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Twitter Turns Down Half Billion Offer from Facebook 
Bill Ives via The FASTForward Blog on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
Kara Swisher reported today that Facebook offered to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, in her post, When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled. One of the reasons was the perceived ove
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Announcing Appopedia, a Directory of Enterprise 2.0 Application Reviews
Bill Ives via The FASTForward Blog on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
The AppGap bloggers are excited to announce the launch of a new section of reviews - The AppGap: Appopedia. The section brings together the growing number of enter
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Social media lessons from the Obama campaign
Jim McGee via The FASTForward Blog on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
The Obama campaign was innovative on a number of dimensions, particularly with the use of social media and the effective leverage of committed volunteers. There’s been some good reporting that captures the ground truth of what the campaign actually did and some early efforts to make sense out of these facts in a way that offers lessons for those of us interested in their relevance to broader
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A report examining Twitter in the Enterprise
Jevon MacDonald via The FASTForward Blog on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
It will soon be a year since I started talking and thinking about Twitter inside the enterprise. In January I wrote about Twitter in the Enterprise as a trend to watch, and a few months ago I asked “Will
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Was being a fast follower ever a viable strategic option?
Jim McGee via The FASTForward Blog on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
How often do you run across organizations that claim they intend to be "fast followers&
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Another Enterprise 2.0 Provider Shows Growth – MindTouch – What are You Seeing?
Bill Ives via The FASTForward Blog on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
Jevon MacDonald posted an interesting piece, In uncertain times, Enterprise 2.0 takes the stage. He began with the statement that, “for many people the positioning of Enterprise 2.0 as a cost reduction engine is not new. Complexity reduction, effici
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Analysts: Enterprise 2.0 to Get Even More Affordable
Joe McKendrick via The FASTForward Blog on Tue, 04 Nov. 2008
One of the advantages Enterprise 2.0 approaches offer in many situations is the relatively low or incremental prices at which technology is made available to organizations. It looks like things will even get more affordable.
A recent report from Forrester Research predicts
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There’s A Watershed Moment Coming
Jon Husband via The FASTForward Blog on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
Many of us have written about the spread of social media and social computing, Enterprise 2.0 platforms and the emerging designs of capabilities for collaboration, the calls for management innovation and the realization that much of the changes yet to come relate to culture and the dynamics of interaction.
Here’s the Toronto Globe and Mail’s
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Organizing for Tough Times - Getting More for Less
(unknown author) via The FASTForward Blog on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
All of us who have worked in conventional organizations know what “More for less” means when our CEO tells us that that is our goal. It means big layoffs. It means those that remain will have more work to do. It means that the competition for scarce resources inside the enterprise will become even more deadly.
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A workbook on doing disruptive innovation effectively
Jim McGee via The FASTForward Blog on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work, Anthony, Scott D. et.al.
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth is t
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The shift to the web is becoming decisive for news
Rob Paterson via The FASTForward Blog on Mon, 20 Oct. 2008
This weekend the big news was General Powell’s endorsement of Senator Obama - how did most of us watch this - on the web.
Katie Couric’s interview with Governor Palin was the Rubicon moment that showed most of us that the Governor was not up to the job. How did most of us watch it -
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Dueling philosophies: social media vs. knowledge management
Jim McGee via The FASTForward Blog on Fri, 17 Oct. 2008
Venkat Rao of Xerox recently introduced an important argument about the underlying differences between social media and knowledge management approaches inside the Enterprise. Here’s the way I described them at delicious. Both are worth a look, a read, and some thought.
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In uncertain times, Enterprise 2.0 takes the stage
(unknown author) via The FASTForward Blog on Sat, 11 Oct. 2008
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"Enterprise 2.0 may not yet have fulfilled its biggest promise, the democratization of the enterprise, but as successes mount, those who may have ignored its rise will begin to take notice. In a time of uncertainty such as we have seen in the past several months, new and promising technologies may prove to be the safest harbour for those who must continue to deliv
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An Early (and Smart) Step Towards “Mainstreaming” Enterpise 2.0
Jon Husband via The FASTForward Blog on Sat, 11 Oct. 2008
At the end of September (seems so long ago now, doesn’t it?) Ross Mayfield’s Socialtext announced the go-to-market of SocialText 3.0 (Connected Collaboration With Context), involving the integration of Facebook and Twitter functionalities into the wiki-based Socialtext collaborative platform.
In my opinion this reinforces a major tren
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Awareness Report Shows Significant Rise in Enterprise Social Media - Will It Continue?
Bill Ives via The FASTForward Blog on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Here is another of the growing reports on research that indicates enterprise 2.0 is on the rise. Recently Awareness released a report on “Trends and Best Practices in Adopting Web 2.0 in 2008.” It shows that social media initiatives are on are increasing and continue to
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The Credit Crisis and Social Software - Part 1 - Why we need a return to credit based on social relationships
Rob Paterson via The FASTForward Blog on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
I have been quiet recently because events are so terrible that I wanted to be ready to offer some thoughts that might really help. Here is the first of a series that will, I hope, help you see why we are in such a jam now and why social software may offer us a a healthy and sustainable way out.
Am I qualified to speak about such things. I think so. I was an investment banker for 23 years
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The Sharepoint Sessions – Part Three – Sharepoint Best Practices Conference
Bill Ives via The FASTForward Blog on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
This is part three of my four part notes from a local event sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, “Real World Sharepoint Experiences.” Tim Farrell and Marcel Meth gave a recap of the recent Sharepoint best practices conference. This event sold out quickly and I understand that Microsoft m
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