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Tracking A Million Conversations

Social media allows anyone to say anything they want and have it broadcast across the globe. Most of the time our conversations simmer in obscurity and then drift off into the nothingness of digital archives. But some ideas boil over. Perhaps United ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Airlines,  Twitter Inc,  LinkedIn Corp

Organic IT

As the amount of technology readily available has grown, IT managers have had to deal with a problem known as Shadow IT, the phenomenon of pesky users solving problems on their own using consumer and Web technology. Typically, a group of users fed up ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc,  Facebook Inc.

How Far Will Google Wave Go?

Google Wave, the Internet giant's new online collaboration tool, has generated much buzz among developers, and now it has a large geeky fan following doing strange and relatively useless things. You can check out some of the silliness at the Google ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  1 Nov 2009

Squeezing The Spend

The panic brought on by the recession has sparked a frenzied round of cost cutting. But not for the best-run companies, which long ago implemented a continuous process of spend analysis and optimization. When things ease up, companies operating in ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  27 Oct 2009

Who Is In Charge Of Your Data?

The theory behind most business software is that modeling business activity by capturing descriptive data can lead to greater visibility and automation. To that end, a vast amount of time is spent every day entering data that describes purchase orders, ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Tony Fisher

Social Media Dos And Don'ts

For the past four years, Zia Yusuf, executive vice president for SAP's global ecosystem & partner group, has focused on how to make Internet-based communities and social media work for business. Yusuf has worked with a variety of other companies that ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  LinkedIn Corp,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Digg

London Church may be Forced to Close over Muslim Neighbour Singing Complaint

If you think you’ve heard it all from post-Christian Britain, here’s a story that will shock many of you. A London, UK, church has been effectively “silenced” by a Court after a decision by Magistrates to uphold a noise abatement notice, not to play ...

From DAN WOODING, Ft. Hard Knox,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: The Church (musician)

The Myth of Crowdsourcing

The recent coverage of the $1 million Netflix prize was rightly heralded as a victory for crowdsourcing. The competition was designed to create a better algorithm for recommending films. But in the popular press, and in the minds of millions of people, ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Netflix,  Jimmy Wales,  Linus Torvalds,  Harvard University

The Greenhouse Gas Dilemma

The world of carbon management is most often discussed these days in terms of the pending Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade legislation, which will put steadily decreasing limits on carbon emissions and create a market for carbon credits. While most people ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  IHS Inc.,  Oracle

The Death Of Business Intelligence

During the presidential election, CNN anchor John King danced around the newsroom in front of gigantic multi-touch screens, tapping states and moving information around with his hands. He showed a way of analyzing information that is applicable to ...

From DAN WOODS, Forbes,  13 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Dan Woods

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