social computing

This morning I read about JP Rangaswami’s open email system in a post by Stowe Boyd. JP has
opened access to his email to his staff. By treating his email as an open forum, he has found that his associates are more involved in his interactions with others. He has found that they can use this […]

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Jeff Pulver’s “question of the day” for today is “How often do you go unwired?”
In my case, almost never — but the “almost” part of that answer allows me to say that I’ve been unwired for much of the last week. I gave readings Saturday and Sunday evenings with my old friend and fellow poet, […]

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Last week I wrote about a Wall Street Journal article chronicling the conflicts that globalization has led to at SAP (full text of the WSJ article here). We can expect more problems of this ilk as companies employ Enterprise 2.0 tools to ease global collaboration and social networking.
Shai Agassi, who left SAP recently, was quoted […]

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In a series of posts, Shai Agassi has taken up the subject of enterprise software, the third generation on his blog. It’s essential reading.
In his first post, Shai “looked at the following four layers in the stack: Store, Compute, Messaging, Presentation” and saw the following characteristics for the new generation:

Storage moves to some combination of […]

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Hylton Joliffe reminds us that…
…the Enterprise 2.0 Rave is now a virtual event that can be attended, for free, by all who register. The program, organized by Longworth Venture Partners and sponsored by FAST, kicks off at 2 p.m. on Monday in discussions led by Euan Semple, John Musser, Jevon MacDonald, Susan Scrupski, Joe McKendrick, […]

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I love this presentation. Great for people who want a quick intro to “enterprise 2.0″ — really to the whole of social computing.

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Soon there will be something here. Right now, not.
That’s right — the words you are reading are an illusion. Real words will replace them soon.

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More about me at my website, tommandel.com. Here’s an overview:
Tom Mandel is an experienced entrepreneur and strategist. He founded Screenporch.com (later Caucus, Inc.), the first venture-funded social software company in 1996. Customers included IBM, Hewlett Packard, Warner-Lambert (now merged with Pfizer), Merck and many others.
Tom also founded Mighty Acorn and Suplion and has helped launch […]

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