Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking – Twitter For Business

Yesterday evening, my time, I attended a rather interesting webcast with Sandy Carter, IBM’s Worldwide Sales Vice President, IBM Social Business, Collaboration, and Lotus Sales and Evangelism, along with Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst at Altimeter Group, on the topic of Why Be Social?. It surely was quite an interesting event and, if you would be … Continue reading Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking – Twitter For Business

IBM’s Lotusphere 2011 Highlights – Get Social, Do Business!

Another week on the road has just gone by without me hardly ever noticing it, as I was doing some more business travelling to both Madrid and Barcelona, meeting up with customers to talk further on around the subject of Social Computing and Social Software Adoption. Then a day or two to catch up with the … Continue reading IBM’s Lotusphere 2011 Highlights – Get Social, Do Business!

Taking Notes Episode 126: Introducing Social Business with Luis Suarez

Over the last couple of months I have been participating on a number of different podcasting episodes, (Internet) TV interviews, news articles and a whole bunch of other kinds of rich media publications talking, most of the time, around the topics of Enterprise 2.0, internal social software adoption and 2.0 evangelism, and, lately, the new … Continue reading Taking Notes Episode 126: Introducing Social Business with Luis Suarez

Enterprise 2.0: Two Success Stories on Connecting People with People to Make a Difference!

If you remember, a couple of months back, I briefly talked about a recent business trip that I did to Germany to come and visit a customer for a couple of days where we would have a bunch of events, and plenty more conversations, to talk about Enterprise 2.0, Social Software Adoption, online Communities and … Continue reading Enterprise 2.0: Two Success Stories on Connecting People with People to Make a Difference!

Don’t Start with the Tools: They Are Not Your Final Destination

“Don’t start with the tools. A fool with a tool is still a fool” is the last sentence, and powerful conclusion, from a recent short, but rather thought-provoking, blog post that my good friend, Oscar Berg, shared, not long ago, under the heading “Don’t start with the tools“. In case you haven’t read it just yet, I … Continue reading Don’t Start with the Tools: They Are Not Your Final Destination