A weblog by Christopher Carfi, since 2004.
Just back from Atlanta, and the outstanding SoCon conference. What a rush!
A number of folks asked for the slides from the keynote. I've uploaded them here, and they are embedded below as well.
Others commenting on the event:
And some great pictures here from Josh Hallett (including the one above).
Seth says creative is “the stuff you do at the edges”
I disagree.
Creative, or create-ive is something else. It’s making something new. (Dave Gray first introduced me to this interpretation here, please read – gives a ton of back-story.)
Rich Gold defined it like this:
When you say “creat-ive,” say it with the hyphen. Completely changes the meaning of the word.
Based on the previous post, a thought:
How do we stop thinking about “transaction costs” and, instead, start thing about *relationship costs* (or perhaps their glass-half full counterpart “relationship *value*”)?
"Good ideas should stand in their own proven pudding." – Doc Searls
ProjectVRM is one of those Good Ideas. At its most fundamental, VRM is about "providing customers with tools that make them both independent of vendors and better able to engage with vendors."
From my point of view, there are basic underpinnings such as:
(By the way, the fundaments of a "You know it's VRM…" document exist here, if you would like to contribute. I encourage you to please do so.)
There are more that will evolve over time, I'm sure. This whole VRM thing is a (very early) work in (very early) progress.
So, when someone goes salting the soil before anything has been planted, it definitely gets my hackles up a little bit. (Please read both the original "Fallacies" piece from Graham Hill as well as its counterpoint by Doc.)
We're in the definition and building stages of this thing. Instead of saying it should be bulldozed, how about helping define its architecture instead?
“There is no such thing as bad weather. There are only poor choices of clothing.” – Scandinavian proverb
Dion Hinchcliffe from ZDNet put his prognostication prowess to the test with eight predictions for 2009. Here they are.
1. Tight budgets will drive the adoption of low-cost Web 2.0 and cloud/SaaS solutions.
"This seems like an obvious prediction but how it plays out will be very
interesting…"
2. Online community and 2.0 technologies become a priority for most organizations. "The early data from our IT and Business Outlook Survey for 2009 shows these two areas as a top priority this year for respondents…"
3. Cloud computing will remain one of the biggest new Internet developments.
"The cloud computing story, as compelling as it is today for many
situations, will only get larger in 2009…"
4. Internal use of 2.0 will continue growth in large enterprises while the struggle continues with market-facing 2.0 products.
"We saw widespread internal penetration of social networking and
Enterprise 2.0 in organizations globally in 2008, but the weak story
continues to be the successful creation of online 2.0 products for the
broader marketplace…"
5. The economic climate will at long last drive major advances towards aligning IT with business.
"With little room for error this year, many organizations will finally
close ranks over the IT/business divide to reorganize, respond to new
business conditions, create new revenue streams, and solve
long-standing business challenges…"
6. Mobile platforms and devices will become highly strategic in 2009. "[Mobile] will drive business applications that continue to untether the
workforce, enable virtual organization while connecting workers
together using new collaboration and communication technologies, many
of which will be using 2.0 approaches. If the desktop didn’t completely
die in 2008, it will become almost completely outmoded in 2009…" [ed. – right on. ;-)]
7. SOA goes on a diet, picks up some new tricks, and survives.
"I’ve long been bullish on the ideas of SOA, but very concerned that the
focus is on complicated technology, hard to master skills, and too much
the purview of technologists and not business people…"
8. The massive changes in the business landscape create new 2.0 business opportunities. "While the financial sector has been hit hard, many aspects of it were already online, if in a very 1.0 way…"
Jon has some good thoughts regarding identity. Key line: "The premise that you should be able to express and share online without fear is definitely a freeing concept."
