Entries by Ross Dawson

Logo competition for DataPortability.org: how to get the best

I love this kind of thinking. DataPortability.org, the extremely important web initiative I have written about before, needs a logo. Redhat claims that its existing logo is too similar to theirs. Chris Saad, the chair of DataPortability.org, has launched an open competition to design the new logo, with the winner determined by open voting on […]

Media coverage of Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum

We’ve already had a fair bit of media coverage for Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Some of the media coverage includes: Janssen-Cilag dances Enterprise 2.0 jig (Computerworld) “Pharmaceutical giant Janssen-Cilag has overhauled its enterprise applications to introduce collaboration with a wiki that integrates IT asset management and even micro-blogging.” Wikis may be working for Westpac (The […]

Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum at full capacity

After a flurry of last-minute registrations, the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, which is on tomorrow, is now chocka-block, with no more space available in the room. This keeps us at a 100% record for our events selling out (i.e. our Future of Media Summits and Web 2.0 in Australia ). Given that other events on […]

Do social network technologies make us better or worse off as a society?

The Freakonomics blog, which is now part of the New York Times online, asks the following question of six prominent academics and participants in the space: Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? The responses to […]

Enterprise 2.0 will bring radical change in organisations

A very good article in Voice and Data magazine titled Enterprise 2.0 will bring radical change in organisations covers some of the truly important issues on the topic, going beyond narrow views of the technologies to how these new approaches will change organisations. It quotes Steve Hodgkinson of Ovum extensively, including some of these nuggets: […]