While it has been in the works for a bit, leaving IDC was difficult. I am leaving behind some incredibly smart and interesting colleagues (and good friends) in IDC's Digital Marketplace team (Sue Feldman, Danielle Levitas, Karsten Weide, and Caroline Dangson). I've also been fortunate enough to have covered the emerging market of enterprise social media which brought together my backg ...
Communications, expectations, and business seem to move
faster than ever these days. With the
constant buzz of the Blackberry, a continuous stream of Tweets, and in
incessant interruption of IMs our attention spans have dwindled even more. Our collective attention and patience is a
dwindling resource. Yet, community
dynamics still require a long-term view. Communities – and I don't mean flash ...
"Management by Committee" has a lousy image. It connotes trying to herd cats - convincing one person, than another, than another - only to have to re-convince the first person later because they caucused with the other side while you were lobbying everyone else. That process is time consuming, fraught with risk, and often hard to really get at what people want. In Washington D.C. where Congres ...
When I meet with executives I often ask if they blog and the answer is often no - followed by a variety of reasons, some valid, some questionable. But one thing is often true: blogging can take a lot of time. Some executives get around this by having someone in their communications group write their blog posts. Not really ideal and probably less than authentic.
I've gone to a lot of enterprise/technology conferences in the last 15 years - and even developed and managed a few. It has always been a somewhat numbing series of presentations, demos, meetings and new faces. If I was really well organized, I had a series of specific meetings lined up but...let's be honest, I was rarely that organized.
With Twitter things have changed a lot - from ena ...