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Ross Mayfield is co-founder, Chairman and President, and former CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California. He is also a regular blogger and public speaker.

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Why Twitter Implemented Retweets

Two weeks ago Twitter partnered with Bing and Google to provide the real time firehose for inclusion in their search indexes. Most likely these deals are providing the majority of Twitter's revenue to date. Form follows funding, which isn't necessarily ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

From Enterprise 2.0 Adoption to Business Value

In 2006, Enterprise 2.0 gained a definitional framework with Andrew McAfee's seminal article. But then the conversation quickly shifted to adoption frameworks. In part this was needed for something that was both new and powered by people. But ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  2 Nov 2009

Expertise Location and Social Sofware

They believe the answer to this problem is, no surprise, enterprise social software: Activities and interactions that occur in blogs, wikis and social networks naturally provide the cues that are missing from current expertise-search systems. A search ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  26 Oct 2009

Web 2.0 Square

The theme of this year's Web 2.0 Summit is web squared (pdf). That is, its time to focus on impact in the real world. Fred Wison says the big trends driving this space are social, mobile and real time -- to form a golden triangle. I'd suggest geo, or ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  22 Oct 2009

The Spreadsheet gets a (Revision) History

During the beta period we got some great feedback that led to improvements like better handling of revision history cell-by-cell. We also discovered use cases we didn't anticipate. Like how Epitaph Records manages and collaborates around their release ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dave Ball

Slideshare for Business

I'm an advisor to Slideshare, the world's largest sharing community for professionals.  , a new way for businesses to promote themselves with direct business results: You may not know that 80% of Slideshare's members are business decision makers. With ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  6 Oct 2009

Hire Monday #hiremonday

Follow Friday is a fun trend on Twitter that helps bring attention to people. Why not do so for one of the better causes -- getting them jobs? Today I suggested we start Hire Monday. Simply mention someone you recommend that needs a job, and the ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Social Nomenclatura Napkin

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341cd8a453ef0120a588c0c8970b Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  21 Sep 2009

Socialtext Mobile Social Software

Mashable: Socialtext Mobile: Business Activity Streams On the Go by Barb Dybwad, September 9, 2009 "If you’re one of the many enterprise (and increasingly, small business) users of Socialtext, you’ll be excited about today’s Socialtext Mobile beta ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  TechCrunch

Humanizing the Employee, then the Customer

I don't think we admit enough that automation is failing us. That such intelligent design is not remaking our world as intended. Often I find myself in these kinds of conversations taking a side in an almost religious manner because the other side ...

From ROSS MAYFIELD, Ross Mayfield's Weblog,  12 Aug 2009

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