Increasingly, I find myself in conversations about whether, and if so how much, enterprises are adopting social media or user generated content technologies as part of their normal business activity. The question sometimes gets discussed in terms of how much the executives of various firms “get” the technology. Or don’t. Till now, what I’ve read…
On the strength of a report by the company Linkme, which describes itself online as “an online career resource”, it has been claimed that online social networking site Facebook use is costing Australian employers $2,700 (US$2365.41) per employee per year. Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, not to let a few hundred dollars get in the way of…
This may look like an Australian story. It is that, but it’s bigger, because it is significant for citizens of any democratic country and others who cherish democratic principles. The new Australian government has announced stringent new controls over the Internet. According to the report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s site, Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister…
Best-selling author, expert on the future of business and in-demand global speaker, Ross Dawson, Chairman of the Future Exploration Network, is a pusher of boundaries, especially in the social-media-in-the-enterprise space. He is also, it should be said, great company and a marvelous encourager of others. Over the past couple of years I have had the…
When the dotcom bubble burst I did not have any suddenly worthless shares. But I was working on a great consultancy project, to do with using Web technology for music education. Ground-breaking, challenging. It was part of a million dollar sponsorship and while I was not up for the million, I was being paid well…
I was very interested to pick up yesterday (on Twitter, I think) a link to a great resource, Ismael Ghalimi’s extensive list of Office 2.0 tools. On my recent international travels, I had more than one opportunity to reflect on some of the advantages and disadvantages of online office tools versus those on the desktop…