Entries by Ross Dawson

Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum #1 on Twitter today

Back from a fabulous day at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. I don’t have time for a full debrief now as I have to finish preparing for my keynote at theNational Growth Summit tomorrow. Certainly a highlight of today was the Twitter activity at the conference, with by some measures the event reaching #1 on Twitter […]

Melbourne: Enterprise 2.0 Executive Briefing on 5 March on transforming organizations with web and mobile technologies

To complement our one-day Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney on 24 February, Future Exploration Network and Optus Business are running an Enterprise 2. 0 Executive Briefing over lunch in Melbourne on 5 March. The Melbourne event is certainly no substitute for the in-depth content, workshops, and insights that will be available for the full […]

Why traditional conferences are dying and how unconferences and audience participation are the future of events

For many, many years I have felt that the vast majority of conferences were very poorly run, continuing to apply ancient, didactic approaches. That’s one of the reasons that a few years ago I started running events, organizing the Future of Media Summit, which annually links Sydney and San Francisco, the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum […]

New speaker announcements: Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum – David Backley, Peta Hopkins, Annalie Killian, Peter Williams, Chris Yates and more…

The Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is coming together extremely well. It is fantastic to see that while other sectors of the economy are struggling, organizations recognize that they must engage with the critical issue of transforming how they work using web and mobile technologies. We have confirmed a number of fantastic speakers at the event […]

Enterprise 2.0: Competitive differentiation occurs at the intersection of technology and culture

Recently I have been immersing myself in the Enterprise 2.0 space, organizing the second annual Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum which is on in two weeks now, writing the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Report which will be launched at the same time (slightly afterwards for the international market), and helping a variety of large organizations to drive […]

Podcast interview: The emergence of the Wide Open Web and social network strategy in the enterprise

In the lead-up to the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, a podcast interview with me has just been launched on Stan Relihan’s Connections Show, which is one of the top rated business podcasts in the world. Next up on the show after me is Vint Cerf, the ‘father of the internet’, so that will definitely be […]

Why JP Rangaswami is arguably the world’s leading Enterprise 2.0 practitioner

We are very excited to have JP Rangaswami doing the keynote at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum (by video from UK). For those who haven’t come across JP’s work – you should have! For the inaugural Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum last year, our international keynotes were Andrew McAfee, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the […]