Month: February 2007

Jeff Bezos vs Bill Gates

I’ve given presentations on “creating passionate users” at both Amazon and Microsoft. 2 big companies, 2 CEOs. Guess which CEO has been to the talk? And he didn’t just sit there, he participated. His hand shot up when I asked a question. He quit fondling his Blackberry. But far more importantly–he asked an amazing question. then he asked, “How can I do more for our reviewers? These people do so much, and work so hard–especially the ones who do a lot of reviews — and the ‘Top Reviewer’ badges are not enough.” I was speechless. Not because I couldn’t think of an answer, but because I couldn’t believe someone this far up the food chain would even think–let alone care about this.

Japan racism

“good old fashioned racism” in Japan is pretty deep rooted and held by people in high places in government and corporate Japan. I believe this is one of the most important and fundamental ailments of Japanese society today

what is it with the xenophobic & racist japanese?

Enterprise Social Analytics

We leave a trail of breadcrumbs with every enterprise search query, request for information from a colleague, email, or other declaration. Who are we talking to, about what? Who are the smartest people in the company, and who are the most helpful? where are groups that agree with the strategy, and are acting accordingly by sharing relevant content? In an information economy people are the real life-blood. Information is only as valuable as the network it supports. But how do you follow the breadcrumbs we find in our system logs?

IBM has discovered SNA