May 2008

Off to Boston: Enterprise 2.0 gig

May 29, 2008 General

I really hate all these XX 2.0 monikers. They’re meaningless but then the software industry has become enamoured of their use. Anyhoo. June 9th-12th I’ll be in Boston for Enterprise 2.0. I’m chairing a panel on ‘micro-blogging in the enterprise’ on June 12th. It’s the graveyard session but we’ll make the most of it and [...]

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Going Solo on the road. Next stop Leeds

May 29, 2008 Asides

I’m delighted to say that the Going Solo team will be re-assembling in Leeds on 12th September to reprise what has turned out to be the wildly successful Going Solo event. I’ll need to adjust my presentation somewhat for a more localized audience but hey ho. It will be the first time in more than [...]

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Are we ready for social computing aka collaboration?

May 29, 2008 General

Some statistics that emerged from Jive Software’s Business Social Software Jeopardy show which I have lifted from a piece I wrote for IT Counts (closed community so no link): 10% of marketing budgets should be allocated to ‘social’ projects. Marketing budgets usually run at 6.5% of total revenue so for a small business turning over [...]

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Nobody cares

May 29, 2008 General

While preparing for an upcoming presentation, I stumbled across this post on Gapingvoid. I’m not sure much has changed in the intervening period except that a few, by which I mean a handful of passionate professionals, have started to engage with this stuff. Since I wrote the original words back in December 2006, I don’t [...]

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Caught on the hop

May 27, 2008 General

I was completely caught on the hop with this video which was shot at Going Solo but it all kinda makes sense. (Note – incredibly good quality from a handheld HD camera.) I had some idea that SMT was going to put out this piece (I didn’t see it beforehand, I simply gave Jerry a [...]

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Sage under siege?

May 27, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The Daily Telegraph has an intriguing story about how Michael Jackson, former director of Sage Group may be looking to invest in the saas market. Entitled, Sage faces challenge from its ex-boss, the author says: Mr Jackson, 58, told The Daily Telegraph that he is preparing to take a 25pc-30pc stake in a £10m Aim-listed [...]

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Crowds are dopes. So are individuals. At times.

May 27, 2008 General

Sometimes I read something that’s so wide of the mark it requires a robust response. This post entitled Sometimes Crowds Aren’t That Wise is one such. Written as an apologia for the popularity system masquerading as a Wisdom of Crowds rating system aka Digg, the author seeks to define the way ‘crowds’ should behave in [...]

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 26th

May 26, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for May 26th: Does Robert Scoble “own” his comments? » mathewingram.com/work | – More ego-preening in the blogosphere over who owns what. What else can one expect on a slow (ie holiday) 'news' day? Biggest drawing in the world created with GPS – Hack a Day – Some artists are [...]

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Holy schmoly: Xero on iPhone!

May 26, 2008 General

It’s not often I’m gobsmacked but Xero adding an iPhone client is goodness. If you use an iPhone then you’ll know it is the gold standard in PDA interfaces and while I’ve been sceptical about putting financial clients onto this device I can see the utility. As the company says in its blog post: Xero [...]

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