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- Enterprise 2.0 Investment OpportunityOctober 17
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Not a usual theme for this blog, but thought it might be worth a shot given the types of people reading. Who knows, maybe this blog can be the home to some Enterprise 2.0 deals?!
I’ve been asked if I know anyone interested in buying a majority stake in a growth-stage Enterprise 2.0 company - would probably appeal to an existing software company looking to expand their product suite or get a foothold in Europe.
Ping me a private note at niall@tiggi.com if you want to know more.
- Enterprise 2.0 Presentation SlidesOctober 14
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During my Canadian tour last week, I’m proud to say that I used slides just once at the breakfast for Hill & Knowlton clients. The rest of the sessions were all off the cuff.
In response to numerous requests, I put my slide deck on Slideshare.net. Here they are:
I’m afraid they lose a little without my talking over them. If you’d like me to come explain them to your company, please contact me.
- Nosco: Prediction Market Software for CompaniesOctober 14
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At the Enterprise 2.0 breakfast I held for Hill & Knowlton clients in Toronto last week, someone ask me about tools for capturing ideas from sales people with voting and commenting capabilities. Nothing sprang to mind, but I promised I would do some research.
Seems like a bit of an untapped market to be honest*, but one that hits all the buttons is Nosco (www.nosco.dk) from a Danish firm.
Not only does it allow voting and commenting, but it also allows participants to buy and sell shares in the best ideas and run competitions. For sales teams, I think these kinds of features could be ideal. The software can be hosted securely externally (so up and running quickly) or installed on a customer’s own servers.
* Since posting this, Noam Danon left a comment pointing me to QMarkets, another potential candidate. Any more out there I’m missing?
** Add Consensus Point to your list as well. President David Perry informs me that they “actually started developing prediction markets 15 years ago but things *really* started heating up with The Wisdom of Crowds came out.”
- Destination: CanadaOctober 1
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In the words of my hosts, I’ve “finally realized where the action is” and will be taking the Enterprise 2.0 roadshow to Canada next week.
In what promises to be a whirlwind tour I’ll be speaking to Hill & Knowlton clients and staff in Toronto on Tuesday 7th, followed by beers at Third Tuesday that same evening. On Wednesday I fly to Ottawa and do the same thing all over again, with Third Tuesday in Ottawa on a Wednesday (these Canucks are crazy guys, aren’t they).
It’s a while since I was last in Canada, but seeing that both the literature review and foreword authors for Enterprise 2.0 are both based there, it seems like a fitting place to begin the tour.
The rest of the year currently sees the roadshow moving on to Paris and Finland in November, and Sweden in December.
Promises to be a busy end to 2008.
- What are you working on? Twitter-like tools for the enterpriseSeptember 10
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In Enterprise 2.0, and indeed as early as June last year, I talk about the benefits of internal micro-blogging using enterprise versions of tools like Twitter.
If this is an area of interest to you (and it probably should be), then I strongly recommend you read two posts from Jeremiah Owyang and Neville Hobson.
In List of enterprise microblogging tools: Twitter for the intranet, Jeremiah has started a list of vendor offerings in the area (currently standing at eight). Well worth watching I think.
Neville takes one of the offerings, Yammer, for a test drive in Twitter for the enterprise from Yammer.
Like blogs, wikis and other social software that has gone before, I advise caution. Make sure you know what you want from such tools (and also what you need in terms of security and control) before diving straight in.