by Jeffrey Mann | August 16, 2012 | 3 Comments
Friend or Foe?” cries the clichéd sentinel on a foggy castle keep. With email, it seems no one knows how to answer that question. Without email, I could not live the way I choose to or do my work the way I like to do. Unquestionably, email has made my life better. But like most [...]
Category: email Hype Cycle Personal social media social software Tags: no email, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | January 1, 2012 | Submit a Comment
For the last several years, I have done blog posts on what I call my anti-resolutions for the year. Many bloggers publish their predictions and highlights around this time of year. So I won’t. If lots of people do something, that usually is a good enough reason for me not do it. My resolutions are [...]
Category: anti-resolutions being an analyst social media social software Tags: anti-resolutions, new year, SV bubble
by Jeffrey Mann | November 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
Gartner’s big European event starts next week in Barcelona, a welcome change from Cannes, in my own opinion. Social is inevitably a hot topic, and I look forward to speaking with many customers over the four days of the conference. I will be doing two workshops (defining a social media strategy, and creating a SharePoint [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration europe Events social media social software symposium Tags: #gartnersym, Barcelona, social, social media, social software, symposium
by Jeffrey Mann | November 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
My colleague Anthony Bradley has been courting controversy with his comments on social media vs. knowledge management on his blog. OK, I’ll bite. I disagree, I disagree, but not so much on the substance of his comments. Anthony’s characterization of what some knowledge management (KM) projects look like, and what social media (SM) efforts [...]
Category: knowledge management social media social software Tags: analysts, Anthony Bradley, KM, knowledge management, social media
by Jeffrey Mann | March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments
I am not usually all that into gadgets, and I have never understood the manic devotion to all things Apple that some normally rational people display. I don’t have an iPhone (I tried, but that’s a long, not very interesting story) and am very happy with my Blackberry Torch. I get a secret satisfaction out [...]
Category: Apple Personal RIM social media Tags: fanboys, ipad, tablets
by Jeffrey Mann | January 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
Social media policies are proving to be a minefield for companies and individuals learning to navigate the shoals of what is permissible, desirable or merely awkward. Digital channels multiply the opportunities for potential cIashes between what we think we are doing or saying as private individuals, and the reasonable interests of our employers or other [...]
Category: IT Governance Personal policy privacy social media Tags: common sense, compliance, social media policy, wine
by Jeffrey Mann | January 5, 2011 | 2 Comments
As social software becomes more popular and widely-adopted, it seems like everything is getting a social component. I recently tweeted some musings about what could be the next big social thing. My colleague Andy added a few more. I thought I would use this longer format to add some possibilities of what these Next Big [...]
Category: humor social media social software Tags: #thenextsocial, humor, social media, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | January 1, 2011 | 5 Comments
For the last two years, I have done blog posts on what I call my anti-resolutions for the year. Many bloggers publish their predictions, personal resolutions and highlights around the end of the year. So I won’t. If lots of people do something, that usually is a good enough reason for me not do it. [...]
Category: anti-resolutions blogging humor microblogging Personal predictions social media social software Tags: anti-resolutions, blogging, happy new year, humor, ipad, microblogging, twitter
by Jeffrey Mann | December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Wikileaks organization has been in the news a great deal the past couple weeks with its large scale disclosure of internal communications from the US State Department, and promises to release reportedly explosive internal discussions from banks at a later date. I have held off commenting for awhile to see how the issue played [...]
Category: compliance Facebook privacy security social media social software Tags: Facebook, Julian Assange, Mark Zuckerberg, person of the year, TIME, wikileaks
by Jeffrey Mann | November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Symposium is usually an intense experience, and this year was no different. This year 3300 attended the event, a 21% increase over last year. It was the biggest EMEA Symposium in the last ten years. Close to 100 analysts did 200 presentations, almost 2200 1on1 meetings, and about 40 user roundtables. Personally, I did 26 [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration consumerization europe Events social media social software Strategic Planning symposium Tags: conservative organizations, EMEA, social software, symposium. #gartnersym, Type C
