Entries Categorized as 'social software'
by Jeffrey Mann | October 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Last week, I had the chance to do a quick tour around Europe with Ed Thompson talking to over 300 people about social media in London, Utrecht, Zurich, Milan, and Frankfurt. I talked about developing strategy, and Ed covered social CRM. While five cities in five days is a quick pace, it’s not out of [...]
Category: collaboration compliance europe Facebook privacy social media social software Strategic Planning symposium Tags: communities, Frankfurt, London, Milan, privacy, social media, social software, symposium, Utrecht, Zurich
by Jeffrey Mann | September 30, 2010 | 3 Comments
My last post got several interesting comments, which got got me thinking about what is creepy, and what to do about it. The uncomfortable feelings that some social software implementations create can be a major inhibitor of adoption, so understanding what My colleague Nick Jones offered a potential algorithm for determining levels of creepiness, but [...]
Category: compliance social media social software Uncategorized Tags: creepiness, creepy, social media, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | September 26, 2010 | 10 Comments
I’ve been thinking about “creepiness” over the last couple weeks. I’ve been finding the concept come up more and more as I speak with end users and vendors about social software, because it is becoming a real barrier to adoption as end users react with sometimes unexpected revulsion at what seems normal or trivial to [...]
Category: compliance email Google privacy social media social software technology Tags: creepiness, creepy, gcreep, Google, privacy, SNA, social network analysis, social networking
by Jeffrey Mann | August 5, 2010 | 14 Comments
So Google announced yesterday that it was pulling the plug on its high profile Wave initiative. Gartner will soon publish a First Take with the official reaction, but the way this announcement was made got me thinking. I will not cry for Wave, but I find this an unsettling move. Not because Google has killed [...]
Category: collaboration Google social software startup Tags: enterprise, Google, startups, wave
by Jeffrey Mann | July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
I arrived in Oxford, UK today for the TED Global conference have been looking forward to this specifically for almost a year, and generally since I first heard about from friends who went to one one of the first TED (technology, education, design) conferences organized by Richard Saul Wurman. The conference’s influence has grown enormously [...]
Category: being an analyst europe Events social software TED Global Tags: conferences, optimism, TED, TED Global
by Jeffrey Mann | June 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
I haven’t been blogging or tweeting much in the last couple weeks. I’ve had my head down while getting the magic quadrant for externally-facing social software ready for review and finishing the bulk of work on the Cannes Symposium agenda. Neither of these are completely finished yet, but both are close enough for people to [...]
Category: being an analyst consumerization europe social software symposium Tags:
by Jeffrey Mann | April 18, 2010 | 26 Comments
I spent a good part of the weekend surfing web sites to find more information about how the volcano eruption in Iceland is decimating travel in Europe; partly because it is a fascinating event, but mostly because my wife is in Canada and wants to get home. I booked her tickets using points on KLM.com, [...]
Category: Cloud europe Personal social media social software Tags: #ashcloud, #ashtag, airfrance, Facebook, klm, social media, twitter, volcano
by Jeffrey Mann | February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
You may not have realized it, but today is the third annual Safer Internet Day, a day to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially for children and young people around the world. The awkward name, doofy logo and stiff language quickly identify this as a government initiative (with [...]
Category: Cloud collaboration consumerization Facebook privacy security social media social software technology Tags: children on the Internet, EU, Facebook, Insafe, privacy, Safer Internet Day, social networking, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Internets are agog with speculation on numbers showing that the previously meteoric growth in Twitter users is beginning to sputter and slow down. Is this the end of the road for Twitter as the media darling? I’m not so sure. First, Hubspot’s measurements show that the rate of growth is slowing, not that Twitter [...]
Category: consumerization microblogging social media social software Twitter Tags: #SOTwitter, Hubspot, microblogging, twitter
by Jeffrey Mann | January 8, 2010 | 5 Comments
Like many places in the northern hemisphere, it snowed here last night. So like many people, I started the day clearing the driveway and creating a path to the front door. This takes some time, and since it is fairly mindless activity, my brain wanders while doing it. I get lots of ideas when I [...]
Category: collaboration social software technology Vendors Tags: adoption, pointless, snow, social media, tagging
