So far on the #BlogBus tour

At the end of Day 2 of the #BlogBus tour I am beginning to see more clearly the opportunities as well as the limitations of innovation in the Valley. You can access my liveblogs of the companies visited today as follows: Following Causes: a liveblog of our session with Co-Founder and VP of Causes, Chris Chan Storytelling for ...

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Wherefore art thou, Silicon Valley?

Women in IT

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself. So, with a dose of cognitive dissonance do I ...

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Speech to text to collective collaborations

I'm liveblogging the final session of Day 1 of the Blog Bus tour.  We're looking at how Orange Silicon Valley directs and amplifies tacit knowledge within and beyond the organisation. The knowledge transfer team within Orange is tasked with ensuring that interviews and conversations with the smartest people in Silicon Valley get spread to the widest ...

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Innovation investment for Orange

I'm in the afternoon session for the Orange business day as part of the #BlogBus tour.  I'm liveblogging this session so please keep renewing the page for updates. __________________________________ ClusterStor We're introduced to the relationship between Orange and Xyratex, the latter being a data storage solutions company.  Soumya notes that the challenge for Orange was to deliver very ...

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Beginning the #BlogBus tour

I'm here at Orange in Silicon Valley for the beginning of the #BlogBus tour.  We're beginning with a presentation from the CEO of Orange Silicon Valley, Georges Nahon.  I'm liveblogging this session, so keep reloading the page for updates. ________________________________ Nahon begins with focusing on what Oraneg is doing in Sikicon Valey. came here 10 years ago, ...

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Global Access Partners: National Economic Review

I'm liveblogging this event today from NSW Parliament House.  We begin with a keynote from the Minister for Trade in Australia, Craig Emerson.  This session is called 'Restructuring the Australian Economy in the New Asian Century'.  ______________________________ It was not until 1957 when Menzies signed the Commerce Agreement with Japan (controversially at the time) who truly began ...

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Keeping up with the JJsphere

Comments from Wikimedia commons

I've been at it again, blogging away on other sites and not updating here. So here are a few links to recent blog posts. As usual, all feedback appreciated. 1. 1000heads - Forget what you can sell, ask what you can give: In which I talk about social as a gift economy and consider the supposed ...

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Orange Blog Bus tour is GO!

[En] San Francisco Blogger Tour presentation from Orange In 2 weeks I'll be getting started with the Orange Blog Bus tour of Silicon Valley along with Glenn Le Santo, Dr Sue Black, Julien Fourgeaud and many others.  I'm delighted to be part of the crew, not just because I'll be in the company of ...

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To request a retweet, or not to request a retweet?

twitter

That is, indeed, the question. SocialMediaInfluence.com has an infographic up at the moment, talking about how to amplify your tweets.  The infographic is based on an earlier report by BuddyMedia on strategies for effective tweeting.  By the numbers alone, both the report and the infographic are accurate.  But the problem is that this simplistic form of ...

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Help needed: how can I improve this formula?

Question

I need some feedback on the following and am genuinely looking at ways to improve this formula to better explain the effects of content sharing on reputation. I've been thinking about a way to calculate brand reputation online with a mathematical formula. Now I know off the bat that reputation is something that defies calculation. Indeed, ...

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