Archive for September, 2008
Web2.0 NYC – Some Get It
I enjoyed the show. It gave me a chance to kick the offline tires of the online community providers. I went with no expectations but a good idea of what I was looking for. Actually, I knew more what I wasn’t looking for. I wasn’t looking for anything that reminded me of the dotcom days. [...]
Schwag Day 1.0
Today I met with some solid companies at Web 2.0 NY. More on that later. The most pressing news flash is that schwag is back! Call me nostalgic but walking the aisles was reminiscent of Comdex ’99. Evidence attached (sans the hired booth babes or the many booth bars that opened promptly at beer thirty). [...]
The Unique Economy of Washington, DC
The revenue opportunities in the nations capital extend far beyond Uncle Sam. The region offers a wealth of high value customers that orbit the federal sphere. Law firms, policy firms, associations, think tanks, systems integrators, professional service firms and many others. As with any shifting market, staying competitive is paramount, which means these companies must [...]
NYC Web 2.0 Target List
After reviewing many websites here’s the list of stops this week at Web 2.0. There are some well known companies here but it’s the diamonds in the rough I hope to find. BrickfishBriz.com | Local Search – Business Networking – Customer Relationships Citadel Rock Online Communities www.clickability.com Conduit.com – Free community toolbar Builder in a [...]
Biting The Big Apple
This week I’ve been making appointments and filtering through the 500 exhibitors showing at next weeks Web 2.0 conference in NY. In the past I’ve spent about 30 minutes with a company that I think is interesting. If there are six quality hours of show floor time this equates to 12 quality vendor meetings per [...]
(Real) Communities and Social Media
My breakfast meeting this morning included two infrastructure companies and three professional service firms who all live at the intersection of business, government and society. An intersection many choose not to venture into. Our conversation centered on how to leverage existing IT and communications infrastructures to help build safer communities using the latest available social [...]
ORACLE’S COMMUNITY FOCUS – FRONT AND CENTER
http://blogs.oracle.com/otn/2008/09/oracle_listens_1.html Jason Kestelyn’s post is a great marker for how our nations biggest companies will use the web from here forward. In the new world, as opposed to simply providing a robust informational portal with some level of interaction, the community is now the focus. Information is decoupling from the databases (irony) and living through [...]
IMPROVING (READ: BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER) SCIENTIFIC R&D
Last week I was fortunate to have spent time with one of the nations leading federal government scientists. Our conversation was about the potential impact of enabling the scientific community to collaborate via social media. The goal would be to allow them to leverage each others research, avoid duplication, improve experimentation, etc. Of course, the [...]
BIG COMPANIES AND SMALL COMMUNITIES
By any measure, some of the communities sprouting up from within the walls of major corporate America are small. But the importance is life or death and the potential payoffs are big. Check out what’s happening at Oracle: http://oracleappslab.com/ and https://mix.oracle.com/. This isn’t anything Earth shattering, but it marks a permanent change to the way [...]
ASSESSING THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY
There are many evolving business models around community. This is great because revenue will continue to drive investment which will continue to drive innovation and more communities. But I think monetization loses some of the most important value in community building. Better medicine, schools, relationships, debate and public safety are just a few of the [...]