Just one month after the birth of our beautiful daughter Phoebe, we are going on a week’s holiday in Fiji. Both Victoria and I have busy schedules coming up, so it’s a good time to get away, rest, and enjoy being a family together. Victoria did the bulk of the holiday searching, probably spending a […]
We’re getting a great response to our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report. We’ll get up a discussion space on the site soon. In the meantime I’d thought I’d share a brief excerpt from the book, in chapter 10 on Blogs in the enterprise. You can download four other chapters from the website, including our Social networking […]
Recent research suggests that ‘microevolution’ – that within species – happens faster in warmer climates – their DNA changes faster. This leads to the extraordinary tropical diversity of our planet. Susan Kraemer asks: what happens if the planet’s climate gets warmer? Will we all evolve faster? Which leads me to the bigger question: are we […]
I just discovered that an extended profile piece on me that appeared in Inside Knowledge magazine in October 2006 is now available online under the title The Knowledge: Ross Dawson. It is fascinating to me to read it a few years later and consider what has and hasn’t changed. It provides an extremely good overview […]
One of the most important applications of influence is in launching start-ups. This is often a make or break situation – you have a great opportunity to get attention (and on the back of that revenue) when you launch a new company. If it doesn’t work and you don’t get much attention at that point, […]
Citizen journalist site Allvoices.com has just moved out of beta. CNet provides a story of the site, its founder Amra Tareen, and Allvoices’ features including a map of the world showing where the latest stories are emerging. A Reuters story, Allvoices happy to pay popular posters, focuses on how the site pays contributors and its […]
Shall I tweet it? Shall I blog it? If you’re both a blogger and Twitterer, when you get an interesting thought you want to share, you have choices. Do you tweet it? If it’s interesting enough to let people know, then sure – very easily done. Or do you blog it? If it’s compelling enough, […]
Associated Press has just released a story titled Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century? which examines the role of Twitter in the news cycle. It examines the role Twitter played in the news of Michael Jackson’s death, in the Iranian election, and in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and goes on to quote […]
Twitterboard – a very interesting way of aggregating Twitter conversations on a website – launched in alpha yesterday. I’ve installed it on this blog to give it a try. You should see a tab on the left hand side of the page. When you click it this will bring up the Twitter thread. I’ll give […]
I send out an extremely irregular email to keep people posted on what’s up in my world and the most prominent content I’m creating. I thought I might as well post it on my blog as well… What’s happening in the living networks June 2009 This is a quite extraordinary year for me. It’s now […]
