Archives for July, 2009
by Anthony J. Bradley | July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just got a heads up from Microsoft’s PR firm that, as of August 24, Microsoft is discontinuing the Popfly consumer mashup environment. “All sites, references, and resources including games and mashups that have been created will be taken down.” They say look to http://www.microsoft.com/mashups for more information. Right now I can’t find anything about [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Anthony J. Bradley | July 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
Why is this? What do we care more about than our health or the health of our loved ones? I have talked to our healthcare clients about sites like www.patientslikeme.com and www.rateadrug.com for a while now with a statement following that “this is only the beginning”. According to www.compete.com patientslikeme has about 100k unique visitors [...]
Category: Social Web Tags: health care, Social Web
by Anthony J. Bradley | July 6, 2009 | Comments Off
In February I posted on a new research project to accumulate social software implementation case stories. I have currently collected 175 case stories [a big thank you to all the user enterprises and vendors who have helped me in this endeavor]. I am not talking about surveys. I have examined (interviewed, captured, evaluated) each of [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Anthony J. Bradley | July 1, 2009 | 11 Comments
Today I reviewed a client’s draft social solution strategy document. It was comprehensive and well researched with several references from analyst firms, media outlets, and academics. Unfortunately, some of the analysis and advice in the references is, well, just bad (in my experience, of course). Also, in doing my daily Web scan of what’s going [...]
Category: social applications social solutions Tags: best practices, social solutions