by Anthony J. Bradley | October 31, 2008 | Comments Off
My very last post was on Twitter as a potential tool for mass coordination in responding to a constantly changing environment. Well I left out the sense side of he sense and respond loop. The Army intelligence community has an interesting saying, “Every Soldier a sensor.” This pretty obviously refers to human intelligence and that every soldier [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: Sense and respond
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
This very interesting Wired article Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists on an Army 304th Military Intelligence Battalion report found on the Federation of the American Scientists website caught my attention. What interests me about this, which is not directly addressed, is the use of Twitter (or microblogging in general) for coordinating mass actions. I have recently begun researching [...]
Category: social applications Tags: Sense and respond
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 31, 2008 | Comments Off
It is amazing that I still get questions asking if this SOA thing is more than hype or I still hear comments that SOA is dead or has run its course. Much to the contrary, on Gartner’s 2008 Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, SOA has crawled out of the Trough of Disillusionment and is headed for [...]
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Category: Gartner Conferences Tags: ADI Summit, SOA
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’m back. If you are wondering why my blog has been a little stale over the past week or so it is because after Fall Symposium in Orlando I took a week off and then this week I have been traveling. One of my travels was presenting on enterprise mashups at the The Council of [...]
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 30, 2008 | Comments Off
It occurs to me that I never even introduced myself (major blogging faux pas). Hello, I’m Anthony Bradley, Managing Vice President with Gartner. Managing Vice President means that, in addition to being an analyst, I manage a team of analysts. I manage the Applications Architecture team of analysts. We cover enterprise best practices on how [...]
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by Anthony J. Bradley | October 14, 2008 | Comments Off
I am impressed and encouraged with the amount of interaction and participation I’ve had recently (and here at Symposium) with the U.S. Army around social applications and mass collaboration. More and more I see the Army taking the lead in capitalizing on communities to execute on many aspects of their mission. Many senior Army leaders [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: best practices, defense, government, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments
Just after my presentation this morning on social applications (focusing on the customer experience), a person approached me with a question (several did but I’m going to blog on this one). He is tasked with exploring social applications to enhance the patient-doctor relationship at Johns Hopkins (widely recognized as a state of the art medical organization). After [...]
Category: social applications Tags: health care, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’m presenting at Gartner’s Fall Symposium Event in Orlando this week. I’ve got three presentations. The first on Monday morning in all about getting radical business value out of social software. Its focus is on best practices for designing and building high impact social applications vs. providing a social software tool and praying something good [...]
Category: Gartner Conferences Tags: Gartner Conferences
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 8, 2008 | 5 Comments
I had an interesting conversation today with David Karp of firstgiving.com a US based social fundraising community. firstgiving.com connects normal people who are fundraising (walk-a-thons, bike-a-thons, anything-a-thons) with their charities and those that would sponsor them. Firstgiving.com facilitates the logistics of some on-line marketing of your fundraising effort, signing up sponsors, and collecting money. Check it out. It’s easy. [...]
Category: social applications Tags: mass leverage, social software
by Anthony J. Bradley | October 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
This Mashable post on a blogger’s blog getting purchased for almost $15M reminds me of something I surfaced internally at Gartner almost a year ago. Social applications add a “join” to the buy vs. build decision and clients would ask me to enumerate the pros and cons of joining third party communities rather than trying to grow their own. [...]
Category: social applications Tags: social economy, social software
