Obama didn't build the greatest online political network. Howard Dean did. Obama just copied it exactly; I might add, not as well. Obama's web team was subpar compared to the Dean team. But they had the benefit of a better candidate who inspired the populace. In Obama they had a well spoken Dean. Fu...

Understanding how companies staff, organize, and prepare for social media/computing is one of my top interests personally and professionally. Having been a former Online Community Manager at Hitachi Data Systems, I want to make sure companies do it right. Often, I’m asked, which companies have...

I’m writing this from the plane, as I travel to Cambridge at Forrester’s HQ to teach a Social Computing Workshop with Peter Kim tomorrow. As I daydreamed while watching the clouds go by, I couldn’t help by reflecting on all the stupid things I’ve heard in my short 9 year care...

Just got back from meeting with an executive recruiter, no, I’m not planning on leaving Forrester, I was helping a friend, as well as doing some research. You see this recruiter (he can self-identify in the comments if he wants) finds executive talent for social media startups here in Silicon ...

The Web Strategist (corporate web decision makers) has internal customers For many web strategists’ much of your effort won’t be dealing with users or your web team of developers and designers but with internal stakeholders. I’ve seen a lot of this when I was corporate web manager,...

I write for the web strategist (web decision makers at companies) and was really pleased that we got a top notch professional here at named Michelle Frost here at Forrester Research. A few weeks ago, I announced that Forrester is seeking a Community Manager, and wow did we get a response, over 20 re...

This morning, I received a few emails asking if it was still possible to register for the February 19-21 webinar series about website redesign (the initial registration deadline was yesterday). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Thursday (Feb 14) at 8PM ET - hey,...

As I mentioned in a previous post about new initiatives in the higher ed designer community, John Strubel, Higher Ed Experts member and Web developer at Charleston Southern University, has been working very hard on a new website targeted to university web designers: eduDesigners.com. I’ve been wat...

I don’t know if this is due to something in the water (or in the air), but the higher ed web community is bubbling with great new initiatives. Here’s a quick list of what’s going on. Andy Shaindlin who blogs at Alumni Futures wants to encourage you to brainstorm new ideas to improv...