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OCTOBER 2, 2006

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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JUNE 28, 2006

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Announcing the Future of Media Summit 2006 | Main | Will mainstream advertising die? For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Everyone’s data streams for everything visible everywhere | Main | Corporate blogging becomes Enterprise 2.0 Justin Thorp wonders whether virtual worlds are ready for mainstream acceptance.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Future Exploration Network. In 2009, companies will truly embrace social networks, blogs, and other Web 2.0 He is CEO of consulting firm Advanced Human Technologies , based in Sydney and San Francisco, and Chairman of Future Exploration Network , a global events and consulting firm specializing in the future of business.

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MARCH 28, 2008

For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! The issue of how countries can support productive media activity is something I will spend considerably more time on over the next years, as this is one of the fundamental drivers of national economic success.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

On one-level “network-centric warfare” (see for example the US Department Defence report to Congress on this) has grown to prominence – or even predominance – in military strategic thinking over the last four years. However social network analysis has been applied by intelligence agencies and law enforcement for decades.

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APRIL 9, 2008

I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter!

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FEBRUARY 13, 2006

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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NOVEMBER 30, 2005

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The heart of professional services strategy | Main | Best books of 2005 » What is the future for newspapers? newspapers showing a circulation drop of 2.6% for weekdays (after falling 1.9%

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APRIL 13, 2007

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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MAY 12, 2006

I have no doubt that the analysis techniques used on this data were primarily network mapping, using software such as Netmap , which I described in an earlier article on social networks and intelligence applications. Searching for patterns in this data is a network analysis application, and the state of the art is pretty good now.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! This seems like a useful study in getting more detail on what organizations can do to enhance collaboration, in a world where collaboation drives organizational performance more than just about any other factor.

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AUGUST 3, 2007

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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MARCH 19, 2008

For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Of course there is never a substitute for human interaction and genuine love. But if that is complemented by other stimulating and engaging interaction, that’s all for the good. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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MARCH 4, 2006

and Microsoft of the 53 companies that are members of the Network Roundtable. and Microsoft of the 53 companies that are members of the Network Roundtable. I am the research leader for this last category of external connectivity work at the Network Roundtable, though I apply ONA across a broader range of areas with my clients.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

While Second Life already provides a quasi-3D environment, a couple of steps beyond is where we will use video glasses, gloves, and other immersive interfaces so that we will experience actually being there, rather than seeing ourselves in a virtual world. Pipes , while Ning allowed people to set up their own social networks.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2006

Continued: : The Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #1 Client Sophistication For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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FEBRUARY 27, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Lloyds TSB pilots social media | Main | BRW Digital Edition: new-style journalism and some insights into Web 2.0 » Will libraries disappear in 2019? Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Implementing Web 2.0 For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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FEBRUARY 15, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Announcing: Web 2.0 Part of my presentation covered how effective organizational networks underpin the ability to create value. Without them, communication can break down.

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APRIL 18, 2006

To address this critical issue, CNET asked me to do a research study on this topic, which I did with Rob Cross of the Network Roundtable at the University of Virginia, Andrew Parker of Stanford University, and key CNET executives. Here is the link to the full CNET report on technology purchase influence networks.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Who is capturing the new industry of online classifieds? For the most current insights and trends in the living networks, follow @rossdawson on Twitter! Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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AUGUST 21, 2006

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. The first is that a large proportion of social networking will shift to mobile platforms. There are a few critical points to add here. I will be beating this drum more in the future.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The state of Enterprise 2.0: About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The state of Enterprise 2.0:

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APRIL 15, 2008

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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MAY 5, 2006

Influence networks are at the heart The article then goes on to discuss emerging opportunities for the PR profession. It is far more about being engaged in the flow of messages through an intensely networked world than it is about formal communication. The six facets I identify are: 1. Clients expect more 2. Media is transformed 3.

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AUGUST 7, 2006

I have broken this out as a separate piece here, as many people interested in industry network analysis may not have delved into the report. I have broken this out as a separate piece here, as many people interested in industry network analysis may not have delved into the report. New media companies such as Yahoo!,

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Successful Enterprise 2.0 About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Successful Enterprise 2.0

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MAY 22, 2006

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Many organizations seem to think the enterprise social network software will provide an immediate solution, and many have stumbled already in applying these tools.

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MAY 27, 2006

However the next years and decades will, step by step, move towards games being virtually indistinguishable from our everyday world. The VirtuSphere takes gaming to a whole new level, allowing users to walk inside a virtual space “while being totally immersed” — through the head-mounted display system.

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JULY 16, 2006

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « No astroturfing around here! Main | Live videostream for the Future of Media Summit » Talking about the future. The entire interview is available as an mp3 download (14MB).

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MAY 5, 2006

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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MARCH 2, 2007

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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JUNE 11, 2007

I’ll be doing a keynote titled: We, Evolved: networks of influence: The power of the social network - word of mouth, buzz, curation – has never been stronger. Can we, the marketer, influence these networks overtly or only covertly? Can we, the marketer, influence these networks overtly or only covertly?

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MAY 7, 2008

I first came across his work in the mid-1990s, when he was one of the first people in world applying social network analysis approaches to organizations, for his then-employer BHP. Many other great reports and industry network maps are available from the Optimice website. Laurie says on his inaugural post : Now to the governance bit.

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MARCH 28, 2007

Observing people’s personal networks is one of the best ways to predict success. Building on ideas and references from an earlier post I made , here are some useful ways to understand high-performance personal networks. Their personal networks have the following characteristics: • Diversity. Visibility. Investment.

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JULY 1, 2007

The author is Mark Pesce , noted for being the co-inventor of VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) (which I was a big fan of when it came out – I wrote about it in my first book which came out in 2000) and his immoderate thoughts on the future of media – in other words an extremely credible commentator on an often muddied field.

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