Enterprise 2.0 Conf: FedEx makes its services accessible outside of FedEx.com

June 10, 2008

Rob Carter, CIO of FedEx led the conference on Tuesday with his presentation, “Connectedness: Changing what’s possible.” He began his talk discussing what he admittedly said we already know, a history of networks: distribution, electrical, telecommunications, and then offered a little of what we didn’t know, a history of FedEx. All that history proves that […]

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Enterprise 2.0 conf: From the bottom up: Building the 21st Century Intelligence Community

June 10, 2008

Sean Dennehy and Don Burke of the CIA showed off the structure of Intellipedia which is foremost a wiki for the Director of National Intelligence. The CIA was the pilot customer for Intellipedia and Burke and Dennehy are two of its leading advocates. Intellipedia is a closed knowledge management system with three levels of access […]

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VIDEO: Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Enterprise 2.0 inspired CoreMedia to reignite communications and write a book

June 10, 2008

The first people I ran into at the Enterprise 2.0 conference were Tina Kulow and Dr. Willms Buhse of CoreMedia. I knew Tina when she used to do PR for Smaato, a mobile application development company for smartphones. CoreMedia develops content management systems for enterprise clients. The two of them were making a return engagement […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: VIDEO: Selipsky on the flexibility of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

June 10, 2008

Right after Adam Selipsky, VP Product Development and Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services (AWS) presented his “move all your IT services to the cloud” argument during the “Evening in the Cloud” round table last night, I asked him if there were any major issues that the panel DIDN’T cover in the nearly two hour […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: VIDEO: Richard Soley of OMG is waiting for more cloud computing standards

June 10, 2008

Richard Mark Soley of OMG, Object Management Group was one of the CXOs who grilling the cloud computing team of Google, Amazon, and Salesforce.com during last night’s session, “Evening in the Cloud.” The big question on his mind was “Can I leave one of you and move to the other?” And the simple answer is […]

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VIDEO: Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Schmoozing on the eve of Enterprise 2.0

June 9, 2008

After the “Evening in the cloud” session I pulled out my Nokia N82, loaded up the Qik streaming video service, and roamed the crowd asking what they thought of the session and the Enterprise 2.0 conference which will officially launch full sessions tomorrow. Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from the […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conf: Move all your IT to the cloud: Cloud computing providers try to convince CXOs to take the plunge

June 9, 2008

CXOs on one side of the podium and cloud computing providers on the other side. Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.com each got up and tried to convince the CXOs to move all of their IT operations to the cloud. Here’s a summary of the initial arguments. Amazon’s argument: Your company doesn’t run better if you create […]

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BNET Webcast: Optimizing Online Customer Interactions

June 4, 2008

Last week I appeared on a BNET webcast with John Gilles and Patrick Newbery of Method. The topic was “Optimizing Online Customer Interactions.” Really good conversation where we discussed best types of engagement and how to measure success. Give it a listen. It’s 54 minutes.

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Are you "Tuned In" a.k.a. listening to your market?

June 1, 2008

David Meerman Scott, author of the extremely popular book The New Rules of Marketing and PR, has just released yet another book Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities That Lead to Business Breakthroughs which describes how business opportunities come about by listening to the spoken/unspoken audience and market needs. This book was written with two […]

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ZDTV/TechTV 10th Anniversary Reunion

May 24, 2008

More than ten years ago, ZDTV launched a 24-hour cable television network in San Francisco about technology and the Internet. Paul Allen of Microsoft and Vulcan Ventures, bought the network and renamed it TechTV. After six years (I was there the first three), the network was sold for its subscribers and some programming to G4 […]

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