Archive for 'Social Media/Web 2.0' Category

How Social Media Will Disrupt B2B

Early this year, I landed a great consulting gig through social media. When the engagement recently ended, I couldn’t help but think if I could strike a deal ad hoc just through an online posting, imagine the impact social media could have on my business if I applied a little knowledge, direction and intent. So [Read More...]

Cool Tools: Web 2.0 Collaboration Technology

Earlier I wrote about an investigation Interim Technical  Management is conducting into collaborative software development tools, a marriage of Web 2.0 and software development lifecycle management. Specifically, it’s a portal platform with: collaboration spaces like wikis; communication via forums, blogs and notifications; identity tools for managing subscriptions, permissions and searching for others with particular areas [Read More...]

Social Collaboration and Disruption

I guess I never really considered that human evolution was something that I would notice within a lifetime, but working with several really sharp 20- and 30-somethings has opened my eyes. Five and ten years into their careers, they have insights about how to leverage technology that took us Boomers decades to figure out. They [Read More...]

Web 2.0 Collaborative Software Development Tools

I’m diving deep into social collaboration tools for enterprise software development these days.  Early adopters are quite positive about their new-found productivity gains, but the word ”social” makes it difficult for many companies to consider it a serious work horse. But imagine for a moment a suite of web-based software development tools that integrates more traditional software configuration management, defect tracking, knowledge base, and build and [Read More...]