Archives - Feb 2009

I'm joined by a couple of other social business strategists in this January 24 article on Social Networking Do's and Don'ts.

Now that the social media "dust" has settled, many companies feel like they've made the transition to a stable, predictable, Web 2.0 world. Not so fast! I'm going to lead a conversation about a second wave of changes underway or rapidly approaching. I'll be speaking at Blogout09 in Singapore March 6 about Communications Inside Out, based on the final chapter of my book, is loosely structured around five key shifts in perceptions about what social media is, and how it behaves

Here's why, in no particular order, we think the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) will rock some worlds soon

Twitter has announcement that it will soon begin charging for "commercial use" should yield benefits to end users, companies, and the Web 2.0 marketplace as a whole. So just what is commercial use? Companies over a certain size or all companies? Will commercial users go elsewhere? Where is there to go?

Web 2.0 will play a huge role in how the Obama administration delivers on its promise to bring the federal government into the digital age, but some of the best applications for doing so may not be found public facing social networks.

You may have already noticed by following us on Twitter or just by clicking around on the site, but we've launched a number of Present.ly clients in the past weeks.

In the February 2 Wall Street Journal, Chris Anderson says "digital goods" are "free," but this oversimplifies how Web 2.0 businesses are "making money" and how users are paying for their services, even when the price tag says $0.