Can someone cleverer than me answer this? – looks to me like my old buddies at Cisco are starting to put Search into the Network….If so Google will be chuffed… Cisco: Leveraging Networks To Seed Search & Graphs? Will Cisco gear become search engine toll collectors? Patent (pdf) What...

My post on LibreStream as a funky collaboration tool attracted some interest, not least from Kerry Thacher their CEO… At first I was concerned he’d taken umbrage at my suggestion that my old employers Cisco might take a keen interest in his technology but this fear was very much ungrounded. To...

And following on from my post on Google’s potential internal comms engine, the question here is push and pull. Users, those consuming information want to have information pushed at them (broadcast) and pulled by them, (selected and chosen).  Those sending information want to broadcast, to propagate...

Who noticed Google’s new Internal Comms machine announcement last week? No, we’re not talking about Wave this is far more fun. Google announced news of its Desktop Notifcations API. Now for many many years I managed something ultimately very similar, (albeit with video) which needed very strong...

Not sure why anyone would want to do this, but a new Twitter application lets UK citizens (or anyone else mad enough to do so) follow their MPs on Twitter. Called Tweetminister Wire the app – in beta as I write – is made by Tweetminister and lets users stalk, follow the every move of their...

A couple of weeks or so ago I set up one of those polls in LinkedIn asking what the single most important aim of internal comms was. The chart of the results so far is thus:    The discussion continued on LinkedIn, with a lively engagement on what the most importan aspect might be. Now of course, this is...

Over at LinkedIn I recently created one of their polls to elicit some information about what really drives Internal Communications. The LinkedIn poll widget allows one to solicit 5 possible answers to a question.  So throwing caution to the gales I asked “What’s the single most important aim of...

Mike Gotta has produced a very useful Field Research Study for Burton: Social Networking Within the Enterprise (free registration required).  There’s a good exec overview at CIO.com: Report: Enterprises Struggle to Adopt Social Networking Internally. Note however, CIO’s somewhat negative angle...

A quiet week on the blog front as on a Prince2 (a UK project management system, similar to the US’s PMP) course all this week with Parity training at Moorgate. Lots of homework to do and there’s so much to cram in. Learning about Project Initiation Documents (PID) and Dr.Qil – Daily, Risk,...

There’s a good many of my compilation of social media case studies that point to using Twitter to successfully market goods or service. Few have thought of ways that Twitter itself might make money. Premium usage, advertising, pay per user, are the usual solutions proffered. Now as Erick Shonfeld...