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.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, September 10, 2009. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box. Todays announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egeneras relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single p

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 29, 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. Ranking Social Media. In business itâ??s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on â??

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 29, 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, September 29, 2009. Why CIOs need to put Enterprise 2.0 high on their agenda.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

In the past week both Vivek Kundra, the U.S. CIO, and Casey Coleman, the CIO of the GSA, have made very strong statements in supporting the use of cloud computing to power Federal programs. A good example is today's announcement about apps.gov. In conversations with Vivek and Casey, I am struck every time by how much their observations that Federal CIOs are focused too much on infrastructure issues are similar to the observations within Amazon a number of years ago that motivated us to develop t

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Occasionally I’m asked what I think about being the parent of an autistic son. Over the years (about 16 now) I’ve had the chance to give it some thought, and I have to say that although my opinions on quite a few things related to autism have evolved - and some have outright changed - there is one thing that I’ve always believed: Parenting an autistic child is, first and foremost, nothing more - and nothing less - than parenting a child.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. A real-world cloud user shares his findings. I subscribe to a number of mailing lists from my alma mater. A few weeks ago, an alum "John" posted a request for recommendations for a cloud computing vendor for his small investment firm.

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In business it’s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on “best seller” charts. While this isn’t a perfect metric, it is largely useful due to the innate control built within. There is friction to a sale in that buying something costs money of which people have a limited supply. This makes it so that someone couldn’t just repeatedly buy their own song, album, book or movie and have a best seller (not to mention they would be losing a

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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.

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CIO Rant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

To help me plan out the direction and content for the Tramp and Tumble blog over the next couple of months I created a mind map to collect and sort the various topics that I want to discuss there. One of the things that I love about Mind Manager is that it has such a nice looking, and useful, final product that hides all the effort that actually goes into creating the map.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework , today is German. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf. Please share this with any German speakers. Also be sure to let me know if you can suggest any improvements to the translation.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, September 22, 2009. Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service Productivity". Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP).

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 28, 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. My Own Private Blogathon. Someone once said a goal is a dream until you write it down â?¦ in your blog and tell the world about it.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

In this window between Microsoft's July Worldwide Partner Conference (with many Office 2010 previews) and Microsoft's October SharePoint Conference, I'm working to learn about Microsoft's Office 2010 applications. A recently posted video shows an interesting aspect of Office 2010: Office Web Applications that are positioned as an on-line companion to the richer Office client experience, for users with only a browser and needs for high-fidelity collaboration around Office documents.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework , today we are launching the Spanish edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf. Please share this with any Spanish speakers who would be interested. Also be sure to let me know if you can suggest any improvements to the translation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework , today we are launching the Italian edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf. Please share this with any Italian speakers. Also be sure to let me know if you can suggest any improvements to the translation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Was just catching up on Ray Wang and Jeremiah Owyang joining Charlene Li's Altimeter group from Altimeter. Jeremiah is quoted in the New York Times : Mr. Owyang said that his story holds lessons for other companies. “I think this is an interesting trend that many companies are going through — personal brands are here to stay, alongside corporate ones, and the key to success is to make sure they help each other,” he said.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework , today is Dutch. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English. Click on image to download pdf. Please share this with any Dutch speakers who would be interested. Also be sure to let me know if you can suggest any improvements to the translation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Yesterday I did a keynote for Publishers Australia on Creating the Future of Media , pointing to driving forces, key strategic issues, and action items for media companies today, with Iggy Pintado also presenting on leveraging social media in publishing. The event attracted more attendees than any similar event organized by Publishers Australia so far, so clearly these issues are at the top of the agenda for the industry.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Dion Hinchcliffe has written a useful post titled Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices , reviewing some of the work in the space, and with the intent of building a broader catalog of best practices. There is already valuable information in the post, and I’m sure Dion’s research will yield useful insights. However I have to say upfront don’t believe in the concept of “best practice” with regard to almost any business activity, particularly with Enterprise 2.0.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Influence is the topic of the moment (as well as the next decade). In the wake of our very successful Future of Influence Summit earlier this week, not one but two significant studies of influence on Twitter were released today. An extensive study titled The Influentials: New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter , created measures for relative influence, tracking in detail 12 popular users.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

I notice that Imogen Heap is continuing with the free streaming of her album Ellipse. And no doubt significantly because of the free streaming, Ellipse is charting at #5 on Billboard. It is a glorious album, though I think we can pretty definitely count the free streaming of the album on the web as a very effective strategy. Perhaps it will become commonplace to stream music for free in order to maximize sales.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph published an article titled Tech to the future that looks at what’s coming next in consumer and social technologies. Unfortunately it isn’t available online, however here are the sections where I was quoted: Futurist and author Ross Dawson says the next big shifts will pivot around how we connect to other people and “how we share the content of our lives with others.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

ABC Radio National Future Tense this morning featured a discussion on the future of influence ( click here for the podcast of both the radio program, and the unabridged discussion between Duncan Riley and myself). It kicks off with a quote from Chris Saad saying that influence and reputation are the currencies of the day, even more than attention. When asked why we rebadged Future of Media Summit as Future of Influence Summit this year, I explained why “ influence is the future of media ”, and t

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Someone once said a goal is a dream until you write it down … in your blog and tell the world about it. In an effort to focus on blogging a bit more frequently I have decided to start a blogathon beginning today. I will write a post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next four weeks. I think this rate will permit me to continue to keep quality posts, while increasing the frequency and consequently the quantity.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Nginx is a relatively new web server that has a light footprint and relatively easy configuration. The following configuration demonstrates how to properly use nginx as a load balancer in front of two web servers. pid /var/run/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; sendfile on; keepalive_timeout 75; proxy_buffering off; log_not_found off; error_log /dev/null; access_log off; proxy_connect_timeout 20; client_header_timeout

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, September 14, 2009. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II. Last week I posted a Blog outlining Dell & Egeneras latest Datacenter-in-a-Box offering. More than one person took note of how I compared its simplicity in contrast to other offerings in the same space, but failed to detail the specifics of Egeneras PAN Manager software and how it mapped to 13 common I

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Steve Francia in CIO Magazine I don’t know what could be more shocking that opening this month’s edition of CIO magazine and discovering that my blog, this very blog that you are currently reading is one of two blogs featured this month. I am humbled and honored to be mentioned and included with such great peers. To all my new readers I look forward to connecting with you via Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, September 7, 2009. Where the Server Industry Went Amiss. Ive been doing an analysis regarding how "complexity" has evolved in the datacenter. Fundamentally, just why is it so hard to configure & provision new (physical) servers?

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