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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Enter the ‘Chief Listening Officer’… or Shouldn’t We All be CLOs?
Irina Slutsky of Advertising Age just posted an interesting article on how some companies have created “Chief Listening Officer” posts, intended to oversee the mining of company mentions across social media venues and provide trending analysis.
At Kodak, Beth LaPierre has that role, charged with sifting through 300,000 new mentions of Kodak a month.
Susan Beebe at [...]
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Tapping the Potential of Enterprise 2.0 for Workplace Learning
I was very pleased to receive a review copy of The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. Tony is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). Marcia is a Partner at Altimeter Group, founder of the Twitter chat #lrnchat, and she writes the Fast Company [...]
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The end of Text Books – The End of School too?
It’s back to school. One of the worst things about being a student are text books. They cost a bomb. They are “New” every year but like many new cars new only in a minor way. They are Mandatory. They are often out of date – always boring and often wrong.
In the emerging web world – will [...]
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Networked Workplaces and The Evolving Social Organization
Several months ago I posted an article written by my colleague Harold Jarche titled “A Framework for Social Learning in the Enterprise” which synthesized the core concepts, ideas and past experience explored in a range of conversations with his ITA colleagues.
Harold in collaboration with Thierry de Baillon, a leading French management thinker in the Enterprise [...]
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Summer’s Over – Going back to email hell – Or Not?
Email usage has dropped 28% in the last 12 months! (Matt Forcey)
A recent study by Nielsen that focused on how Americans spend their time online, unexpectedly found that email usage has dropped by 28% over the last year. Since we’re certainly not communicating any less, what are people doing as an alternative? Not surprisingly, the [...]
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Majority of US Consumers Say They Will Engage in Online Crowd-sourcing
Forester recently presented data indicating that sixty-one percent of all US online adults are willing co-creators, and they are open to co-creating across a large range of industries. At the same time, Forrester reports that consumer product strategy professionals indicated that half of all companies are not using social media to engage their customers in [...]
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Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One
Social enterprises don’t just spring out of some primordial corporate soup, they need good leaders to get them to the promised tribal lands. And we’re not talking about aggressive, power-obsessed leaders — the new leaders for the Business 2.0 organization need to be willing to let their communities take the lead with new initiatives.
Our FastForward [...]
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TV May Be the Next Social Media Checkin Targat After Location
Foursquare has become huge as a location checkin service. There are others, as well in the field. I have not gotten the bug but it took me a while to warm up to Twitter. Now, as Mashable reports, a number of services have popped up that re-purpose the checkin concept, popularized by Foursquare, and connect [...]
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Bill Gates on Adoption in K-12 and Education
Few people are as passionate about Education than BG. Here he is talking about what he has learned by a lot of experiments.
That K-12 is best as an immersive system with long days – best 6 days a week and in the summer as well. The best charter schools know this and practice it. Having had all my school [...]
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The Failure of Traditional Intranets
Oscar Berg posted a useful piece on why traditional intranets fail today’s knowledge workers that I learned about through Twitter and Marcia Conner. Oscar begins with some stats on the increasing amount of knowledge-based work. He writes that a study by The Work Foundation estimated our workforce has 30 per cent in jobs with high [...]
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