The first thing you have to know is that I am somewhat addicted to statistics. Especially if I am involved at all. So of course statistics for things like my blogs, Facebook, online forums and Twitter take up too much of my personal time. Lately I’ve been looking a lot at Twitter statistics. basic...

Atlassian is the Enterprise 2.0 sector’s Slumdog Millionaire. It’s an inspiring rags to riches story of two young college graduates who set out to earn at least a “graduate salary” (approximately $30K/yr USD) by creating a business, rather than taking a corporate job like the...

Some good news to share with you: NewsGator has been named to KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management list.  This list, which is now in its ninth year, is compiled by knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. Accordi...

Josh Holmes has a great post about going the the mattresses to prove ROI for your application.  His post, “Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partnerâ€�, is well-written and is dead on the money. During my interview process at Microsoft, my interviews focused predominantly on two themes: ho...

My favorite Margaret Thatcher quote is “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.� I was reminded of this the other day when I saw a huge pickup truck with a bumper sticker that said “Sexy ass woman driving a big ass truck.�  While there is no ques...

Today’s guest blog post is from 3Sharp, the primary developer of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint. 3Sharp has very deep technical knowledge of PKS and can effectively leverage it to quickly implement custom social media applications for the enterprise. We hope that today’s blog will help you un...

Last night's Unfinished Business lecture was about design and new media in the Obama campaign, with insights from Scott Thomas (a designer) and Rahaf Harfoush (a social media strategist). The event was held in the auditorium of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and roughly 300 people atten...

If you do a search engine search for something like “decide who to follow on Twitter� you will find that there are lots of opinions out there. And yes, you guessed it, I have my own. :-) Some people will tell you to follow everyone. And yes you can do that. It’s easy enough. For some goals it ...

Excuse my newbie exuberance, but OMG Rhapsody.com finally launched profile pages!!!  They've been up for a while now, which makes me think they're for real this time.  A couple of you might remember that this feature was live for something like a week in early 2007.  But it was very s...

Community and collaboration are wonderful things. Fourteen great minds on social media have shared thoughts on what 2009 may have in store for us.  Here's some of what they're thinking: "Although it is now cheaper to launch an initiative leveraging Web 2.0 technology - it requires qualified and pas...