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social software

This is a video of Cisco CEO, John Chambers giving a superb presentation at MIT last year.
In the talk, John talks up the rise of video as a tool for collaboration in the enterprise, mentions some of Cisco’s work in China after the earthquake there, and talks up Smart Grids (“Smart Grids are $billion opportunities”). [...]

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In my last post I postulated that social software could be used to capture people’s lifestream information and that this could be used by companies to help calculate their carbon footprint.
The case I put forward was more suited for the increasing numbers of people working from home. However, I neglected to point out another painfully [...]

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I come from a Social Media background. I use blogs, Social Networks, Microblogs, Photo Sharing sites, Video Sharing sites, Livecasting apps, Social bookmarking sites etc. everyday. I generate a constant stream of updates about things happening in my life which can be followed via RSS or on my Friendfeed page (a feed aggregator) or on [...]

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I’m busy helping to build Akvo at the moment, an open source wiki and set of collaboration and finance tools that pool the knowledge that already exists in different NGO and government silos, to help the world’s poorest communities quickly build water and sanitation facilities. It’s worth doing – today over 1.1 billion people are [...]

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Come Give Me A Hugg

by monkchips on September 6, 2007 · 1 comment

in social software

One of the central interests of Greenmonk is the use of social software to change behaviours and potentially improve information flows, so I was very interested when I came across Hugg, “It’s Digg for Green” (via Kurtz).
For those of you that don’t know Digg is a web service that allows users to dictate the [...]

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