Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
'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, September 23, 2008. Platform Wars III: Android vs IPhone vs Blackberry.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Permit me to shamelesly announce my promotion to Chief Information Officer at Portero Inc. Here is the Press Release on the wire this week. Portero, Inc., is pleased to announce the promotion of Steve P. Francia to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO), effective immediately. He will continue to report to Michael Sheldon, the company’s chairman and CEO, and will be responsible for operations and technology for the company.
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Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
At the 2020 Vision Financial Services conference yesterday I promised I'd have the full content of my presentation here up within days. But my schedule means I probably won't be able to get it up for a week or so, so for now I'll just put up the slides. The usual warnings apply - my presentation slides are not meant to be meaningful by themselves, but to accompany my speech, so unless you were there, I suggest you wait until I do the full write up of the presentation.
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
The last week for submitting the applications for the AWS Startup Challenge has started. Looking at the proposals that are being submitted it looks like this will be another very inspiring challenge. These proposals are reviewed by a panel and five finalists will be selected. The finalists will come to Seattle to compete for $50K in cash, $50K in AWS credits, 2 years of Premium Support and more.
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.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Blogs and educating the eflective practitioner. Interesting Slideshare presentation on the importance of blogging as part of reflective practice. I really like the Harry Potter quote near the end. tags: reflective_practice , blogging.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
A blog post by my boss , about his thinking on social media, triggered some thinking from me about the same recent New York Times article by Clive Thompson that he references. When I tell people that I spend time on Twitter ( @mikegil ), their first response is typically, "Why would you constantly want to tell the whole Internet/world what you're doing?
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SPF13
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
'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. Why are you still shopping offline? Today I visited one of the largest national office supply outlets. I had a specific purpose in mind.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
I have long believed that location-based mobile social networking is central to how technology will connect us. The advent of next generation phones including the iPhone combined with people’s familiarity and engagement with social networks means that the space is – finally – ready to take off. Here is a very quick review of the past, present, and future of the space.
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
The backend servers that power the world of Internet Services have become increasingly diverse. With today's announcement that Microsoft Windows Server is available on Amazon EC2 we can now run the majority of popular software systems in the cloud. Windows Server ranked very high on the list of requests by customers so we are happy that we will be able to provide this.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
100+ learning professsionals to follow on Twitter. I made Jane Hart’s list of “100+ (E-)Learning Professionals to follow on Twitter&# and I’ve had a sudden increase in Followers. Itereting how the web works. tags: JaneHart , twitter , elearning.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Today, I attended a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MTLC), and facilitated by Paul Gillin , a luminary and authority on the topic of social networking. The event was titled: "Using Social Media to Catapult Your Company to Thought Leadership" and the presenters included: John McArthur of Walden Tech Partners, whose extensive work in IT operations, management, and finance gave him great perspective.
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
'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. Sunday, September 07, 2008. Top 7 Ingredients to Establishing an Agile Development Practice.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
Today I visited one of the largest national office supply outlets. I had a specific purpose in mind. I needed to pickup 2 wireless routers and 1 audio cable. What transpired caused me to wonder why anyone does any offline shopping anymore. My experience at the store caused me to reflect on the many things we simply put up with at the store which we would never permit online.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
I have written and been quoted many times before on the rise of a new layer of capital markets and the segmentation of venture capital. Venture capital certainly will continue to play an important role in years to come, but many major variations on the current model will emerge. One of the most important drivers of change is the far lower capital-intensity of web and technology businesses.
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All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
For many the "Cloud" in Cloud Computing signifies the notion of location independence; that somewhere in the internet services are provided and that to access them you do not need any specific knowledge of where they are located. Many applications have already been built using cloud services and they indeed achieve this location transparency; their customers do not have to worry about where and how the application is being served.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
12 Step Plan to getting engaged with social learning. Want to know more about social learning, or set up a course in it? Jane Hart has a plan. via Tony Karrer on Twitter. tags: Social_learning , web2.0 , web-literacy , webapps.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
I had a lively dialogue with a customer this week, joking that I had been relegated to "3rd or 4th favorite person at KMA" status. She responded with a screenshot of her Xobni analytics, a little dashboard showing e-mail history, and that I was indeed the third most responsive person on our team to her e-mails (I hate it when my own geek-boy tools are being used against me.
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 1, 2008
'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, September 01, 2008. Larger Scale Agile Development.
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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
It's a good thing I don't try and make a living as a blogger, my time between posts has been quite long - which is a good indicator of how busy we've been here. While every firm is grappling with the change in the economy, that certainly hasn't slowed us down with the projects we're undertaking at the firm. The two biggies this year for us are our rollout of FileSite and our intranet project.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Download Chapter 8 of Living Networks on Next Generation Content Distribution. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
'The City and WAMU. A few hours ago WAMU (Washington Mutual Savings Bank) ceased to exist , seized by Federal regulators, and partially sold to J. P. Morgan. WAMU was a modern day success story, going from a small Seattle savings and loan to a national banking powerhouse headquartered in two gleaming new skyscrapers in downtown Seattle. Seattle is a center of 20th and 21st Century innovation, but, like the national economy, is stumbling just a bit.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals : eLearning Technology. Want to learn more about web 2.0 applications? I highly recommend this multi-level course - I’ve followed the leaders’s blogs for years. High value. tags: elearning , web2.0 , web-literacy.
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.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
At this time of year in this part of the world, the Major League Baseball season is drawing to a close. As in many major sports leagues, a few wealthy teams with long histories and passionate fans (as in Boston and New York) frequently dominate the standings and headlines, but the margin between the very best and the merely mediocre is not at all large.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Hitwise has just released statistics on Twitter usage in Australia , showing that Twitter usage is up over 500% over the last year. More interestingly, Australia’s share of Twittering globally has more than tripled in that time. It should also be noted that people increasingly use mobiles and Twitter clients such as Twhirl, so Hitwise would not be seeing this traffic, suggesting that the increase in usage is probably significantly greater than the figures they’re reporting.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Dawn Foster of Fast Wonder Consulting recently posted a really useful, practical discussion of different types of structures for corporate communities. She puts corporate communities into three categories: emergent, highly structured, and adaptive. Emergent Approach: Community has little or no structure at launch, and a structure emerges over time. Highly Structured Approach: Communities have a detailed, thought-through taxonomy at time of launch.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
I blog a lot about the importance of in-the-flow collaboration: the idea that organizations adopt collaborative tools only when those tools are integrated into the flow of daily work. That idea resonates with a lot of readers, but so far I haven't said very much about how to do it. The other day, I saw a really great example of an in-the-flow collaborative tool at Acumen Fund.
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Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
SkillsOne is the TV channel of the Institute for Trade Skills Excellence, providing video programming both on cable TV and online to promote the development of trade skills. Last May it. won the Webby award for the best association website. Shortly after SkillsOne was founded last year I was interviewed by the channel on the future of work. The full interview was run on the cable programming, while two 3 minute excerpts from the interview are provided online.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Download Chapter 7 of Living Networks on the Flow Economy. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
I caught up with Napier Collyns in Sydney the other week, after having seen him in both New York and London earlier this year. His highly peripatetic lifestyle means that we’re often not in the same place at the same time, but we’ve managed to cross paths more regularly recently. Napier had just spoken at the Australian Leadership Retreat organized by the Australian Davos Connection on a number of topics including peak oil.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
I'm writing at the Vision 2020 Financial Services Sector conference in Mumbai where I'm giving the keynote speech. I'll post a review of my presentation later, and here will post notes from the interesting speakers and my conversations on the day, combined with my own reflections. The conference is organized by NDTV Convergence and Wipro. NDTV runs all of the online operations of NDTV, a diversified media company centered on its business TV channel.
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