The rapid ascension of social media as a force in marketing and public relations has produced a nasty culture shock among communications professionals.  Fo...

Continue Reading Deborah Weil and the Art of the Fake

Now we know why Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has starting updating his blog again after a long hiatus between posts:  he’s been gear...

Continue Reading Social Media Bites Whole Foods CEO

Is Linkedin in play?  Most of the recent flurry of reporting about Facebook has focused on the impact that its wildly successful foray into the ...

Continue Reading Is LinkedIn About to Be Sold?

A hot topic among social media bloggers these days is exactly which big companies “get” the value of connectedness, community an...

Continue Reading SAP to Enterprise 2.0 Community: We Get It

Jigsaw is a fast-growing, controversial online marketplace that lets people trade their business contacts for more contacts or cash.  Co-fo...

Continue Reading 5 Questions for Jim Fowler, CEO and co-founder of Jigsaw

Let’s be honest for a moment: FAST is not the first company you think about when you think of search. If you’re like me, four da...

Continue Reading Message From FASTForward: Search Changes Everything

Back on July 30 I posted a piece called 5 Good Reasons Not All CEOs Should Blog.  Thanks to Jason Goldberg of Jobster, the online recruiting ...

Continue Reading When CEOs Lie in Their Blogs

Jakob Nielsen has issued his annual 10 Best-Designed Intranets list. I guess we’ll have to take his word for it since you have to pay $174...

Continue Reading Jakob Nielsen Hates Enterprise 2.0

I have a post on l’affaire Spocko over at the FastForward Blog today.  Nathan Gilliatt has an even better follow up here. ...

Continue Reading Blogosphere Bites Disney

It is a truth held to be self-evident among IT professionals:  geeks are from Krypton, suits  are from Uranus.  The antipathy between members of...

Continue Reading Geeks and Suits Rumble. Again.