Social Media
(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 [...]
THE R&D VALUE OF OPEN SOURCE
At the Executive Summit Series meeting in Seattle, Dr. Tom Cellucci, Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, discussed his strategy of getting research and development commitments from commercial industry CEOs for developing national security technologies. In return, the department would provide direction so that industry could best understand what the actual market [...]
FOR THE GREATER (NATIONAL) GOOD
There’s a great sense of altruism in the open source community. Ask any founder or developer of open source projects why they are involved and their primary answer will center on the idea of giving something back to the world and making a difference. With the presidential race upon us both parties are asking the [...]
BUBBLE 2.0
It feels a bit like 1999 all over again. Maybe a few less extravagant parties and mobile email is passe but the web 2.0 frenzy certainly has a familiar sound, ehrrr, noise. Ten years ago, I jumped into the pool of koolaid with both feet and have many fond memories of the eddy. But I [...]
WHO’S BLOG IS IT ANYWAY?
I’ve been following the election with great interest in how the community is being pulled into the fray. It appears the right is using the word ‘bloggers’ in conjunction with liberal media. The left is doing all they can to position bloggers as just people with their own opinions. Yet, both parties are working hard [...]