About the benefits and potential risks of using cloud-based business-critical applications.
With, of course, a simple and humble proposal on how to both protect your data and maybe create a new revenue stream.
Posts Tagged ‘online’
"Cloud"-ing data ownership
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Marketing and philanthropy
Friday, October 1st, 2010Shifting from yesterday’s focus, something more down to Earth.
It is Friday, so just a short comment and a couple of ideas that I used in the past for practical uses.
If you are on Facebook, I think that more than once in a while you saw companies offering to donate to a cause if you buy their products.
Patterns in communication: online identities
Sunday, September 12th, 2010As it befits a rainy Sunday, a short online article about being online.
But, as this month the main line of articles (”Change2010″) is built around the “patterns” theme, I will shift the focus from just being online, to… being online, i.e. from the status of being on the online systems, to the choice of how to be there.
So, where should I start? Identity only is a “fluid” concept- almost anybody I know has multiple identity.
Real-life enterprise 2.0: startup support
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009This short article is about making “Enterprise 2.0″ a real-life experience.
To simplify: taking what you do now, and move it online, with benefits, not costs.
But before discussing the detailed approach, a short description of how I came to develop this approach.
(PS If you copy-and-paste the text of this article, except the “post-scriptum”… it is exactly 1000 words- I am trying to reduce my writings to 2-minutes bites 
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Communicating online/offline: a quick reference
Friday, September 11th, 2009If you read this blog once in a while, you probably remember the announce that I posted on 2009-04-22: “Social Networking: First Book
At the time, I added only the link to the printed version.
This article is really what I could call a “meta-article”: an article about articles.
With links and references not just to material published in this blog, but also material that I published elsewhere, and bibliographical references.
(dis)integrating corporate communication
Monday, July 13th, 2009Do you know what is outsourcing? If not, have a look on wikipedia.
But if you do: when and how do you define what to outsource?
You can search on this blog, and you will find plenty of articles where I discussed various issues related to downsizing and outsourcing, both on the business and corporate culture side.
this article is focused on something else, that is visible in my CV, but even more in my pre-banking (i.e. pre-1987) and non-profit activities.
If you have no time: go for the conclusions 
Building a cross-media presence
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Over the last few years you heard often the word “format”, when referring to TV, movies (usually along with the word “franchise”).
This article will try to use two examples that I created, to show different approaches to a cross-media format for the XXI century- or: building a cross-media presence.
One that is not focused on converting the public into a passive viewer.
After the May 2009 experiment, the daily delivery of the draft script of a series called GMN2009 (”Genome, Mind Mapping, Neural Networks”), a new step.
As part of my experiments in communication, I created a format 10-4-20: The Game Language (WGA Registered 1366431).
Both formats are built to be cross-media, and as a living experiment, encompassing both the usual format purpose (live game), and also potential online, gaming, and other uses.
The concept? To give a showcase on how a cross-media for the XXI century can be created not only to convert each TV viewer into a dumb idiot, but also to spur innovation and creativity.
The main section of this article is the Examples: 10-4-20- a gaming format – details.
But I suggest that you read also at least the introduction What is a format? What is a franchise? And a YouTube promo? if you do not have experience with cultural change and format creation.
If you are just interested in applying the concepts, read the introduction and Next steps: sharing the process, where I explain how I am currently thinking to apply the guidelines set in my articles Democratic technology access and A virtual news agency
A virtual news agency
Monday, July 6th, 2009If you were to visit a news organization, say, in late 1970s, you would have seen a room with the constant chattering of teletype machines.
Every once in a while, a line would appear with a catchy title, followed by few more lines.
I remember that it was called “strillo d’agenzia” in Italian (I was but a kid, tagging along with my father).
Recently, I have been supporting few pro-bono startups.
In this short post, I would like to focus on a simple issue: layering your online information, taking a page from 1970s news agencies and organizations.
Democratic technology access
Monday, June 29th, 2009I just wanted to share with all those that I am supporting (or preparing to support) pro-bono another step in my plan that could, maybe, become useful in the future to our common activities
my purpose? I found wasteful and boring to repeat what I already did; it is much more interesting and useful to create something new, or use a framework to build new ideas and services
but that is, in the end, the OpenSource spirit
more democratic than most of our other form of cooperation 
XXI Century libraries and search engines
Thursday, May 21st, 2009XXI century encyclopedias and knowledge processing.
How Google, WolframAlpha, Wikipedia, and Eurostat process a query.
Or: models of knowledge processing and distribution.
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