If the Recession is Long, Web 2.0 Startups Could Be Screweddotbomb, dotbrightfutureThe same thing happened after the dotcom crash. Marketing budgets were squeezed as organisations struggled to get real value from the web. They did that eventually though. A lot of what was promised then has now been delivered. It...
Last week I told you about Acuity, a new service that lets clients schedule their own appointments with you via a Web-based interface. My only complaint was that site seemed like a work in progress. If you had similar concerns, check out Genbook, a similar appointment-scheduling service with a more...
Vince Casarez, vice president of product management at Oracle, explains how Web 2.0 technologies, such as tags, wikis, and mash-ups, can be applied within an organization.
Communications drives business. Thus, Web-based phrase generators can spark your career. Want to pontificate like an academic? Use this phrase generator. Need to speak like you know your Web 2.0 (and don't mind a little salty language)? Click here. Random words can spark new thoughts. Or wow your...
The onslaught of Web 2.0 and social networking is unstoppable. Blogs, wikis, advanced collaboration tools, rich Internet applications, and other incarnations of the same underlying technologies are rapidly becoming ingrained elements of our Internet culture. Consequently, regardless of whether or not "the business" formally adopts such solutions, IT...
Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek.com caused quite a stir a few weeks ago when she conducted an on-stage interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW and asked a lot of off-the-wall questions that the tech-heavy audience thought was disrespectful and irrelevant. They were posting their thoughts from the auditorium on...
Following up on the BNET1 post, CEO Candor on Steep Decline: The post reports on the decline in trustworthiness of CEOs as measured by their perceived candor in the letters to shareholders that accompany annual reports. The study, by Rittenhouse Rankings, says that more and more CEOs...
Beneath all the hype about Web 2.0, a real revolution is taking place. Watch this 60-minute Cisco TechWiseTV video Webcast that reveals how wikis, blogs, social networking, and other Web 2.0 applications are creating a "mass collaboration" paradigm. Learn how you can apply this model to solve business challenges and...
Harvard Business Review Editor Thomas A. Stewart has a thought-provoking list for you to contemplate, and its title doesn't lack for confidence: 9 Sure Bets For The Future. To give you a flavor, here are three of the nine trends Stewart thinks are sure enough for you...
In the real world, managing your reputation should be paramount. Showing up on time, being helpful to colleagues, and taking the occasional shower increase the reputation points you can leverage in any number of ways, including career advancement. Many of us spend a lot of time, if...
Web users generate two kinds of information, explicit and implicit. Explicit is what you set out to create: blog posts, tags, wikis. But it's the information you create without thinking as you make your way across the Web that may be far more important in the long...
Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed on stage at the SXSWi conference by former BusinessWeek journalist and author Sarah Lacy. It didn't go well -- Lacy, who can be a bit of a smarty pants, was channeling her inner David Letterman, asking off-the-wall questions, interrupting Zuckerberg...
Don't just sell to them—learn from them! Crowdsourcing is the new way to turn your most passionate customers into a powerful talent resource.Crowdsourcing is the practice of tapping members of the general public to perform important business tasks such as research, product development, and marketing. With the advent of Web-based...
Don't let the hype discourage you. Simple, easy to use, and — bonus! — much cheaper than traditional software, Web 2.0 tools can help your business thrive.What's all the hype about Web 2.0, and why should you care? We're glad you asked. To begin, you can read our BNET Briefing...
The Internet is the ultimate disruptive technology. Like telephony, radio, television, and even the printing press, the Internet is dramatically changing nearly every aspect of daily life, both inside businesses and in the daily lives of individuals. Much of this disruption has been both unplanned and unexpected, and nothing more...
As the world becomes more and more connected, you're going to need to begin investing in new media. And looking for a new media guru is worlds different than finding an accountant or a sales representative, for example. It seems that the foam rising to the top is comprised of...
Shop.org's Strategy & Information Forum is going on this week in Orlando. The theme this year: Web 2.0 and it's implications for retailing. Neil Clemmons from the Experience Matters blog is attending and picked up a simple but powerful insight from keynote speaker, Andy Sernovitz, one of the founders of...
Consumer review site Rate It All explains the Long Tail is getting longer, making it increasingly important to deliver your Web service to consumers where they are. Enter widgets. Newsweek predicted 2007 would be the year of the widget, and they certainly garnered a lot of attention with over 87 million people using 239 million widgets during...
Wikis, blogs, social networking - there are seemingly 101 ways for employees to find information, collaborate and execute work. But what can organizations do to establish processes to fully leverage the benefits of Web 2.0-enabled technology on a consistent basis? Unfortunately, most companies struggle not only when assessing employee performance...
Transitions aren't always hard. Marc Sternberg, President and COO of AlwaysOn found a new niche driven by an innovative marketplace. Television and print have been forced to make way for new media, and this former Hollywood Reporter executive has not only adapted, but has helped grow AlwaysOn, an insiders'...
