UWM Use this category for anything related to IT for Competitive Advantage.
From Engineering.com
While this is a fun time waster. What does it tell us about the future of interactive technology? Will 3D TV etc. be big? What does this mean for business? How can you use the emerging 3D technology to create competitive advantage?
What do you think?
From CNN
Technology has enabled the “officeless” generation. Do you think this will continue to grow as a way of working? Will this just become an extension of our offices and work anywhere/everywhere world? Is this a good thing?
Should we as managers encourage and plan for this work-style?
What do you think?
Thanks Naif
These two videos have Pranav Mistry explaining how the Sixth Sense Came to be at TED India.
What do you think?
From Fast Company
Check out the graphs and trends.
From the article “Interestingly, it wasn’t Apple that Garland viewed as the most important name in music, even though the company’s iPods, iPhones, and iTunes indicate otherwise. “YouTube is increasingly the category killer,” argued Garland. “When people ask me what is the biggest name in music in my opinion, they want me to say Apple. I usually answer: YouTube.”
The music business is shifting. It is setting the stage for our business models in “everything” to change. Products? Services? Can you have a product without a service, or, for that matter, a service that does not somehow connect to the web? There are lessons to learn in marketing, product development, strategy, information technology, and just about everything community and commercial.
From the article ” Pandora now represents 1.7% of all radio listening–really a shocking figure to think about.”. Wow, FREE service, possibly paid service overtaking the ad space? Lessons to be learned here?
Choice rules. Custom selection of music is killing “album” sales. From the article, ”The music business historically has been built around albums,” explained Silverman. “This album-centrism is like saying the sun revolves around the Earth. We don’t listen to albums now; we listen to collections of songs.”
What are the Lessons to be learned from this article?
From Fortune Magazine
This blog looks like a great way to keep up with all things GOOGLE from a business and technology standpoint. I will be checking it often.
What do you think? Any other sources so dedicated besides GOOGLE itself?
From Harvard Business Review Blog
Do your Knowledge Workers have a Bitsmith?
This post presents a wonderful concept that points out the need for specialized tools for the knowledge era. That of a “Bitsmith”. Bitsmiths, according to the post ” are people who have deep knowledge of both the work content and the tools used to support the work. In other words, they are almost as expert in derivatives or computer design as they are in computer-programming languages. Because they understand both the domain and the tools, bitsmiths can take an idea from concept to implementation quickly .”
The article makes the case that high performance teams need to have a “bitsmith” just as many towns in the “old west” had blacksmiths to create the tolls they needed.
What do you think of this concept?
From “Digital Society”
From the blog post “The MAC address which can uniquely identify a person’s laptop, smartphone, or any other device with 802.11 Wi-Fi capability”.
What do you think? What will you do?
Thank you Amita.
Video from Wall Street Journal Online
Google Execs Prosecuted in Italy
This (February 2010) video brings us some news, but it also points out how powerful social media can be and the concerns over privacy.
It also brings to light the power of governments (and their courts) along with differing opinions of “freedom of information”.
What do you think? Should GOOGLE Execs be responsible?
Thanks Hugh
This article is from GOOGLE
From the article ” Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists.”
I have always enjoyed the doodles, but did not know the history. One of my Favorites is featured in the article, Einstein’s Birthday
Perhaps you might submit a suggestion. Check out the history and pick a favorite.
Thank you Hugh
From the site of the National Science Foundation
Birth of the Internet Interactive Presentation
This interactive timeline has some great pictures, text and video segments that talk about the history of the development of the internet.
What was your favorite part? Mine is in the 1990’s section. “Tools to Untangle the Internet”. Development of the Web Browser. Check out how the “number of computers on the internet grows” Also, take a look at the sequential map of the growth of the internet from 1969 through 2007.
From Corporate Report Wisconsin
Thanks Mary for sharing this article with me.
We have been discussing the use of social media in the marketing mix. We had been looking for specific examples of success with including Twitter in the marketing mix and we find two in this article.
From the article “The Tweets drove recipients to a Web site where they could receive more information,“We scheduled 14 surgeries because of that Twitter cast.”
Here is one example of what appears to be a pretty good ROI on a social media investment.
What examples do you have?
From Corporate Reports Wisconsin
The survey of companies in the “New North” supports that Social media is on the rise in Wisconsin among businesses.
From the article “Of those who do use social media, they tend to use it to connect with/communicate with others in the community or their industry (39 percent), to connect with/ communicate with clients (31 percent) and to gather information or research specific topics (27 percent). Just 22 percent indicated they use social media to find or connect with potential new clients.”
The article also states that of the companies using social media 79% feel the networking has benefited their firms.
Is your organization using social media? What are you using? Is it helping? How?
From OPEN Small Business
10 Small Business Social Media Resources
The link above has comments and links to some really great (IMHO) ideas for small business’ use of Social Media.
As for adding Social Media to the marketing mix, fantastic!
What do you think?
From Baseline Magazine
Slideshow makes a series of observations “What’s Wrong with Microsoft”
Do you agree?
From Marketing Power (American Marketing Association)
Social Media Virtual Conference — February 25
Check it out.
From Government Computer News
Thanks Hugh
Mobile phones are used to access the Army’s portal for soldiers to access information from their Knowledge Online Portal.
“The Army Knowledge Online portal, a repository of online information, distance-learning tools, e-mail and other resources for 2.6 million Army users. The Web-based service is now part of a broader service known as Defense Knowledge Online.”
Mini solar chargers and video goggles are also used.
“Army officials are tapping into the ingenuity of its young workforce and responding to their predisposition for smarter gadgets at the same time by developing an array of Go Mobile devices — new communications and conferencing devices that can fit into a soldier’s pocket while going easy on the service’s pocketbook.”
Sounds like we should all be following in the Army’s footsteps for our firms. What do you think?
Thank you Wendy
Home Depot 3D Interactive Gift Card VIDEO Be patient it takes time
Home Depot gets into Augmented Reality with its Gift Card.
Think it will sell more gift cards?
From Google Blog
This video explains how Personalized Search works. Are we getting closer to Web 3.0?
What do you think?
From Baseline Magazine
Facebook Activities Cost Jobs — Slideshow
The slideshow stands on its own.
What do you think?
