This week, I attended IBM’s Lotusphere 2012, IBM’s annual customer and partner event which showcases the latest products and strategy in the area of collaboration. Like last year, “social business” was squarely at the centre of things, although there was a marked difference between the way the company positioned its social message this time when [...]
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 by Angela AshendenYesterday, my colleague Helena Schwenk and I attended Cloudforce London 2011, Salesforce.com’s regional customer and partner event. While a much smaller affair than the company’s main San Francisco conference, the London event has become increasingly popular – with demand for attendance meaning that it had to extend to a second day (today) this year, as [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Angela AshendenOver the last few weeks, there has been growing debate and discussion about why social business/social collaboration/Enterprise 2.0 – pick your term – has as yet failed to gain mainstream adoption in the business workplace. Various blogs and comment streams express frustration that five years on from Andrew McAfee’s MIT Sloan Management Review paper, in [...]
Posted on Friday, September 2, 2011 by Angela AshendenLater this month, IBM is releasing the next version of its social collaboration product, Lotus Connections. When it was first launched in June 2007, Connections provided a sort of electric shock for the enterprise collaboration software market, showing that an industry giant can indeed be innovative and market defining, and of course in the three [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Angela AshendenLast week I attended the J.Boye Aarhus 2010 conference in Denmark, where I was presenting The social intranet: online communities for enterprise collaboration for the event’s Collaboration track. I have attended a couple of J.Boye events in London previously, so I am somewhat familiar with J.Boye’s unusual approach to their events, but this was my [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 by Angela AshendenDon’t forget to check out our FREE MWD Insights collaboration event – How to get your people talking: the secrets of successful collaboration and Enterprise 2.0. The event, which is available on-demand so you can view it as and when it’s convenient, includes a keynote presentation by me, accompanied by two case study interviews with [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Angela AshendenToday MWD launched a new free online event targeted at senior business and IT decision makers within enterprises with roles to play in driving collaboration and knowledge management improvements. The event – How to get your people talking: the secrets of successful collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 – includes a keynote presentation by MWD’s collaboration expert [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 by Beth BarlingYesterday Salesforce.com’s customer, partner and media event, Cloudforce 2010, took place in London, drawing an impressive 3,000 or so attendees – all the more impressive given that the company changed the date only a week in advance in order to avoid clashing with Tuesday’s London Tube strike. The event itself was the first since the [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 9, 2010 by Angela AshendenUncategorized
Along with an assorted collection of other analysts and journalists, on Friday I sat down for a conversation with Charles Phillips. The invitation to came pretty much out of the blue a couple of weeks ago; the reason was because “Charles is interested in having a conversation about Web 2.0 trends in the enterprise, and [...]
Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 by adminAs part of my research into all things collaboration, not least through my development of our forthcoming continuous advisory service, I have regular briefings with software vendors to find out what they are doing. Usually vendors are more than pleased to brief us analysts – anything to build the profile of their company or products [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 by admin
