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I believe the Internet is a transformative force that is changing all aspects of business.  Leveraging the power of the Internet is now a necessity and not a luxury for every size and type of business.

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    Wednesday
    Nov252009

    2.0 Adoption Council – ReadWriteEnterprise

    DateWednesday, November 25, 2009 at 11:23AM

    2.0adoption

    Nice mention and overview article by ReadWriteEnterprise on the 2.0 adoption council’s recent Enterprise 2.0 study.  As a member of the 2.0 Adoption Council and essentially these days working on “enterprise 2.0” adoption in my day job I thought I should mention the post and encourage anyone who has interest in Enterprise 2.0/Social Computing to check out the reports.

    Enterprise 2.0 from a technology standpoint is really fairly simple and is really about social collaboration features.  I agree with Chris Anderson in that “Social is the Feature not the Destination”.

    Most these features like commenting, micro-blogs, tagging, social bookmarking etc.  are not not technically complicated and given this these features will increasingly be adopted by standard “enterprise” software vendors first within collaboration and productivity tools and then into ERP type tools like CRM, HR.  This is already happening in many cases be the upcoming SharePoint 2010 or Salesforce.com chatter platform recent announcements.

    Anyhow, this notion of the feature not the destination is the “pickle” as I like to say for dedicated Enterprise 2.0 vendors.  Their feature set is pretty much already commoditized and easily duplicated by vendors who already have a foothold in most enterprises.  The vendors that will win will be the ones who differentiate via intelligent content filtering (filtering the noise to what is important) and/or be able to work as the glue that connects the ecosystem of features instead of requiring total adoption of one platform.

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    Monday
    Nov162009

    John Chambers - Cisco

    DateMonday, November 16, 2009 at 08:15AM

    For whatever reason I hadn’t seen this video of Cisco CEO John Chambers until last week.  I thought it was a good talk especially in regards on how to think about Enterprise 2.0 as a macro trend/market transition and the implications to the enterprise and business in general.

    I really liked how he discussed the strategic opportunity of enterprise 2.0. The idea of capitalizing on a trend and getting a market transition right to come out several years ahead of your competition which creates a  strategic advantage really resonated with me.  Anyhow, if you like management of technology, general leadership talks or enterprise 2.0 watch the video:

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    Thursday
    Nov122009

    Cloud Computing Video

    DateThursday, November 12, 2009 at 02:06PM

    CommonCraft the company that created the “Plain English” explanation videos for RSS and Wikis have finally come out with one for “Cloud Computing”. 

    Click on the picture below to view the video on their site and see how Lucy from Lucy Lilies uses cloud computing to help her business.

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    Check out their other videos here:
    ttp://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever

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    Thursday
    Nov122009

    Blog re-focus new momentum

    DateThursday, November 12, 2009 at 01:28PM

    For whatever reason yesterday I thought to myself I need to blog more… I don’t think I have many if any regular readers but just to recount the past couple of years.

    I started blogging in Oct 2007 did well for the rest of the year and some of 2008 then simply dropped off.  Anyhow, in my day-job/work I became and avid “internal” blogger within HP.  Plus, since this time we have been blessed with two beautiful children.  So needless to say, I have been busy in many ways. 

    So now with a renewed energy from somewhere I have decided to start blogging on this my personal blog again.  Hopefully, it will be somewhat consistent albeit the topics will mainly be about the “Internet” in one form or another be it consumer aspects, SMB, corporate enterprise to architecture, governance and management of technology.

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    Saturday
    Jun212008

    Can your customers give you a thumbs up ?

    DateSaturday, June 21, 2008 at 10:12AM

    thumbsup 

    ... or a thumbs down ? Does your Web Site let your customers rate and provide comments for your individual products ?

    One of the key capabilities of the Internet is the ability to interact with your current, past and future customers.  This post is going to cover how you can "Use The Machine" to add customer ratings or voting to your existing web site or blog.  This will allow your customers to very easily provide feedback for a specific product or service.

    imageThere is a great service called JS-Kit.com that provides not only ratings but also other functionality like user reviews, comments and polls.  They make it easy for anyone to add various user participation abilities on their web site.

    So before we get into the details let me quickly say, that it can often create anxiety for small (and large) business owners to expose their products/services to ratings and comments from customers.  Everyone is afraid of the disgruntled customers and the bad ratings/reviews.  However, the Internet has proven that the value to the business owner is in the transparency, that is being open with their perspective customers about the good and bad.  Often the bad provides you an opportunity to not only improve your product or service but also allows you to address the concern in a manner that shows you care about your customers and their feedback. This in the end is invaluable and will help you win over new customers.

    OK, on to Using The Machine...

    On JS-Kit.com simply copy and past the line of HTML code that is provided for the 
     

    <div class="js-kit-rating" starColor="Green" title="" permalink=""></div>
    <script src="http://js-kit.com/ratings.js"></script>

    That's it your done.. ;) well specifically for the ratings your done.. you need to modify the above HTML code some based on certain situations or if you want to customize how the ratings show up in your site. There is a list of all the potential customizations on the JS-Kit.com on the Customizing Page. That page shows you how to change the color, display the ratings in different ways and even handle problems like attaching the same rating to a product that might show up in multiple pages on your web site.

    I'm going to change my star color to Green.

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    So here is my rating control for the post, please leave me a rating just click on the stars.

    Please rate this Post:

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