We’ve been asked to do some research on how social technologies are, and will, impact the new U.S. health care reform in a couple of different areas. One of the areas we are focusing on is Employee Wellness.
Our experience in working with many Human Resource (HR) departments over the years, is that most have a [...]
Are you?
We’ve been speaking with a number of organizations over the past several years, and doing some pretty cool work with some who “get” why being socially connected is good for business. But there are far more, who find an excuse to do nothing.
Entering 2010, we’ve rounded up the Top 7 Barriers we’ve found to [...]
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Lots of chatter out there about Google Chrome, the integration of social functionality into the desktop, the rebirth of the “network as the computer” movement and so on. The tectonic shifts in what we compute, how and why continue.
While the elephants like Google and Facebook play I wonder what [...]
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We have long been proponents of leveraging the energy of a crowd to get something done. Social media in effect, is this approach applied through technology, again and again. Many companies, however, are hesitant to open the gates too wide fearing the havoc an unwieldy crowd may unleash. Areas such as product development, [...]
Wikipedia, the grand daddy of shared knowledge sites is taking its own medicine and allowing the public to create its new business plan using a wiki. A recent Globe and Mail article describes the project. Now this is interesting; living your business by allowing your community more direct and open access to your business.
I wonder if Twitter’s recent [...]
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The Phoenix, humanity’s latest Mars rover is updating its progress live via Twitter. How about that. You can follow the latest developments via Twitter here. Beow are the tweets from the landing.
OK, this ain’t sales or even business, but you’d have to be headless not to see the implications.
THINK / Musings
occasional thoughts by john borthwick
FUTURE OF NEWS
I saw the future of news unfold today. We were on a conference call with Jay who was in Falls Church VA - he heard an explosion - Dave posted [...]
