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March 09, 2010
23:36
Is Crowdsourcing Disrupting the Design Industry?
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This is an issue that I simply cannot wrap my head around. Spec work appears in the design field infinitely more times than any other industry. It absolutely floors me that people think that it is even remotely ethical to build their businesses by tearing down ours. Mark Hemmis’s comment on AIGA policy statement on spec [...]
March 06, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 030510
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From the home office in Hawaii, where I swear those waves look bigger than normal…right?…you see it too, don’t you?…sorta… #1: Funniest man on TV: Craig Ferguson http://bit.ly/brF6j2 by @berkun > “The lack of autonomy always explains mediocrity” #innovation #2: Curation’s Growing Value http://bit.ly/a5JNnR > I also turned to Twitter more than news sites for #hitsunami updates #3: [...]
March 05, 2010
15:40
My Other Blog Covers Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Social Software
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To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn’t. It takes real discipline to not talk about yourself and your company. Blogging as a medium seems so personal, and often it is. But when [...]
February 27, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 022610
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From the home office at a table in front a congressional hearing where I’m explaining why I didn’t actually put any brakes in my cars… #1: All your authentication are belong to us http://bit.ly/d2S177 by Forrester’s @TomGrantForr > Facebook Connect is pulling away #2: RT @defrag wow. twitter moving to Cassandra (#NoSQL) – http://bit.ly/9z8nvp – so, FB, [...]
February 24, 2010
15:33
Apple iPad and Google Buzz: Harsh Reality of Innovation
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Nothing like putting your heart and soul in an innovation, and then getting this: Man, tough audience. But very much in keeping with some the best advice on innovation. Which is, you can’t have innovation without some failure along the way. It’s inevitable. That advice is both true, and glib. Innovation consultant Jeffrey Phillips catches the right [...]
February 20, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 021910
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From the home office in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where I’d like to apologize for my irresponsible and selfish blogging behavior… #1: RT @dhinchcliffe: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs http://bit.ly/accSYb A pretty darn important post by @dangrover #2: RT @jayrosen_nyu: I couldn’t take it anymore, so… New post: What to reject when you’re rejecting the [...]
February 17, 2010
14:00
PleaseRobMe Is the Logical Extension of Our Worst Fears about Location-Based Services
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The rise of location-based social media holds a lot of promise and benefit for participants. But a legitimate concern about them is that they make it too easy to track where you are. For some people, that’s more information than they want out there. Well, three guys – Barry Borsboom, Frank Groeneveld, Boy van Amstel – [...]
February 13, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 021210
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From the home office in Vancouver, where I’m preparing to compete in the snow blogging competition… #1: Twitter’s location information would come in handy during the Olympics. Choose to follow tweets of only those in your time zone. #2: Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley (@dens) describes the future of participating in location-based social applications http://post.ly/Mft6 #3: Fascinating study of [...]
February 10, 2010
15:45
Why Ideas Are Core to Enterprise 2.0
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Brian Solis spoke recently on what the future of social networks will be. Ideas, it turns out. As I wrote on another blog post: Solis, leading thinker in the integration of social media and PR, recently spoke on an intriguing concept: ideas connect us more than relationships. The premise of his argument is that ideas are [...]
February 06, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 020510
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From the home office in Washington D.C., where I’m dreaming of global warming in the little cave I’ve built in the snow… #1: RT @webtechman Social CRM: Ground zero for Enterprise 2.0 in 2010 http://bit.ly/amD0bJ by @dHinchcliffe Social Strategy for Business #e20 #2: How to Find Enterprise 2.0 Champions http://bit.ly/aRfoEn by Socialtext’s @michaelIdo #e20 #3: RT @Gartner_inc [...]
February 02, 2010
15:38
Apple iPad and the Radical Innovation of Meaning
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Ultimately, the iPad is a large iPod touch: a great device to draw your inspiration from, but perhaps not the seismic shift in technology that we were expecting. Claudine Beaumont, Apple iPad review, The Telegraph The much anticipated announcement of Apple’s iPad tablet was met with a resounding…”ho hum” or worse from much of the technology crowd. [...]
January 30, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 012910
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From the home office at the annual retreat of Republican members of the House of Representatives in Baltimore, where I’m taking questions on my blog care plan… #1: RT @cbneese My coworker: “Hey everyone I got the iPad, only I got the smaller, more portable version, with internet, a camera, and a phone.” #2: RT @dhinchcliffe The [...]
January 26, 2010
15:46
In the Future We’ll All Have Online Reputation Scores
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In a recent interview with EMC’s Stu Miniman about the future of the web, I predicted that in 20 years, we’ll all have online reputation scores. Little badges, numbers that communicate our level of authority, this sort of thing. And these reputations will have tangible impact. Three different trends come together at some point in the [...]
January 23, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 012210
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From the home office in Massachusetts, where I’m saying, “Kennedy who?” #1: the six types of ideas http://bit.ly/6pKGGZ #innovation #2: RT @InfoWeekSMB Spigit Introduces ‘Idea Management’ for SMBs http://bit.ly/6CGhWO #3: RT @johnt Systems that eliminate failure, eliminate innovation by @snowded http://icio.us/xoupma #4: This is really cool: @tyler_thompson decided to redesign airline boarding passes: http://bit.ly/75OWtU What do you think? #5: RT [...]
January 19, 2010
18:57
Why SMBs Need Social Software – Dunbar’s Number Limits Metcalfe’s Law
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A general observation of collaborative work is this: The larger and more diverse are your personal network of contacts, the higher the quality of your ideas and project work. In the enterprise market, the opportunity being seized by companies is to better connect employees. The sheer size of these firms makes it obvious that they are not optimizing [...]
January 16, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 011510
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From the home office at 11:35 pm weeknights, where I’ll be sitting in the Tonight Show chair after the Winter Olympics… #1: Defining Social Business http://bit.ly/6pfbpy by @stoweboyd #e20 #2: RT @time Foursquare’s Twist on Facebook: A Reward for Checking In – TIME http://tinyurl.com/yce6jld #3: One thing we’ll see more in next 20 years: online reputations. Not just [...]
January 12, 2010
14:00
There Really Is Nothing that Cannot Be Innovated
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In a recent post, Four Quadrants of Innovation, I described one type of innovation as leveraging existing technologies, serving existing customers. In popular culture, this type of innovation is..well, frankly it’s boring. No cool new advances, no new stuff you haven’t tried before. But what is compelling about this type of innovation is how well it [...]
January 09, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 010810
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From the home office in Sacramento, where Governor Schwarzenegger laid out an initial budget that will take 11 months to resolve and pass…go ahead and get your California jokes ready now… #1: If this topic interests you – Designing for Innovation through Competitive Collaboration – I ask for your #e2conf vote http://bit.ly/8xuQuC #2: The Wisdom of Crowds [...]
January 07, 2010
18:35
Three Designs for Presenting Tweets in Search Results
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In a recent post, I described some ways in which tweets should be ranked in search results. A good follow-on question is… How should tweets be presented in search results? It’s an interesting question – how exactly would you want to see tweets in your Google and Bing search results? And it’s an important question, as searches [...]
January 05, 2010
15:41
Google Real-Time Tweet Search Identifies the Tech Elite
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Want to know if you’re truly in the technology elite? Let Google tell you! Try this: Go to Google Type in your name and the word ‘twitter’ (e.g. hutch carpenter twitter) Look at the results If you see real-time search results at the top of the page, congratulations! You’re a VIP! If not, well, sorry about that. As was well covered [...]
January 03, 2010
14:00
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 010110
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From the home office in the future, where I’m currently reviewing all these 2010 predictions with a skeptical eye… #1: How Companies Increase Innovation – WSJ.com #innovation http://post.ly/GubP #2: RT @chuckfrey Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on two ways to approach customer-focused innovation: http://ow.ly/QIbl #innovation #strategy #3: RT @briansolis Ideas Connect Us More than Relationships (video interview) http://bit.ly/8wPTzf #4: Outstanding, detailed [...]
December 31, 2009
14:30
Three Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010
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Enterprise 2.0 continued its growth and maturation in 2009. We saw the rise of the Enterprise 2.0 consultancies, including Dachis Group, Altimeter Group and Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0. Andrew McAfee published his book about Enterprise 2.0. We saw the rise of the 2.0 Adoption Council. And based on what can be gleaned from vendors, more enterprises [...]
December 27, 2009
14:30
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 122509
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From the home office in the North Pole, where I’m packing up a for a couple months relaxing in Hawaii… #1: RT @nenshad No spoilers but I agree! rt @twailgum “The Business Application of the Decade: And the Winner Is…” http://bit.ly/53BdZ2 my blog on CIO.com #2: The Benefits of Pissing People Off http://ow.ly/OHEA #innovation #3: Radian6 Sentiment Analysis [...]
December 19, 2009
14:30
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 121809
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From the home office in Washington D.C., where I’m racing home from the global warming summit in Copenhagen to beat the icy cold snow storm… #1: I’m on @paidcontent this week, discussing the ranking & presentation of tweets in search engines: http://bit.ly/6vcIGj #2: If You Can’t Innovate Across Silos, Don’t Expect To Succeed w/ Open Innovation http://bit.ly/8GPtIp [...]
December 14, 2009
15:39
Foursquare + Square = Killer Small Business Social CRM
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Parker Smith wrote a piece that got me thinking. In Foursquare: Democratizing the Loyalty Program, he posits that Foursquare could be the loyalty program provider to small businesses. I think he’s right. Then I noticed these identical product benefits touted by the companies themselves, Foursquare and Jack Dorsey’s Square: For example, foursquare can tell you how many [...]
December 12, 2009
14:45
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 121109
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From the home office in San Francisco where I’ll be taking an indefinite break from golf… #1: On top of Chatter, Salesforce buys GroupSwim http://bit.ly/8KxLGe (by @benkepes) Ever, ever deeper into #e20 #2: Check out: Enterprise 2.0 – Someone Has To Sell This Shit http://bit.ly/5XypZV #e2conf > funniest title so far #e20 #3: So very interesting: Let’s talk [...]
December 10, 2009
18:36
ComMetrics on Crowdsourcing Innovation: You’re Doing It Wrong
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ComMetrics is a social media analytics company, a division of CyTRAP Labs GmbH. ComMetrics is well-known in the industry, including its FT ComMetrics Blog Index. The company published a useful piece, Crowd-wisdom fails businesses. The basic premise is that crowds do not innovate. It’s useful, because it contains both truths and misconceptions about the role of [...]
December 07, 2009
14:45
Open Innovators Outperform the Market by 16.9%
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At the Open Innovation Summit last week in Orlando, there were a number of companies there discussing their various initiatives for open innovation. What is open innovation? UC Berkeley professor Henry Chesbrough, perhaps the father of the movement, formulated this definition several years ago: Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should [...]
December 06, 2009
14:45
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 120409
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From the home office in the middle of the road by my smashed up SUV with a nine-iron imprint on my face… #1: RT @parkerlsmith Foursquare: Democratizing the Loyalty Program http://post.ly/Dpfx > SMBs can use @fourquare as a loyalty program #2: FT.com – We’re all selling now: the evolution of online reputations http://ow.ly/Izba #socialmedia #e20 #reputation #3: What [...]
December 01, 2009
14:45
The Four Quadrants of Innovation: Disruptive vs Incremental
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I recently wrote up a post, Most Dangerous Innovation Misperception – The Silver Bullet Approach. In it, I discussed the issue of organizations myopically focusing on only disruptive innovations to the exclusion of more incremental or sustaining innovations. In doing more research on the subject, I began thinking about the dynamics that apply when a firm [...]
November 29, 2009
14:45
What You’ve Tweeted about the Past Year via Tweet Cloud
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Via Tweet Cloud, here’s what I’ve been tweeting about the past year: According to Tweet Cloud, these are my most frequently used words: innovation blog post social thanks reading enterprise spigit friendfeed google people time cool tweet media tweets software business ideas love nice hamel yeah search facebook idea companies management company world Surprises? Google coming in at #10. I love Google, but surprised I’ve mentioned them that much. And the amount of “positivity” in my tweets: “thanks”, “nice”, “cool”, “love”. You won’t see “hate” making the [...]
November 28, 2009
14:45
My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 112709
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From the home office at a White House state dinner where I just wandered in uninvited… #1: Time Magazine – The ’00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell http://ow.ly/Gm0F #2: Does driving adoption mean being off the point? http://ow.ly/FTza by @bduperrin Good riff on @rotkapchen’s #e2conf proposal #e20 #3: Remember when Facebook’s Moskovitz left to start [...]

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