Considering Klout to Lithium Rumors: Mashing Up Content, Influence, and Digital Communities
Earlier this week, I had a conversation with several members of one the world's most recognizable technology companies. During the conversation, I mentioned Klout, Little Bird, and Lithium, among several other companies doing interesting things on the fringes of mainstream corporate technology … Read More»
This weeks best content – Jan 19 thru 24, 2014
Hello and a happy Friday to you. Please find the best articles from the past week. Please feel free to share and comment. To your success, Brian Storify by Brian VellmureFri, Jan 24 2014 12:14:02This weeks best - Jan 19 thru 24 Hello and a happy Friday to you. Please find the best … Read More»
Keynote Recap: How technology is reshaping human behavior (and what you should be doing about it)
Earlier this week, I had the privilege to present the opening address keynote at Frost & Sullivan’s Executive MindXchange at the JW Marriott in Tucson, AZ to a group of more than 300 customer experience and contact center executives from organizations like American Express, Citigroup, Intuit, Eli … Read More»
Enterprise Software Chronicles: A synthesis of the rapidly evolving customer technology landscape
Over the past several weeks, I've had the privilege to have hundreds of conversations with technology vendor executives, resellers and system integrators, consultants and companies of all sizes (enterprise, mid-sized, and SMBs) across a variety of industries; high tech, professional services, … Read More»
Mary Meeker & KPCB Internet Trends 2013
This morning, Mary Meeker and Liang Wu of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers released and presented the 2013 version of the always insightful Internet Trends report. Key takeaways: - China and India are far ahead in most added users to the internet over the past 5 years - China far in excess of … Read More»
The era of asking great questions
I’ll never forget meeting some people in a remote village of Laos (Southeast Asia) a few years ago. The village had no electricity. Not only was it a journey across culture and geography, but a journey back in time. Our translator helped us to ask about how they lived. They told us how they farmed, … Read More»
The truly networked world we still can’t quite grasp
This post is on behalf of the CIO Collaboration Network and Avaya As the world races to connect, share, interact, and learn, new pathways are opening up for value to be created along the way. Parallel to these connections happening, the lines between information, people, and things are blurring. … Read More»
Just press the easy button
"To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying and gives moreover a feeling of power. Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown – the first instinct is to eliminate these distressing states. First principle: any explanation is better than none…" – … Read More»
Seizing Opportunity in a Hyper-Dynamic Environment
This post is on behalf of the CIO Collaboration Network and Avaya Did you know that in the past 3 years, we've seen: Encyclopedia Brittanica go out of print after 244 years Newspaper Ad Revenue surpassed by Internet Advertising after 305 years Number of Landlines surpassed by Mobile … Read More»
Leveraging Social Business & Gamification to achieve Organizational Flow
Between Arousal and Control lies Flow. We could probably stop there (but don't - read on). Think on that for just a minute. Lots of Mindsparks emerge quickly for me. Between arousal and control lies 'flow' via @Mich8elwu at #digitslsurrey— guy stephens (@guy1067) May 26, … Read More»