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Archives for May, 2009


Search is a Waste of Time

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  May 28, 2009  |  10 Comments

Let’s face it, searching is mostly a waste of time. I don’t like searching the house for my keys, I don’t like searching my closet for the right shirt, and I don’t like searching my systems (or the Web) for information. All of these are a waste of my time. Let’s examine information search. So [...]

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You Can’t Build a Business Case for Social Software

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  May 26, 2009  |  21 Comments

Late last week I had a conversation with a client who was asking for a standard set of value or ROI metrics for social software. The client asked me to address this blog post in particular. At its foundation, the request was asking for a “standard” business case for social software investments. Building a business [...]

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What Do You Call The Purposeful Use of a Wiki?

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  May 14, 2009  |  7 Comments

This sounds like the opening of a joke so I apologize to those who are reading this expecting a laugh or two This is actually your chance to help out an analyst, namely, me. In my recent research on business relevant use cases for social software I have assembled a set of general use case [...]

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Your Web Site Strategy is Destined to Fail

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  May 12, 2009  |  5 Comments

Your Web site strategy, even if it is the best out there, is destined to fail. Why? Because it is a small portion of the effort and it is becoming more and more dependent on the bigger picture. Web site has been trumped by Web presence. Web presence is a combination of Web destinations, Web [...]

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