Can Social Media Save Red Herring?
Red Herring, the tech industry’s essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital news and buzz during the go-go ‘90s but since fallen on...

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How to Be a Successful Blogger: The Scrupski Rules
Susan Scrupski, one of the brightest (and nicest) people I’ve met in my Enterprise Web 2.0 adventures, recently became Chief of Appli...

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Living the Social Media Values at SAP
It’s a cold day in hell pretty rare when a large company invites bloggers to sit in on (and actively participate in) a real working...

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

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Attention Business Bloggers: Big Brother is Watching
You knew it was only a matter of time.  Techrigy Inc., a Rochester, New York startup, has launched a new “social media compliance product” cal...

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FreshBooks Opens API; Lets in Some Fresh Air
The Enterprise Web 2.0 revolution has been a godsend to small and midsized companies.  Inexpensive, web-based tools and services mean the lit...

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Where Have I Been?
As regular readers of this blog (I’m planning to write both of you a thank you note soon) may have noticed, I haven’t been writing a ...

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Whose Content is It Anyway? A Response to Brian Oberkirch
Brian Oberkirch and I had an ugly dustup yesterday over his having used Social Media Today, a web site I facilitate that pulls togetherR...

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E 2.0 Breakthrough in Europe: Trampoline Systems Raises $5.8 Million
One of our favorite social software startups (See profile), London-based Trampoline Systems has become the first European “Enterprise 2.0” software developer to receive major i...

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Introducing the Social Media Content Audit
One of the most formidable barriers to the widespread adoption of social media tools within enterprises is fear of failure.   What if we ma...

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