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Enterprise Software Creates Silos

Something that I hear over and over again is the difficulty in communicating in large companies.  This is especially difficult across departments (even in the same department sometimes).  Often the root of the problem is company silo’s.
Being geographically dispersed has little to do with it. I’m just as likely to communicate the same way with […]

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Office 2.0 unconference

I just got back from the Office 2.0 unconference and I wanted to make a quick post on my highlights:
I met fellow HPer Jim Rawson and we dominated participated in a session on using internal Web 2.0 to collectively share and aggregate information across an organization. FreshBook’s Sunir Shah shared his work in progress wiki […]

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What do you do?

I always get two questions from people: “What do you do?” I explain to them that I am the LaserJet Web 2.0 Strategic Lead at HP. This is always followed with the question: “So what do you do?” The second question is much harder to answer.
Mike Manuel has a great post about […]

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The Death of Wrist Watches and Voice Messages

This post is for all you trend spotters out there.
Wrist Watches: Why bother?
I was at my brothers bachelor party a few months back when I asked everyone that was around the poker table what time it was. Not a single person knew. Now my brother is 10 years younger than I am and I’m pretty […]

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Capitalism as a Metaphor

This post is being revised as a page - The Book: Social Media Trifecta 
This is a thought I’ve been chewing on for a while. I often get a variation of the same question: “How do you monetize new media/Web 2.0?” or “How do you measure the ROI of new media/Web 2.0?”
Every business manager in America […]

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Top 10 posts, Stats and a Break

It is my 6 month blogiversary and I thought I would share with you my top ten posts to date.
#10) Business Social Networking- Social networking is coming to the business world in a big way. As I said here, traditional marketing is not where the power of new media will be fully realized.
#9) On […]

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The Importance of Information Aggregation

How are we expected to keep up with the speed at which information is coming at us?

Do you binge, like a tourist at a Vegas buffet?
Or do you purge and limit yourself like a super model?

Most people take one of two routes:

Binge until they burnout and then purge. Then like the […]

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How to Implement New Media inside Your Company

These tips are for all of my friends working inside of large companies, wanting to take advantage of new media but are not sure where to start. Here are some steps I recommend. This advice is meant for deployment *inside* your company. I find it a much easier sell to your higher […]

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Web 2.0 and New Media Definitions

There is a lot of confusion around the definitions of Web 2.0 vs New Media. You will hear a lot of people use them interchangeably. Even the above linked to Wikipedia definitions don’t offer much differentiation. So while theses may not be definitive this is the difference as I see them.
Web […]

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Saying the Right Thing

I was in class most of last week (which is why I was short on posts). As part of my EMBA program we had a New Venture Panel with 4 people who deal with new ventures almost daily. The feedback from my fellow class mates seems unanimous that this was the best panel […]

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