The Seamless Enterprise

Ran across an interesting Gartner survey of CIOs the other day, regarding their technology priorities for the coming year. Coming in at the top three spots were virtualization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0. (more…)

Does your enterprise have a social media governance policy? According to TechTarget,  only 1 in 7 companies have social media governance procedures in place. Exactly what is included in a social media policy, and why is it important? Social media is the new media, and it is impossible to control with firm limits. It is possible, however, to provide guidelines to empower employees and to communicate with customers and employees in a new way.

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Jeff Pulver made what I thought was an interesting observation in a recent conference call. We were talking about my guest blog over at Pulver.com, and he happened to comment about how in his pre-social media guru days, he was an IT guy at a brokerage house. (more…)

On November 9th, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Let’s look astoundingly at how our world has changed since 1989. We are communicating in ways never before imagined. To experience this in our lifetime is remarkable. To think about bandwidth and network requirements to meet our insatiable demand for voice, data, video, and the web, is mind-boggling. Remarkably, as far as these technologies advance us, some parts of the world still face hurdles to be a part of this communication phenomenon. (more…)

Maybe you saw that little news item about the 40th anniversary of the first Internet message. Actually, partial message. Someone in the fall of 1969 was trying to use the then-newborn network to access a remote computer, and started typing “login.” The letters L and O were transmitted, but at that point the remote computer crashed. Not the blue-screen-of-death … but the early-Internet equivalent. (more…)