File this one under self-serving if you like, but I feel a little like a proud new parent.  SMTodaymedia (which is basically me and Robin Carey and a virtual cast of thousands) has just launched a new social community called the Cleantech Collective.  It’s similar in concept to our Social Media Today community in that it brings […]

For the past year and a half or so Connectbeam has been wandering in the wilderness telling anyone who will listen that social bookmarking was not simply popular applications like del.icio.us or Furl that allow web addicts to mark and share their favorite links online but an enterprise tool with real potential to help companies […]

If you want an idea of what’s ailing America these days, shuffle over to Digg and check out the top posts for the past 24 hours.  Top of the pile as I write this is a little self-reverential ditty called “Digg.com “Site Down” Feature Suggestion (for Digged-Out Sites” which has garnered 3394 gestures of affection from […]

Keith Patterson is the CEO and visionary behind Itensil, Inc., a web 2.0 software firm that develops web 2.0 user interface technology and provides a hosted service called Itensil Team Activity Manager.  The product features a unique wiki + workflow integration that enables teams to turn collaborative ideas into reusable workflows.  Patterson bootstrapped Itensil from […]

Charles Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive of Trampoline Systems, which bills itself as “Enterprise Software That Harnesses Social Behaviour,” is an ethnographer by trade and the study of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork, lies at the heart of Trampoline’s applications.  
In 1999, Armstrong became frustrated with the ”dysfunctional” nature of corporate systems and decided to see if […]

Traditional read-only intranets are the Siberia of corporations.  Nobody goes there unless they have to.  Companies tend to view them as a place to park their personnel manuals, an internal phonebook, maybe some press releases, company calendar, and HR notices.  In organizations where they are the default home page, employees often see them as an annoying and unnecessary […]

Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifying which of the external voices are most influential and are having the most impact–positively or negatively–and then devising a strategy and specific tactics to influence the influencers. 
None of the existing tools for performing these tasks has proven adequate to the challenge of social media […]

Nicholas Carr is a provocative blogger and professional writer who irritates an awful lot of people in the technology business.  Maybe it’s because he is a skeptic in an industry that attracts Kool-Aid drinkers in Jonestownian proportions.  Or, it could be the “I was executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and you weren’t” whiff of eastern elitism […]

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence was officially launched today with a modest amount of speechifying and the announcement of an intriguing new experiment to create a Wikipedia-style community-authored book about how to use communities in business.
Called We Are Smarter Than Me, the book/project’s home is an online community and wiki managed by Shared Insights where  business professionals are encouraged […]

Talk about an idea whose time has come.  MIT will officially launch on Friday the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), a new research center whose goal to understand how to harness the power of large numbers of people—connected together through Internet and other technologies —to better solve a range of business, scientific, and societal […]