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eBusiness & Web 2.0

What is Curation?

I started out thinking I would write a post questioning the evolving definition (and dilution) of the word “curation”, but ended up wondering if it is I who has been operating under the wrong definition all along. I’ve always thought of curation as a great notion. In today’s media-soaked environment, regardless of what your interests are, there are simply too many stories, blog posts and videos generated every day to possibly visit, and we all get the sense that we [...]

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Choosing The Right Social Media Icons

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Can Web Business Really Be Frictionless?

In the discussion of eBusiness / eCommerce / Web 2.0 companies you will frequently hear the word ‘friction’ being used, and it’s always something to be avoided. Friction is anything that will slow you down as you scale up your business model and increase revenues, from the movement of physical bits across the country, to a dependency on another firm in the middle of a transaction, to that most friction-full of items, pesky human staff. If one could only find [...]

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A Contrarian View of Twitter Etiquette

Twitter has been around long enough that its users have generated a substantial body of conventional wisdom on the topic of Twitter etiquette. In fact, a Google search shows that there may be as many as two links to Twitter etiquette content for every actual Twitter member (nine million etiquette links for its four million users). An embarrassment of riches to be sure. Yet within this wealth of good ideas lurks a tendency toward a parochial tone that, at least [...]

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Being the Adult in the Room for Social Media Initiatives

The Social Media hype cycle seems to have leveled off a bit over last few months, and we are seeing more examples of large organizations using these new tools and sharing their successes and lessons learned. The promise of social media for business includes real-time customer feedback, trend identification, additional brand loyalty, and a richer relationship with customers. A small sampling of recent examples include: A passenger on Virgin America doesn’t get his meal, tweets about it, and the airline is [...]

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The Need For Innovation In Corporate Web Site Search

As IT leaders we often see opportunities for innovation in the technology assets developed and managed within our organizations. Such is the case for the following proposition around corporate web site search, which may be relevant considering the recent introductions of Bing, WolframAlpha and the word “semantic” back in the news again. The magnitude of the Internet’s success is now matched by user frustration in sifting through endless unstructured web sites and billions of web pages for immediately relevant information. [...]

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IT Leaders Need a Presence on the Web

Whether you are firmly established in your corporate IT leadership position, in transition between opportunities or seeking business as a independent consultant, it may soon be an expectation that you have some kind of “footprint” on the web, be it original content, presentations, or searchable commentary for your area of expertise. It has become common practice to search for, and expect to see “extra curricular” web content and activities for IT developers/architects that are applying for positions (contribution to open [...]

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