Networks

I've been listening to Last.FM (and writing about it ) since it was launched in 2002. I love it, to the extent of forking out when they finally asked me to start paying a few months ago. However one of the features I most miss is a "serendipity factor" dial. A basic concept in information filtering is the degree of serendipity of content selection. Do you want a highly predictable stream, or do you want to be very surprised sometimes?

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SAP webinar on the US stimulus package and how to benefit from it

Trends in the Living Networks

On July 29 at 2pm ET SAP is running a webinar on the US economic stimulus package and ways to be able to take advantage of it. Full details here and below. Tap Into a "Hidden" Stimulus for Your Business: Understand Its impact. Discover another "Hidden Stimulus". The current $787 billion Stimulus will surely help a lot of small and midsize businesses.

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Insights from Social Media Strategies event

Trends in the Living Networks

Today The Insight Exchange ran its Social Media Strategies event. It was an excellent session, with some great case studies. Below are the rough notes that I took during the event - hopefully a reasonable representation of what we heard. Aisha Hilary, Communications Specialist, New Media and Brand, SBS. Social media is the use of electronic & internet tools for the purpose of sharing and discussing information and experiences with others.

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A fundamental question: Are we evolving faster?

Trends in the Living Networks

Recent research suggests that ‘microevolution’ – that within species - happens faster in warmer climates – their DNA changes faster. This leads to the extraordinary tropical diversity of our planet. Susan Kraemer asks : what happens if the planet’s climate gets warmer? Will we all evolve faster? Which leads me to the bigger question: are we evolving faster?

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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The border between blogging and Twittering

Trends in the Living Networks

Shall I tweet it? Shall I blog it? If you’re both a blogger and Twitterer, when you get an interesting thought you want to share, you have choices. Do you tweet it? If it’s interesting enough to let people know, then sure – very easily done. Or do you blog it? If it’s compelling enough, competing with lots of other stuff, and it’s time-sensitive, then yes.

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(Some) Rules are meant to be broken

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

On vacation over the last couple of weeks I spent a lot of time with my own kids teenagers, and had the opportunity to watch a lot of other parents’ interactions with their kids. The following thought occurred to me while driving home last week: A big part of a parent’s job is to teach their children the rules of life, to let them know which ones shouldn’t be broken, and to help them understand when and why the rest can and/or should be broken.

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Tools do not a master - or failure - make

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

I’m working on a new post to address the question “ Is modern technology ‘dumbing down’ America’s youth? “, as posed in the most recent edition (22 July 09) of the local news weekly - West News Magazine. (The html version of the article isn’t available as of my writing this, but you can read it here.). This question seems to come around every year about this time as everyone is preparing for the annual back-to-school ritual and teachers, parents, and oth

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Use it or lose it (or, The importance of continuous practice)

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Talking with a friend this morning about the idea of “use it or lose it&# , I told a story about a conversation I had a couple of years ago with my son on the subject of lunar eclipses. I wrote about that conversation not long after it happened, and since it came up I thought I’d share it again. = = == ==. “ You’ve forgotten a lot of things you used to know, haven’t you Dad?

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.