Getting Started with Google Sidewiki

The announcement about Google Sidewiki surprised me last Thursday when I found out about it via a Twitter link to Jeremiah Owyang’s blog post.  In simple terms, Sidewiki lets anyone to contribute useful information next to any webpage.  Sidewiki appears as a collapsible browser sidebar where you can read and post comments.
Being an early adopter, I [...]

Social Software in Business Survey

Mzinga and Babson Executive Education recently conducted a survey on social software in business and the results became available this month.
The highlight of the survey for me was that 61% of the companies in the survey use social technologies as an ongoing part of their business.
However, several challenges emerged in terms of budget, resources and ROI.
Only [...]

Reflections on 50

Today is my 50th birthday and so far, being 50 is not so bad.
In fact, I feel it is actually a good thing to reach what I consider to be the half-way checkpoint on my way to one hundred.  And because I have an almost 3-year old daughter, I am definitely taking the long term [...]

Yogi Berra on Social Media

Last week, I started reading a book called “Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee” and am amazed by how much I have learned about Yogi so far.  I am only up to page 70 in the book, but I am already convinced that Yogi is (was) the best catcher who played the game (sorry Bill Dickey and [...]

Highlights from McKinsey’s Global Study on How Companies are Benefiting from Web 2.0

The management consulting firm of McKinsey & Company has been tracking and analyzing the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies for the last three years.  In this year’s study, they wanted to determine if companies were getting measurable business benefits from their investments in Web 2.0 technologies.
The short answer is YES as noted in this excerpt [...]

Social Media Update from Forrester Groundswell

Forrester’s Groundswell Interactive Marketing team published their 3rd annual Social Technographics Profile in a report last week in a document called “The Broad Reach of Social Technologies” (costs $499 if you want to read the whole report).  The results show that more than 80% of online Americans are active in either creating, participating in, or [...]

introNetworks – The “Quiet” Social Network Software Company

My friend Derek Showerman introduced me to Mark Sylvester, CEO of introNetworks last week because Mark and I both live on the West Coast, and Derek thought I would be intrigued with the introNetworks social network and community software platform.  It also turned out that introNetworks was hosting a web chat on community management [...]