Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 9, 2012

Another quick selection of my most popular posts from 2011, this time on the topic of the future of media: 1. Predictions for media industry in 2011. Social news curation, crowd sourced journalism, multi-platform distribution, personalized advertising and tablet media will be just some of the key trends shaping the year ahead. 2. Narrative Science raises $6m to replace web copywriters with computers.

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Media Journal Social Advertising 133

The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 11, 2012

'They start out fine, but the ending is never pretty…. It seems as though at least once a year CIOs get a bee in their bonnet and decide that the company’s IT department needs to knuckle down and improve its processes. This means that it’s time to implement one of those far-reaching process improvement programs. Oh, oh. No matter if it’s Six Sigma or some other flavor-of-the-week program, they all seem to end up the same way – having no lasting impact.

Programming 100

Programming Strategy Cloud Report 100

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 13, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. By Werner Vogels on 13 January 2012 08:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Join me at 9AM PST on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to find out what is next in the AWS Cloud. Registration required. Comments. blog comments powered by Disqus. â??.

CTO 113

CTO Cloud System 113

SPF13

JANUARY 11, 2012

'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. Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery. One of the most common concerns people have is how to ensure that their application is safe, secure and available in the event of an emergency.

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Disaster Recovery Backup Data Center Windows 178

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 12, 2012

[This post first appeared on the Getting Results From Crowds book website]. Research firm IDC has forecast that there will be 1.3 billion ‘mobile workers’ in the world by 2015, representing 37.2% of the global workforce. This points to the massive explosion of what I call the ‘global talent economy’, in which talent can be and will be anywhere.

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Mobile Internet Travel Development 125

Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 10, 2012

[This article first appeared on the Getting Results From Crowds book website ]. Harley-Davidson has been in the vanguard of using crowdsourcing to fuel its creative marketing initiatives. That initial success has fueled its appetite, with its latest initiative a Facebook app that takes idea generation to a far broader crowd. Last year I wrote about how Harley-Davidson had launched a major advertising campaign using Victors & Spoils , an agency built on crowdsourcing principles.

Case Study 121

Case Study Advertising Journal Study 121