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Sex, geeks and Blackbox Republic

The first time you meet Sam Lawrence, ex-CMO of Jive Software you just know he's a specially talented marketing person. He's a creative which for geeks should be an immediate affinity thing. Today, he, along with co-founder April Donato came out of stealth mode with Blackbox...

Tags: Community, Oliver, Collaboration, Groupware, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Let's Focus on Business Value

Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Let's Focus on Business ValueIn the FlowOliver makes a great point about the need to get users to adopt collaborative E2 tools as a primary part of their workflow. I think, however, the solution lies more with tool improvement than in changing user behaviors. Email...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Collaboration, Groupware, tool, Business Value, Enterprise 2.0, e-mail, Oliver

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Jive talking: Easy to underestimate effort required to get people engaged

Jive talking: Easy to underestimate effort required to get people engagedCulture change is the hardest partOliver says "...but the reality for all ?social community? roll outs is that the software is a relatively minor component compared to the change management required to drive uptake and usage and to weave the...

Tags: Change management, Leadership, Collaboration, Oliver

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly

Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I’ve had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...

Tags: Password, Apple Inc., Oliver, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Our thoughts are with Marc Orchant

Marc Orchant, who until recently blogged on ZDNet's network, had a heart attack on Sunday, according to his co-author at Blognation USA. Oliver Starr writes: At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this...

Tags: Oliver, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-03

AOL demonstrates why cookies are evil

AOL demonstrates why cookies are evilEscape this junk permanentlyI use blackboxsearch its a free search proxy and you wont have to deal with this crap anymore.http://www.blackboxsearch.comRe: AOL demonstrates why cookies are evilYou mean some suggest we [i]don't[/i] have a right to block or remove cookies?By the way, ZDNet is as...

Tags: cookie, America Online Inc., Oliver, Bye

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Additional Resources

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Strategy-Driven Execution can pave a path to proving E20 value propositionHi Oliver,I made a very serious attempt to bridge the perspectives in my blog post entitled "Is Enterprise 2.0 a Savior or a Charlatan? How Strategy-Driven Execution can pave the path to proving legitimate business performance" located here: http://bit.ly/3n325o ....

Tags: Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Andrew McAfee & Enterprise 2.0 conference

A very busy week in San Francisco at the inaugural West coast Enterprise 2.0 conference, which has proved very successful so far. I'll write a longer post after the conclusion Thursday, but for now here's a brief video discussion between myself and Andrew...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-04

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-28

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

John Hagel on Real Time, Social & Mobile Web

3 short video clips full of insight from John Hagel Real Time Web: Exception Handling Social Web: Tacit Knowledge Mobile Web: Early stages of value propositions in integrating physical and virtual worlds ...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-27

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

The Future is SaaSGreat article Oliver, thank you. With the rapid growth of the SaaS market, combined with consumer's desire for choice, I see the future of applications, both for consumers and business, being SaaS. Ultimately, a customer will be able to pick and choose which applications work best for...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2009-10-23