Step into the light
What happens when we rebuild our online experience around people? We now can connect to those we want to in our private and work lives and build an online experience around them and the people that they are connected to, too. The most important underpinnings of a social network is trust and […]
By popular demand, here are some pics and links of The Enterprise Octopus from Web 2.0 Expo. In case you don’t know who the Entperise Octopus is, she’s the icon for Social Software in the enterprise. I’m pretty sure I looked like a big Gomer in most of this, but hey, I was sitting in […]
No, not an email inbox
Even the people who develop email software like Microsoft, Google and IBM know that the inbox sucks. We don’t need a new email inbox we need something completely new. The problem is that Social Software seems to headed into the same problems as email and we certainly don’t need another dump […]
(Due to popular Twitter demand, the below is a guest post from @staceymonk. I invite you to read what she has to say and to participate if the spirit of “going big” touches you. Oh, and Happy Birthday Stacey.)
Hi! I’m Stacey.
Wed night, as Sam was apparently pondering blogging on poop (er, diarrhea to be precise), […]
Since the last customer highlight was so popular and since Nike’s newest online community went live yesterday, I thought I’d share some of the kick-butt things that they’re doing. They are an unbelievably creative company that spends a huge amount of time engaging with their customers. Loic had already interviewed Michael Tchao (first video). I […]
The big IT vendors aren’t taking social software seriously. They can’t. Not even if they wanted to. They’re wedded to a massive install base and business model based on extremely profitable file-based applications. There’s no easy way out. This very thing happened ten years ago to the photography market. That’s why the ten-year stock prices […]
For those not in the Twitter stream, a week ago I broke my foot in three places. Last weekend, I Twittered about it and joked about getting my wheelchair sponsored for Web 2.0 Expo, which started today. Within seconds, Zivity raised their hand, which shocked me. Potentially too racy for a Jive sponsorship, they […]
Marketing and PR are out of control
In some ways, I can’t blame Marketing and PR people for wanting to control everything. They’re asked to look over something that’s out of their control to begin with: How people think and feel about their company and it’s products. Not to mention, in the Enterprise there’s a ton […]
It was a big kick in the pants to be singled out yesterday on ReadWriteWeb’s “The New Robert Scobles: Seven leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists Today.” It’s funny, even though I come from big, traditional companies Jive’s culture and the fact we use Clearspace everyday makes my engagement in the market seem very normal. […]
Wouldn’t you know it, if I just would have waited a wee bit longer some smart people would have saved me hours of time. For those of you following I started cut-and-pasting some people’s blogs (male thought leaders and female thought leaders) into Many Eyes in order to create more accurate tag clouds of what […]
I am currently the CMO at Jive Software and a frequent speaker, blogger and work-a-holic. Although I write about social software, my opinions are biased in favor of Jive's collaboration and community solutions. I live in Portland, OR with my wife and two sons.
Copyright ©2008 Sam Lawrence — Views expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer.