Archive for the ‘On the road’ Category

From Computer Networks to Human Networks

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I’m in Amsterdam, at Orange Business Live 2010 – An event Orange Business Services runs each year, looking at the challenges and changes in the communications space. At the pre-event evening event one thing that really struck me was the value in networking and networks. Not just the global data networks that have been built [...]

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Really Social Business – The Key to Collaboration

Thursday’s Being-Social Mashup event turned into a focal point for recent thinking and discussion. I chaired a panel on “How Social Media is changing the way we communicate” with Andrew Davis, Chris Thorpe, Jamie Riddell and David Cushman. Of course, within that is the assumption it is changing communication (thanks to Mat Morrison for that question). The [...]

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Doing the Right Thing – It’s Not Easy – on RSS, iCal and Gravatars

Last week I had the pleasure of being over at South by South West in Austin, Texas. Although its roots are in the music industry, it is also one of the largest digital interactive events on the planet. Web folks, designers, programmers, agencies and big brands gather to talk technology, business and betterment. The session [...]

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From Business to Business to Person to Person

On Friday I had the privilege of speaking on a panel at Like Minds 2010 “Person to Person”, an event looking at the impact of Social Media, all the way from the media through to employee communication. We’ve enjoyed the onversations with organisers and founders Scott Gould and Drew Ellis, on the concepts behind person-to-person. The [...]

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Monkeys With Web Browsers

There’s an old joke (or is it a thought experiment?) that’s been updated for the Web 2.0 world: Q: If you gave an infinite number of  monkeys an infinite amount of time, would they reproduce the works of Shakespeare ? A: Now we have the blogosphere, we know that they won’t. The Internet, or more specifically [...]

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