Last week’s CBS acquisition of CNET saddened me for a number of reasons. I was VP Marketing there from 1999-2001 and still feel a strong personal connection to the company. It was an innovative company that transformed a lot in 15 years and, in my opinion, lost the chance to redefine media.
The land-grab product […]
This is my second interview. My first was Shel Israel which was a lot of fun. This time, it’s Forrester Analyst Jeremiah Owyang. I need to do more of these so if you have ideas, your recommendations are welcome.
You post multiple blogs a day, constantly refer to resources on Twitter and pump out tons of […]
No dumping
Companies who continue to subscribe to blindly dumping on us will soon find themselves working to publicly undo their mistakes.
Products- You can’t know what we think or want unless you talk to us.
Advertising- Stop launching. You’re not NASA.
Solicitation- Who talks like that? Let’s have a real conversation.
Support- I don’t believe my call is […]
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 […]
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.