Entries by Ross Dawson

Catch-up with Peter Williams of Deloitte Digital – the intersection of digital and professional services

I had a very interesting meeting yesterday with Deloitte Digital‘s CEO Peter Williams, someone who is always on the vanguard of innovation in professional services. A few things he mentioned about what they’re up to: * Yammer (enterprise micro-blogging) has taken off and is getting substantial use across Deloitte Australia. They did a security test […]

I look forward to it: Finding any information in the universe just by thinking about it

This interview segment on Techcrunch quotes Google CEO Eric Schmidt as saying on the future of search: “Connect it straight to your brain”. Indeed. Search is about finding meaningful information. If just by thinking about what we wanted to find, we could find that information or content among all the information in the Universe, that […]

Measuring influence on Twitter: the state of the art progresses step by step

Influence is the topic of the moment (as well as the next decade). In the wake of our very successful Future of Influence Summit earlier this week, not one but two significant studies of influence on Twitter were released today. An extensive study titled The Influentials: New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter, created measures […]

The quality of the audience is the heart of Future of Influence Summit

Throughout all our events, including among others Future of Media Summit, Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, and now Future of Influence Summit, our intention has been to have top-level participants who are themselves creating the future, and generating useful insights from interaction with their peers. This is not supposed to be about the audience coming to […]