by French Caldwell | January 30, 2013 | Comments Off
I’m on the road this week — first Boston for client visits and then PwC’s industry analyst summit, and now New York for a day at the LegalTech conference. What struck me most with PwC is how they were talking SMAC — the convergence of social, mobile, analytic and cloud technologies — what Gartner calls [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
I’ve read through new draft guidance from U.S. financial services regulators on the use of social media. What struck me most is that instead of taking a compliance and control point of view, it talks instead of risks, and the need to ensure that social media risks are included in your risk management program. That’s [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 23, 2013 | Comments Off
“I have seen war…. I hate war.” Whenever I see this FDR quote at his memorial in DC, I unwillingly substitute the word ‘e-mail’ for ‘war.’ I have seen e-mail. It’s blunt force and unwieldy – it turns brilliant discourse into foggy stew. It’s the default when your processes don’t work. It’s a panacea for [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
I expect to hear a lot of stories about social technology keeping people connected in the aftermath of Sandy — just as after Katrina. However, I am also expecting these stories to take a twist — we will hear about how neighbors organized self-relief efforts using social media. Social media has been playing a part [...]
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