http://www.theorangechair.com/blog AS Emerging Technologies blog Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:16:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Long time twitter users (sufferers?) are used to seeing the whale image being lifted by birds: it means twitter is down. Again. Well, if twitter is a whale, this time the two birds coming along to lift it up are Jeff Bezos and Boston's Spark Capital, to name a few. ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/26/twitter-gets-a-lift/ Over at Fluevog Shoes they are using crowd sourcing to find and select new designs for their innovative style of footwear. They called it Fluevog’s Open Source Footwearand what it means is that some of their new shoe designs are selected.."...through a combination of peer voting, feasibility and if we ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/19/crowd-sourcing-shoe-design-fluevog%e2%80%99s-open-source-footwear/ I've just finished listening to a presentation on pre-boarding, onboarding, and engaging employees from day zero by Ron Hascome (VP, HCM Technology Strategy Practice, HRchitect). The key message I took away was that companies are now more concerned about the effect of onboarding on employee retention than they used to ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/18/engaging-employees-from-day-0-the-role-of-web-20/ Amazon has com up with an interesting approach to using twitter: they broadcast daily deals on music. I think this is well done. They don't abuse twitter or their followers because they are limiting it to one broadcast a day. And they are letting people in on good deals, making ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/17/amazon-uses-twitter-to-promote-sales/ There is a story at the nytimes.com on how LinkedIn is getting an infusion of capital. I think the reason is simple (and I've highlighted it in this quote: "Now, in the midst of Silicon Valley’s recession-proof enthusiasm for community-oriented Web sites, the most boring of the social networks is finally grabbing ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/17/linkedin-gets-ready-to-take-off/ At nytimes.com is a good article on the venerable music company, EMI. Like many music companies, EMI is struggling with the changes brought on to their industry over recent years. Some of those changes were brought on with the Web. What is interesting is that they are also using the ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/16/music-and-web-20/ The nytimes.com has an excellent article on how Barack Obama uses the Internet and specifically social computing to be a highly effective candidate for the position of President of the United States. This article has many good examples of how he is going about things differently ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/13/barack-obama-is-in-the-vanguard-ofweb-20-use/ According to this article in the globeandmail.com, MySpace plans redesign for next weekThis is big news in that it is coming on the heels of announcements of facebook to change the design of it's site too. And while you may think that MySpace is for kids..." with about 110 ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/13/social-network-news-myspace-redesign/ I'm happy to share that one of my favorite Enterprise 2.0 tools within IBM is now available on the Internet. IBM Pass It Along is now available on Alphaworks, a public IBM site for people interested in trying out emerging technologies--all you need is a free ibm.com account. IBM Pass ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/06/10/ibm-pass-it-along-social-learning/ Here are some of my tips on running an unconference based on my experience running an unconference as part of a 2-day IBM conference. Advertise - make sure your participants understand how an unconference is different.  That this is about what the participants want.  The unconference is what the participants make ... http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2008/05/23/tips-for-running-an-unconference/