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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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
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.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 12, 2009
Given the extreme popularity of our Social Media Strategy Framework , we decided to translate it into other languages. The translations have been serialized on my blog over the last couple of weeks, and here they are compiled into a single post. Social Media Strategy Framework in 11 languages. (scroll down for frameworks and links to the full post).
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 17, 2009
I very rarely find the time to write magazine articles, but I was delighted to write the opening feature article for MediaTitles 2010, an annual publication which covers the media and magazine industry. To see the article in the full splendor of the print version, go to the MediaTitles website , which has the full publication viewable using Realview Technologies (with the article reformatted to take out the lists of four, which I think is a pity).
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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Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Our Social Media Strategy Framework released a few months ago has been getting a lot of attention and downloads. Based on the feedback we've been getting, one of the things that was missing in the first Beta version was a clearer explanation of the structure of the diagram, which has two simultaneous flows down the left and right sides of the circle.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 11, 2009
Sysomos has just released extensive research on Twitter use , filled with all sorts of fascinating information, such as 72% of Twitter users have joined since the beginning of this year, 53% of Twitterers are women, and marketers are 50 times more likely than normal people to follow over 2000 people. I am always interested in comparing countries, so I pulled out and analyzed their statistics on where Twitter users are located to calculate the proportion of the population that are use Twitter.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 8, 2009
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a zillion different file types and properly comments each. It can handle single line, multi line, partial line commenting as well as nesting. If you’re programming in VIM you really should be using it. It is simple enough to use. Most commands are mapped to ,c[character].
Fountainhead
AUGUST 24, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, August 24, 2009. Products for Cloud Ops vs. Traditional Ops. Most in IT agree that cloud computing - while not a technology - does impact how technology is used within IT, and also implies a change in how IT operations will manage infrastructure.
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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.
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 11, 2009
This morning Future Exploration Network issued this press release (excuse the hyperbole :-) ) I have already done several radio interviews on the forecasts in the release with quite a few more radio, newspaper and TV interviews lined up for the next days - the ideas seem to have struck a chord. Futurist proved correct! …and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 20, 2009
The latest issue of People and Strategy Journal has an extremely interesting Point/ Counterpoint feature. Download the full article and responses here. Karen Stephenson , a leading network theorist and practitioner, wrote an article Neither Hierarchy nor Network: An Argument for Heterarchy , examining how heterarchies, that bring together elements of networks and hierarchies, are the most relevant organizational structures for our times.
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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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 16, 2009
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. Duncan Watts is one of a handful of scientists instrumental in developing the study of networks as a key scientific discipline. He tells his story in his book Six Degrees , which begins by recounting how he found a subject for his Ph.D in mathematics in biological phenomena, which turned out to be based on networks, a
Trends in the Living Networks
MAY 25, 2009
Below are my slides for my keynote at the MegaTrends conference at Abu Dhabi. As for all my presentations, note that these slides are designed to accompany my speech and not to be viewed on their own, though may still be useful. Keynote: Profiting from Accelerating Change - MegaTrends Abu Dhabi Conference View more OpenOffice presentations from rossdawson.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 22, 2009
Over the last years I have spent significant time assisting professional services firms to drive innovation. This year I am finding that the economic climate is intensifying the focus on these issues rather than pushing them to the background. The pressures that commoditize services are intensifying, local and global competition is increasing, and clients are seeking value in different forms than they have in the past.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 22, 2009
For a recent boardroom presentation to a group of CEOs of large organizations I prepared ten ‘dos and donts’ on my topic of organizational change. Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework. I drew on the core ideas in our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report and framework (as above). Enterprise 2.0 is ultimately far more about organizational change than technology, though it happens to be driven by web technologies.
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