FASTforward - The Blog
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Discuss and debate how a new generation of search and search-driven applications are impacting the way we do business, compete, learn, build communities, socialize, and save, store, and search data.
The blog, like FASTforward '07, aims to drive and deepen conversation about how today’s companies can "Innovate, Accelerate and Dominate."
Please join us for what we hope will be a fun and engaging conversation that begins on the blog, is fully extended and realized at the conference, and, if we’re lucky, continues on past the conference.
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HR – The Math of Healthy Community 2 – Sales/Influence/Power 2.0
We are all “selling”. At the heart of us all we would at least like others to see what we see. True power is being truly heard. This may be selling a product. Or it may be changing the world of food or school – whatever. True power is when you and your idea finds [...]
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HR – The Math of Healthy Community
Many of us are starting to see that there is math that underpins human community – The Dunbar Number and related math that defines the hierarchies of trust are gaining credence as being “real“.
I think that they should be: for surely all else in Nature that is about relationships has math? Light, Gravity, Water and [...]
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Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Research from Cecile Demailly
Cecile Demailly at the French consulting firm, Early Strategies, recently completed an interesting study of enterprise 2.0 adoption. The report, Toward Enterprise 2.0: Making the Change in the Corporation, is based on an online survey conducted between November 2009 and January 2010. The participants included a primary set of people involved in enterprise 2.0 deployment, [...]
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HR – The Company of the Future – Automattic
5 reasons why your company should be distributed
I’ve noticed a new trend in Silicon Valley. More and more startups are beginning life as distributed companies, and investors and partners are starting to accept it as normal. Our company Automattic is distributed, and I’m ready to sing the praises of running a business in this way. BTW, I [...]
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Fortune 500 and Social Media: A Longitudinal Study of Blogging and Twitter Usage
The team of Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have been dong a number of studies on social media and business (see for example: Thinking Like A Blogger: Is Blogging An Attitude That Can Be Taught?). In 2009, they released one of the [...]
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Debate rages: should enterprise software look like Facebook?
Should we transform the business conversation the way Facebook transformed the consumer conversation, or has this already been happening?
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Global Intranet Trends 2010 Report
Jane McConnell is an intranet strategy consultant based in France who has worked with intranets since 1998. She recently published her fourth annual Intranet trends survey and report. Data was collected from nearly 300 organizations worldwide between June and September 2009. Organizations range from under 5,000 to over 100,000 employees. The five major trends for [...]
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Enter the ‘era of light computing’: social media is where the action is for organizations
Light computing and social CRM drive inter-customer communications.
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A framework for social learning in the enterprise
My colleague Harold Jarche often says … “work is learning, and learning is work”. And my FF blog colleague Rob Patterson is unpacking our current understanding of what a “job” is (Marshall McLuhan long ago signaled that when we began communicating with each other at the speed of light, it would mean the demise of [...]
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HR Series – The Core Business Process – Not serving the customer but gaming the budget
Many look forward to the day when technology will enable their organization to become a real 2.0 place that draws on the full energy and knowledge of all who work there. Don’t hold your breath! There is a process that is in the way that all ignore. But it is the central implementation barrier.
Many years [...]
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