FASTforward - The Blog
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Discuss and debate how a new generation of search and search-driven applications are impacting the way we do business, compete, learn, build communities, socialize, and save, store, and search data.
The blog, like FASTforward '07, aims to drive and deepen conversation about how today’s companies can "Innovate, Accelerate and Dominate."
Please join us for what we hope will be a fun and engaging conversation that begins on the blog, is fully extended and realized at the conference, and, if we’re lucky, continues on past the conference.
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Leading and Managing (Networked) People Must Evolve
OK .. so it looks like the Web, hyperlinks and ’social’ platforms for interaction are here to stay (unless electricity grids fail or corporations and governments completely take over the Web).
For the past couple of years at least there have been increasingly numerous and strident calls for fundamental make-overs of both management and leadership. People [...]
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Saying Farewell with a Look at the Brighter Side of Web 2.0
I have enjoyed participating in the FastFoward blog for the four plus years it has been in existence. It have been a great place to meet interesting people and share ideas. At every conference I have met new people who said they were following us on this blog. All good things have their run and [...]
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What Did You Do in the Social Networking Revolution, Daddy?
I have been covering and reporting and analyzing the business technology scene for more than 25 years now.
And every couple of years or so, a new technology “revolution” would spring up. Not the stale, overhyped prior revolution that had just passed — but a new, exciting revolution.This time, things would be different. This new revolution [...]
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So what happened in 4 years of writing for Fast Forward Blog?
In my first post in July of 2007, I asked myself - What were all these new tools going to be about?. For when the steam engine arrived, I am sure the Steam Geeks, all talked about pressure, bearings etc. But steam changed the world. It forced us to use the clock. It meant that [...]
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What Exactly Does a Social Media Influence Score Mean?
I had not been paying too much attention to Klout until I saw this article in the New York Times, Got Twitter? You’ve Been Scored. I skimmed it and tweeted about it to save the link for further reading. I often use my Twitter, @billlives, as a social bookmarking tool so I remember and have [...]
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When the conversation shifts – sometimes you just say goodbye
Three years ago we embarked on a journey of hosting an Enterprise 2.0 discussion through the FASTForward Blog. The aim of this blog was to drive and deepen conversation about how today’s companies can use technology to put users in control of information. It was home to the ongoing discussion about Enterprise 2.0 [...]
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Review of Business Goes Virtual: Making Sense of Social
Recently, I received a review copy of Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies by John P. Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn L. Girard. I have known Cindy for some time and we have done work together on several occasions, including several writing efforts so I had high expectations for [...]
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Is shutting down social networks the best response to unrest?
In my most recent post I showed how the community and the police are on a rapid learning curve to use social media to help them cope with the rioters – who also use the same tools.
It is ironic that we in the west now are considering shutting down parts of social media as a [...]
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Forrester on Designing Mobile Apps
Mobile collaboration is an increasingly important topic as two-thirds of the information workforce already work remotely, according to Forrester data. With the adoption of tablets such as the iPad and the proliferation of smart phones in the enterprise, that number figures to grow significantly. It is a matter of when, not whether that mobile devices [...]
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Riots in the UK – The lessons for all of us – You Have to be Plugged into the Web
Joe mentioned this week that the use of Social Media still have not taken off in small business.
But we also learned this week that the use of social media and texting is at the core of how the riots in the UK are being organized. The best rioter’s tool – The Blackberry which is encrypted.
Since then, [...]
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