SPF13
DECEMBER 21, 2009
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Â . Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution.
Fountainhead
MAY 12, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. But so little attention is being paid to identifying & profiling which applications are best-suited to actually run in an external "cloud.
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Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Last week I gave the opening keynote at IPZ2009 Interactive Marketing Summit in Istanbul. Here are my slides for my keynote on the Future of Interactive Marketing. It was a fantastic event, the fourth annual IPZ conference organized by Günseli Özen Ocako?lu and Hakan Senbir of Marketing & Management Institute, which publishes a range of leading magazines including Marketing Türkiye.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 23, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Top 5 Reasons Why Agile Development Spurs Innovation.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
At the end of Q3 2009 we counted over 82 billion objects in Amazon S3. Congrats to the team for providing such a rock solid service! When looking at the graph keep in mind that the first 4 markers are a year apart, but the last one only 6 months.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JULY 28, 2009
I revisited the following, originally posted in July ‘07 , after putting Douglas Hofstadter ’s Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language back onto my currently-reading list. It is still relevant, so thought it worth sharing again. With any luck, I’ll have some new insights to share after I’ve read the book again. = = == ==.
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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
DECEMBER 2, 2009
This IBF blog post from Paul Miller about the coming of “Intranet 3.0” gives 3 very good examples of large corporate intranets pushing the boundaries of internal communication and collaboration. Although I am not a fan of these meaningless numeric names such as Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0 (I’ve even seen Web 1.5 being used!) the eight Intranet 3.0 trends listed can - when combined - represent no less than a workplace revolution.
Storage IO Blog
APRIL 19, 2009
'StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV (Audio/Video) About Greg & others books Select Has SSD put Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) On Endangered Species List? April 19, 2009 – 10:56 am Print PDF Disclosure: I have been a user, vendor, author and analyst covering and a fan (and continue to be) of SSD for over 20 years I have thought and wanting to post about this for a while, however recently several things popped up including moderating a panel where a vendor representative told t
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
'Officer Tim Brenton. On Friday, November 6th at 1:00 PM, five thousand people gathered in Seattle to grieve for Seattle Police Officer Tim Brenton who was murdered in his police cruiser. At 3:30 PM the killer was caught , after a week of diligent detective work, and through use of video technology. This tragic incident illustrates why first responders need improved technology, including a modern 4th generation (4G) wireless network.
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They say a defense can be measured by its weakest link. In your cybersecurity posture, what––or who––is the weakest link? And how can you make them stronger? This webinar will equip you with the resources to search for quality training, implement it, and improve the cyber-behaviors of your workforce. By the end of the hour, you will feel empowered to improve the aspects of your security posture you control the least – the situational awareness and decision-making of your workforce.
SPF13
MARCH 27, 2009
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed. Image via CrunchBase. For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter.
Fountainhead
JUNE 29, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, June 29, 2009. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments. Ive been spending some significant time analyzing new entries into the blade computing market, and poking around in the corners where the trade rags and analysts have failed to investigate.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 2, 2009
Tomorrow morning I'm doing a presentation to the top executive team of a very large organization on the next 20 years. Most of what I will cover will be general societal, business and technological drivers as well as specific strategic issues driving their business. However as part of stretching their thinking I'll also speak a about the Singularity.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 12, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, October 12, 2009. Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation.
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All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Today marks the launch of Amazon RDS - the Amazon Relational Database Service. Amazon RDS is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Amazon RDS handles all the "muck" of relational database management freeing up its users to focus on their applications and business.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JULY 29, 2009
Another of my posts from the past, on a similar theme as my re-post last night of Knowledge in translation. This time, the translation in question is that between the language of autism and the language of the non-autistic. = = == ==. WHAT IS YOUR LANGUAGE. Everyone has their own path to follow through life. Easy to say, somewhat harder to believe because most of our daily experiences involve others who live incredibly similar lives to ours.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
My reading this summer included Chris Anderson's book, " Free " (I got the Kindle edition, available for a limited time as a free download, of course). Anderson's seminal work, " The Long Tail " helped explain to a generation how the distribution model of the Internet has fundamentally changed economics of many businesses by spreading fixed costs over previously unimaginably huge audiences/markets.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
DECEMBER 5, 2009
I thought of reposting my list of cultural traits that identify an organization where the corporate culture is not conducive to knowledge sharing and therefore creativity and innovation. This list combines the 16 from this post and 4 from this one. And here is a challenge to anyone reading this: Do you know one medium or large company with an internal culture not bearing a single of these 20 traits?
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Trends in the Living Networks
JULY 20, 2009
Today we launch our Social Media Strategy Framework. This provides guidance and a frame on how organizations can approach engaging with social media, following in the tradition of our highly popular frameworks such as Web 2.0 Framework , Future of the Media Lifecycle , and Influence Landscape. Click on the image to download pdf. This is a Beta version, pulled together to release before The Insight Exchange’s Social Media Strategy event today.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 15, 2009
For many years I have believed that our everyday interfaces with computers are deeply limited, and that creating more effective interfaces is central to our future. In my 2002 book Living Networks I selected Interfaces as one of the three key enablers that would bring the networks to life. Pranav Mistry of MIT Media Lab's SixthSense has made his mission integrating our gestures in the physical world with the digital world.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 30, 2009
In his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century , James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive. For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history. The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing to bid farewell to helped to tear up the fairly linear progress of the first decade of the century.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
To anticipate what will shape 2010, we need to understand the TENsions that will define the opening year of the TENsions decade. The TENsions that are most prominent will evolve during the course of the decade. However the accelerating pace of change means that TENsions will inevitably define the decade, in myriad forms. These are the 10 TENsions for 2010, the opening year of the TENsions. 1.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 3, 2009
This morning I did the opening keynote to the top executive team of a major organization.at their strategy offsite. It's not appropriate to share the full presentation, however I can share the rough scenarios I presented for the world to 2030. The scenarios were presented after having examined the driving forces and critical uncertainties for the company.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 24, 2009
I was just asked "what is a social media expert"? Marshall McLuhan is still the oracle. Here is one of my favorite quotes from the master. "Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose.
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
One of the most interesting topics at the recent Future of Influence Summit was the emergence of business models for influence. Some particularly intriguing issues were raised in the Business Models for Influence and Reputation panel , suggesting that one of the key currencies of the future will be influence. The panellists generally agreed that total revenue in the influence sector, including the companies represented on the panel ( Rapleaf , Buzzlogic , Klout ) is around US$100 million.
SPF13
DECEMBER 11, 2009
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors.
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SPF13
DECEMBER 20, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. Many other organizations both large and small have found it to be a perfect platform for managing their website including some Fortune 100 companies. I decided to compile a list of some of the more notable organizations running drupal. This list is not exhaustive, but intended to demonstrate top site powered by drupal.
Trends in the Living Networks
MARCH 12, 2009
A centrepiece of our recently launched Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report is an Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework. Click on the image below to download the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework pdf , which includes references to the relevant chapters for each of the action steps. Some of the chapters referred to are available for download from the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 downloads page.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 14, 2009
While online technologies have transformed the media along many dimensions, one of the most important ways of understanding this is in how the news cycle has changed. In the old days news was broken on real-time channels such as radio and TV, reinforced and pushed out to a broader audience through newspapers, discussed again in chat shows, and sometimes had life added to the news with updates or responses.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 15, 2009
One of the most interesting issues regarding Twitter is its impact on the media and journalism. The Insight Exchange is running a lunch event Twitter’s Impact on Media & Journalism in Sydney on 23 June which promises to be extremely interesting, with insights from among others Mark Pesce , Renai Lemay , Paul Colgan and Corrie McLeod (click on the names to see pre-event interviews of the speakers by Beth Etling ) as well as in-depth discussion by all participants.
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