The Insight Exchange’s Creating Value With Content event on Tuesday was a fantastic success. As so many of the attendees observed, this topic is at the heart of many businesses today. While content in the broadest sense is more and more central to the economy, there are many challenges, not least with pricing and distribution, […]
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. See the Future of Influence Summit blog for the full series. Earlier this year Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at HP’s Social Computing Lab did an […]
CMSWire has just published a nice review of my Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Report. Here is an excerpt from the review: Ross Dawson has written a report on Enterprise 2.0 that should be a valuable tool for any organization implementing or thinking about implementing Web 2.0 tools in their enterprise. Called Implementing Enterprise 2.0: A practical […]
Leading up to the Future of Influence Summit held on August 31/ September 1, we will release a ranked list of the Top 50 Most Influential Media Industry Journalists in the world. The list will analyzed and created using the platform of influence ratings startup Repyoot. However we need to provide a list of candidates […]
There has been a lot of talk lately that the VC model is broken – here is a small selection of what has been being said recently on the topic: Forbes: Venture Capital’s Coming Collapse EarlyStageVC: Traditional Venture Capital Sure Seems Broken – It’s About Time VentureBeat: The VC model is broken Fred Wilson: Is […]
We continue our Influence research series, paving the way for in-depth insights and breaking new ground on the topic at Future of Influence Summit 2009 in San Francisco and Sydney. Duncan Watts is one of a handful of scientists instrumental in developing the study of networks as a key scientific discipline. He tells his story […]
While online technologies have transformed the media along many dimensions, one of the most important ways of understanding this is in how the news cycle has changed. In the old days news was broken on real-time channels such as radio and TV, reinforced and pushed out to a broader audience through newspapers, discussed again in […]
Twitter has just announced the first of a series of changes to how retweeting is incorporated into the Twitter platform, called Project Retweet. This is significant in how influencers make content popular, one of the key themes of the upcoming Future of Influence Summit. Retweeting (forwarding someone else’s tweet to all of your followers) has […]
Awesome! Tara Hunt, renowned author of The Whuffie Factor, will be doing the opening keynote at Future of Influence Summit in San Francisco. Below is the video where I first saw Tara in action, speaking at the Web 2.0 Conference in April 2009 about The Whuffie Factor: The 5 Keys for Maxing Social Capital and […]
How many Twitter followers do you have? One of the reasons Twitter is important is that it is introducing the concept of assessing people’s degree of influence. A person’s number of Twitter followers is increasingly being taken as a proxy for their influence. If the only thing you know about someone is that they have […]
