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Excerpt from the Times, 20th November 1997: An elderly couple drove nearly 100 miles from Portsmouth to BBC Thames Valley Radio in Caversham, Berkshire, to visit their local web site. They had seen an advert inviting them to visit the BBC web site, and had imagined it was a building. That was fourteen years ago, … Continue reading “Thinking more about the social enterprise: visitors and residents”
[Disclaimer: As most of you know, I work for salesforce.com, and have been doing so since October 2010; you will also know that it is not my style to write corporate plugs on this blog, and I’m not going to start with this one. I’ve written it for two reasons. One, if you’re interested in … Continue reading “Thinking about the Social Enterprise”
Introduction In Steve Rosenbaum’s Curation Nation, Esther Dyson quotes Bill Gates as saying “The future of search is verbs”. Esther goes on to say that nobody really looks for something per se, they look for things in order to do something. Action. When Marc Benioff elucidates his vision for the Social Enterprise, he stresses the … Continue reading “Curation in the Enterprise: Actionable information”
[Note: This is a follow-up to my earlier post on Curation in the Enterprise, and seeks to develop some of the themes introduced there.] First, a quick recap. Machines can filter. Only humans can curate. When a human curates, she does three things. She selects something (or things) from a larger group. She organises those … Continue reading “Curation and the enterprise: part 2”
[Esther Dyson, Clay Shirky, Marc Benioff and David Weinberger, people I consider as friends, have said and written things that have influenced this post considerably; the curated conversations between Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere, as recorded in This Is Not The End Of The Book, have also been very influential. Finally, Steven Rosenbaum’s excellent Curation … Continue reading “Thinking about curation in the enterprise”