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- A moment of lucidity
- It is not often I agree with social media people. Most of the time I find they're full of it and return pointed questions with dopey answers. Today is an exception. Shel Israel, one of the earliest and most prolific arm wavers for all thing social has finally 'fessed up...
- Tags: Sustainability, Scalability, Social Media, ROI, Shel, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Naked IT: Shel Israel on social media and IT (includes podcast)
- Naked IT: Shel Israel on social media and IT includes podcastDeja Vu all over againYou said: "Many IT departments have already discovered users adopting social media tools, perhaps bypassing corporate policies in the process."Were you around when PCs were first being introduced to organizations through the back and side doors...
- Tags: Podcasts, Shel, IT Organizations, social media, podcast, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Naked IT: Shel Israel on social media and IT (includes podcast)
- The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and read this blog post for additional analysis not included in the recording. In this segment, we talk with Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble...
- Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, Social Media, Enterprise, Shel, IT Guy, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Shel refocuses Global Neighbourhoods
- I got to spend quite a bit of time with Shel Israel at DEMO 07 which is always a treat for me. Hes so animated and tells such great stories. Since the publication (and well-deserved success) of Naked Conversations, a project I participated in briefly, Shel has been scratching out...
- Tags: Mobility, Naked Conversations, Productivity, Shel
- Blog posts 2007-02-04
Additional Resources
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- SAP's TV budget: more waste
- Regular readers will know that I'm pretty hard on enterprise vendors, especially when I believe they are wasting customers' money. Last month for instance I dinged Oracle for wasting money on English language advertising at Madrid Barajas airport. This morning SAP gets my attention. They are sponsoring...
- Tags: SAP AG, TV, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Who's behind 1938 Media?
- CNET News.com Editor In Chief Dan Farber talks with Loren Feldman, the founder and president of 1938 Media. They discuss the creation of the video production company, which is gaining notoriety, in part because of Feldman's crazy "Shel Israel" puppet.
- Tags: Notoriety, Media, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, News, dan farber, loren feldman, 1938 media, video, youtube, online media, shell israel
- Videos 2008-05-29
- IT failures and social media
- Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble of the influential book on blogging, Naked Conversations, recently interviewed me regarding social media and IT failures. I used the interview to consolidate my views on several IT failure-related issues. Here's a summary of the interview; the topics are Shel's, but...
- Tags: Information Technology, Social Media, Failure, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- News to know: OLPC the soap opera; Vista SP1; Macs; CES
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases another Vista SP1 refresh to 15,000 testers Ed Bott: Microsoft extends the reach of Media Center David Morgenstern: Will virtualization be king at Macworld Expo? Robin Harris: ZFS beta now on Mac OS X...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Rest in Peace Marc Orchant
- It's with great sadness that I tell you that Marc Orchant, part of the ZDNet family, passed away following a massive heart attack a week ago. He died way too young and our thoughts are with his family. Marc's colleague Oliver Starr, who has...
- Tags: Family, Marc, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- MTV and RealNetworks: A sound decision?
- MTV and RealNetworks: A sound decision?Yikes, RealNetworksAnytime I hear 'RealNetworks' it conjures up bad vibes like as if someone said Pinto.Seriously, I have never used RealPlayer where it didn't screw up a computer, make it run slow, or hook into it in so many places that it doesn't want to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, plot, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Microsoft Corp., MTV
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Microsoft builds 'Tafiti' Silverlight-based search app
- Microsoft has built a new search application based on its Silverlight "Flash killer" technology.That application, code-named "Tafiti" (which is Swahili for "do research" or "to search" -- I've seen both explanations) is a mash-up of Live Search (including its subcategories, like books. blogs, news, images) and Silverlight. The app also...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Build ERP on social media: not a joke
- Shel Israel is undertaking a research project for SAP:I am trying to answer a single, overwhelming question: "What is going on in the world with regard to social media? ...Mostly I am looking for real people with stories and personal experience about what is happening with blogging, video, online communities...
- Tags: ERP, Enterprise applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks
- Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacksUhh duh!Um, isn't this a well known weakness, not in the software, but the WPAD draft? Hardly anything new here. It'll also happen if hackers gain access to your DHCP server...If someone owns your WINS or DNS, WPAD is the least...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Domain names, Microsoft Windows, network, WPAD, WINS, Microsoft Corp., DNS, Mike Cox
- Discussion threads 2007-03-25
- Best business and technology books of 2006
- Last week, I reported what retailers were saying about what the hot gifts this year, as well as some ideas of my own. Giving the gift of a good read is a great option for family and friends, but particularly for colleagues who you have to think with every day.The...
- Tags: marketing, Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-03
- Microsoft lawsuits reeling in alleged phishers
- Microsoft lawsuits reeling in alleged phishersMicrosoft lawsuits reeling in alleged phishersThis is one of the many reasons I like Microsoft. Because they are cutting down on crime and trying to make the world and internet a better place. All companies should really be participating in getting phishers off...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Corp., phishing, lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- Golden age of PR?
- “We’re about to enter the golden age of PR,” Steve Rubel, senior vice president at Edelman, the “largest independent global PR firm,” aka Micro Persuasion, believes, as I cite in “Is PR the antidote to click fraud?” Rubel at his blog recently in reaction to a Business Week story...
- Tags: Edelman, public relations
- Blog posts 2006-10-15
- Office 2.0: Where are we at and please get off my network
- Om Malik GigaOm, Rajen Sheth Google, Mark Suster Koral, Shel Israel Naked Conversations, Karen Leavitt WebEx, Ismael Ghalimi (Intalio, Office 2.0 conference host)During a panel titled "Office 2.0: Where Are We," the panelists above gave their assessments on the state of 2.0. My favorite quote was from Shel Israel: ...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Microsoft appeals EU fine
- Microsoft appeals EU fineWoooiiii, another round of bad publicity for MS, all because they were tostooooooopid to just abide by the ruling and allocate the resources necessary.These guys are brilliant.Tit for tatThe [b]Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act[/b], which not surprisingly is another attempt at prohibition. The effect of the...
- Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
- MessagingPeople SDK (exe)
- messagingPeople SDL allows developers to add messaging capabilities to software / Web projects. Send SMS, WAP, MMS and Voice messages and Faxes from your development projects. Sample source code and documentation provided for all OS (UNIX, Linux, Mac, Windows etc), all development environments (COM, HTML, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#.NET, C/C++/C++.NET,...
- Tags: PHP, JSP, Messaging, messagingPeople SDL, Scripting Languages, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Java, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Development Tools, Software Development
- Software downloads 2006-09-20
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