I’ll keep this short, I’m neck deep in analysis for the upcoming Wave report –while trying to balance client needs and projects, I’m busy. When I worked at web startup in the first web boom, all kinds of people came to power that didn’t have … Continue readingThe Power Trip
LiveWorld now introduces “LiveBar” and Mark Hendrickson from Techcrunch has a review showing now any static website that embeds this lightweight social script. I first saw mockups of this product a few months ago from LiveWorld, and it seemed impressive, but unlike embedding chat, comments, … Continue readingNow nearly any website can now be “Social” with LiveBar
I use to work at Exodus (my story here), which became Cable and Wireless, which is now Savvis. Back in the first web boom Exodus was a high flying web host, for premiere brands. We had the top web brands, ya know: Yahoo, Weather Channel, … Continue readingPhysical and Digital Security for our Online Lives and Businesses
With nearly every tech blogger pontificating on the cartoon, firefox vs IE vs chrome, or expressing love for the ‘cloud’, only a few folks are thinking about the long term implications to Google’s new browser called ‘Chrome’. Harry McCracken does some forward thinking and raises … Continue readingThinking Long Term: Google’s New Browser ‘Chrome’
Well not really. My new friend Avi Bhatnagar showed me this clever viral video that combines personalization, as well as a social marketing impact. You can add your friends in the ‘spread this’ page to spread it among your friends and family, you can create … Continue readingVideo: I’m Running For President of the United States
In the late 1990s the CMS invaders deployed their systems at large corporations, as managing web pages using HTML editors wasn’t scalable and non-technical folks needed to publish. In many cases after the invader left, the company’s business teams and technical web teams were stuck … Continue readingCMS Horror Stories, and Your Soon-To-Be “Legacy” Community Platform?
Embrace your Customers At Forrester, we use the term Embracing as a social strategy where customers and employees work together using social tools to build next-generation products. Quite a change for the strong headed product manager, who now has to set the roadmap, while in … Continue readingBuild your own “IdeaStorm” with UserVoice
We live in a hyper-connected world, yet part of the blowback is the excessive communication that occurs –I fear it will only get worse over time. Today, I spoke to an Executive at medium sized corporation who confessed that she cannot keep up with her … Continue readingEmail Consumes Us
For 2 minutes, forget about these tools: Seesmic, Facebook, Ustream, Justin TV, Blogs, Forums, RSS, Utterz, and all the rest of the tools I listed out. I’m seeing a lot of web strategists over focused on the tools. Secondly, I’ve even seen a few social … Continue readingStop Fondling the Hammer, and Focus on the House
