Posts Tagged ‘business disruption’

Eerily accurate predictions from AT&T 1993 television advertising

Take a look at this interesting montage of television advertising from AT&T from nearly 20 years ago.

The “You Will” series looked at what you will be able to do in the future. It’s amazing how many of the predictions the ads got right – there

Program this Friday: Intangibles and Security

Tax payers expect police, national guard, and military to provide “real” security. Government expects the private sector to provide the lion’s share of security investment. Is there a business case that can help the private sector rationalize the investment and bridge the expectation gap? Join us Friday, 3 September, at …

Intellectual Property And The Cloud

Wall Street is quite happy collecting the royalties of the creative people in America – those people who actually produce something real and tangible. Social media is a social contract and Intellectual Property is our tangible currency.

Content Marketing: Top Sites Share High Value Content

A few days ago, Joe Pulizzi and Junta42 released its listing of Top Content Marketing sites. If it’s possible to be proud and humble simultaneously, my spot in the rankings (#10) ignited such a feeling. As fellow J42er, Gavin Heaton…

Video: From Social Graphs to Interest Graphs

In next installment of discussions exploring the state and future of social media, Chris Beck, founder of 26dottwo (@26dottwo) and I review how relationships online are evolving from social networks to social “nicheworks” or contextual networks. In social media, how we connect with one another reflects our interests as well as our contacts. We’re adapting [...]

Where is the Social Train Going?

The ROI from social media is called listening and learning to predict based on the conversations of the market

Could AT&T kill the iPhone Brand?

According to a study conducted by Gartner, the first quarter of 2010 witnessed a whopping 707 percent increase in Android sales. As a result, the sales of the Google Android OS-based smartphones have surpassed the sales of the Microsoft Windows Mobile-based handsets around the world.

Use Value Network maps to understand how your organization works

We usually look at organizational networks at three levels. The first (described as a knowledge factory) is at a strategic level, built on the high-level inventory of an organization’s intangible capital. Today, I’ll talk about the next takes the perspective of the knowledge factory down one more level of detail …

Is Blogging and Commenting Still Important Tools in Social Media?

Quite a few folks talking and writing about whether “blogging” is still relevant or not and where has commenting gone? on Scripting News: A Proposal – A New Kind of Blog Comment System on Helloform: Dear Dave – I Have…

People on the Move in the Social Business Industry: August 25, 2010

Both the submissions on this job announcement board, as well as available social media positions at corporations continue to pour in. In fact, this is the second time this month I’m posting this “On The Move” post due to submission volume. Clearly, there is more activity happening in the industry from my perspective, [...]