February, 2008

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Will libraries disappear in 2019? - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Lloyds TSB pilots social media | Main | BRW Digital Edition: new-style journalism and some insights into Web 2.0 » Will libraries disappear in 2019? Ross Dawson, February 27, 2008 1:21 PM US PT Slate magazine has published a very nice slideshow titled " Borrowed Time " about the past and future of libraries.

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Emerging Markets Boosted by Facebook + Joyent + Mentez

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You’re a developer in Columbia, Brazil, South Africa or Turkey. You know a little PHP. How do you quickly become a world class entrepreneur? How do you reach audiences of millions? You have access to a computer, but you have you have no capital. What would you do? At Joyent, we have partnered with Mentez to help app developers in emerging markets.

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The importance of culture when implementing new technology

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Thanks to Bertrand Duperrin , I found out that only 6 days ago, Peter Evans-Greenwood (Cap Gemini CTO in Australia) posted on his company's very good "CTO blog" his thinking on the importance of organizational culture when implementing new technology and in particular Enterprise 2.0. Do read it. It is totally in line with my last post.

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An Enterprise 2.0 Governance Framework – looking for input! - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Enterprise 2.0 is more about culture and people than technology | Main | Interview on the state of applying Web 2.0 to organizations » An Enterprise 2.0 Governance Framework – looking for input! Ross Dawson, February 25, 2008 3:39 PM US PT From a couple of months before the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum held last week, I had been hoping to create s

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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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BRW Digital Edition: new-style journalism and some insights into Web 2.0 - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Will libraries disappear in 2019? | Main | Great review of Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney Morning Herald » BRW Digital Edition: new-style journalism and some insights into Web 2.0 Ross Dawson, February 27, 2008 9:41 PM US PT BRW magazine’s annual Digital Generation Flagship Edition came out today.

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How to dodge tax sensibly - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Great review of Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney Morning Herald | Main | Startups carnival 2008 – judging the next generation of startups » How to dodge tax sensibly Ross Dawson, February 28, 2008 3:13 PM US PT We are currently hiring a new finance/ admin person.

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Logo competition for DataPortability.org: how to get the best - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « New Australian broadband chip could change media distribution and home entertainment | Main | Enterprise 2.0 is more about culture and people than technology » Logo competition for DataPortability.org: how to get the best Ross Dawson, February 23, 2008 1:39 AM US PT I love this kind of thinking.

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Enterprise 2.0 will bring radical change in organisations - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « David Holloway on Des Walsh’s new Social Media Show: Virtual worlds and Enterprise 2.0 | Main | Do social network technologies make us better or worse off as a society? » Enterprise 2.0 will bring radical change in organisations Ross Dawson, February 16, 2008 2:53 AM US PT A very good article in Voice and Data magazine titled Enterprise 2.0 will bri

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What is Enterprise 2.0? – a primer - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The power of Enterprise Mashups | Main | Interview on SkyBusiness TV: the state of the Yahoo! - Microsoft battle » What is Enterprise 2.0? – a primer Ross Dawson, February 10, 2008 10:01 PM US PT On the newly relaunched Future Exploration Network website, we have added a ‘What is Enterprise 2.0’ page to provide a succinct overview of the space for a

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Société Générale had pathetic risk controls

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I used to be a fixed income derivatives trader. I have a Masters in Economics, with a specialization in Econometrics and Financial Derivatives Pricing. I work in technology now because, while in grad-school, I learnt how to code FORTRAN-77. If you wanted to be a quant, and you wanted to price exotic financial derivatives, you had to solve partial differential equations.

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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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I want to donate my excess WiFi

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Here’s a simple question. I have a Apple Airport Extreme. It generally works brilliantly. I love it. I want to open up my WiFi. Donate it to my neighbours. To anyone parked in front of my house. Anyone with an iPhone. Apple says that it can support up to 50 users. I am guessing few people would actually use it very much. And I am hoping everyone else gets the same idea.

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Finding the right person to help with a problem

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Here is a basic but hugely rewarding problem to resolve: "Finding and contacting the right person (or group) within an organization to help with a problem”. The problem can be anything that can benefit from the input of someone with a relevant expertise. How do you do this in an Enterprise 1.0 environment (in other words, in most organizations today)?

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Director of Knowledge Management opportunity

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For those interested, I am looking to bring in a right hand person to do "km stuff" :) Major initiatives this year include a MOSS rollout , Recommind installation, Interwoven/ MCC deployment and a few other things I could tell you, but then I'd have to. well you know how that goes. [UPDATE] A couple of points to address now, based on some of the questions I've gotten: Although I'm based in LA, the preference is to have someone based in either Chicago, NY, DC, PHL, or PIT.

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“Three dozen knowledge sharing barriers� compared with my “cultures not conducive to knowledge sharing�

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I have recently been made aware (on ActKm listserve) by Shawn Callahan of one of his blog post dated 03/09/06 and titled " Tree dozen knowledge sharing barriers ”. Shawn was commenting on an article written by Andreas Riege (with the same name as the post). I thought that it could be interesting to compare Andreas' list of barriers with my list of 16 "not conducive to K sharing” cultural traits.

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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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Anyone know people that would be interested in our new Firmwide Director of Records position?

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While this is in poor form, it's my blog and I can do what I please. I guess :) In any event, this is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor and be able to implement a new records system (Interwoven) along with new policies and procedures. We're also looking to go paperless, it's a very exciting opportunity for the right person. The person can be based in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh or DC.

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The Generational Divide.

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

An interesting string started today on the ILTA listserves regarding the generational rift within IT Departments as reported in a recent CIO.com article. This falls in line with what we're seeing in all corporations, especially in law firms. This also has an important impact on how technology is designed and how we go about training lawyers on technology.

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Cloud Computing Enables Enterprise 2.0

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You have read the white papers, seen the blogs, attended the conferences. And you have bought into the hype. Enterprise 2.0 tools are going to make your organization an innovation machine! I actually believe that’s true. Or, at least, I think they can go a long way to getting you there. So, now what do you do? How do you get there from here. You can fight with your IT department.

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The future of adult entertainment - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Why online reputation systems have a long way to go | Main | Keynote at Managing Partners Forum: Creating the Future of Professional Services » The future of adult entertainment Ross Dawson, February 6, 2008 3:43 PM US PT Richard Watson, Chief Futurist at Future Exploration Network , has found that his newly launched bestseller Future Files: A Histo

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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.