I can’t send one of my clients large files via YouSendIt, a free online file sharing service. Why? Her company blocks it. So when we share videos with this client we have to burn the videos onto a DVD and mail them to her. Even with fastest delivery times, it can take up to 24-hours [...]
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Tag Archives: Forrester Research
Social Media Grows Like Jack’s Beanstalk
August 27, 2009
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Here’ s the staggering headline from Forrester Research this week: “4 out of 5 online Americans are active in either creating, participating in or reading some form of social content at least once a month.” Can you say: Whoa? Forrester found that most of the activity was mostly due to social networking sites like Facebook, [...]
Read more5 Reasons Email Will Become Obsolete
June 23, 2009
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It’s only a matter of time. The inbox – and email – are already beginning to fade into obsolesce. And within the next decade email may join the Bali Tiger and the King Island Emu on the extinction list. Forrester Research last week released a report that outlines a big reason why. By 2014, companies [...]
Read moreGuess What? Blogging is Hard Work
June 10, 2009
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In its State of the Blogosphere report for 2008, Technorati provided the numbers that tell the tale. Technorati tracks 133 million blogs 74 million posted within the last 120 days 1.5 million posted within the last 7 days 900,000 posted within the last 24 hours Notice the enormous gap between posting within 120 days and [...]
Read moreWhy Aren’t More People Using RSS?
June 5, 2009
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The problem with RSS might be its name (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication). I was at a meeting recently with a busy executive and the topic turned to RSS. I asked him if he was a fan. He shook his head. “I don’t have time for it,” he said. At first, I thought he [...]
Read moreSlow Down Or Risk Blowing by the Mainstream
May 20, 2009
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Is the social web moving too fast for the mainstream? Has the speed of the creation and destruction cycle gotten too fast (look at what is happening to newspapers)? Are new and exciting innovations being ignored by the mainstream because they fear to invest too much time and resources into technologies that might be flash [...]
Read moreHighTalking: Josh Bernoff Talks Social Media
January 30, 2009
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Josh Bernoff, vice president and a principal analyst at Forrester Research, is co-author of one of my favorite books on social media: Groundswell. If you haven’t read it – you should. It’s one of those books where you’re constantly slapping your forehead and muttering, “Of course!” Josh is one of the most highly regarded technology [...]
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