Susan Scrupski, one of the brightest (and nicest) people I’ve met in my Enterprise Web 2.0 adventures, recently became Chief of Applied Research at Austin-based BSG Alliance, which bills itself as “as the total platform – from a strategic advisory, business process support, and technology design & deployment perspective – for Next Generation Enterprises, On Demand.”  
She and Nick Vitalardi had […]

You knew it was only a matter of time.  Techrigy Inc., a Rochester, New York startup, has launched a new “social media compliance product” called SM2 that scans through a company’s intranet servers to find social media, likes blogs, running internally, as well as the internet externally to find employees talking about the company from their blogs or […]

While doing a little research on blogging platforms this morning, I was startled to be reminded that WordPress, which is far and away best of breed IMHO and feels like it has been around forever, has been in open circulation for less than two years now.  The Blogger folks started in 1999, Ben and Mena […]

As regular readers of this blog (I’m planning to write both of you a thank you note soon) may have noticed, I haven’t been writing a lot lately.  This is partly due to having been busy on some other projects, like playing traffic cop at Social Media Today, but mostly it’s from frustration at losing a […]

Brian Oberkirch and I had an ugly dustup yesterday over his having used Social Media Today, a web site I facilitate that pulls together–with the permission of the individual bloggers–material from 40 or so of the best social media blogs, to illustrate a post called Should You Get a Say in How Your Posts Are Used? 
Although the post didn’t say so explicitly […]

The debate about whether the punishment truly fits in the crime in the case of a now former shock jock who has raised more than $100 million for childrens charities and the subsidiary argument about exactly who gets to sit in judgement on whom is likely to go on for awhile but there is certainly one thing we […]

Like your mommy told you you should be careful of what you wish for because you just might get it.  For months now, I have submitted posts from various blogs where I pontificate to Digg where they have consistently failed to amuse the wise crowd in any statistically meaningful way.  The most Diggs I’ve ever […]

On the face of it the Blogging Code of Conduct proposed by web elder Tim O’Reilly is one of those little Miss Sunshine ideas that seems so sensible and necessary that it defies easy disagreement.   It’s like being opposed to, say, the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.”  What […]

Back on July 30 I posted a piece called 5 Good Reasons Not All CEOs Should Blog.  Thanks to Jason Goldberg of Jobster, the online recruiting site, I now have a sixth good reason:  You might be exposed as the baldfaced liar that you really are.
When rumors started flying last month that Jobster was in trouble and layoffs were imminent, Goldberg […]

Oops, you did it again.  I’m not talking about sending snazzy new laptops loaded with Vista to certain influential bloggers.  Except for the fact that you didn’t send me one, that was a great idea.  Bloggers don’t have some ancient ethical code about accepting gifts like real journalists do.  Most of us can be bought […]