An interesting announcement from Rentokil today that they are moving 35000 users to Google apps… I think this validates that Cloud Computing is not a thing of the future, it’s here today and is delivering value to business right now. Too many people think it’s something that will be happening, sometime in the future…

Although they [...]

LocalGovCamp, an unconference for local government,  happened this last weekend (Saturday 20th June) – what an astonishing turnout -more than 130 people from Local Govt came along on a Saturday to talk about the future of local government, citizen engagement, smarter working and more…
Here is an interview by @davidwilcox with @carlhaggerty and @robgray (me) at [...]

On Friday we had a round table discussion related to enterprise social networking (some may refer to enterprise 2.0). Some best practices from real world projects emerged, and there were some excellent questions that raised the discussion level.
Thanks to Bertrand for contributing to this list. Check out his advice on this blog post
For those unfamiliar [...]

On Nov 13th we had a launch event for blueKiwi 2009 in Paris. I was amazed that we got 400 registrations in the first 2 weeks, with place for 200 people. Anyway, a bit of deft eventmanship from the marketing folks meant we had a packed venue and loads of buzz…
We had 2 great opening [...]

We are running an event on 28th November at the IoD in London.
It’s a bit of an introductory session to Enterprise Social Networking / Enterprise 2.0 etc. including some learnings from some of our large corporate projects. These learnings are relevant regardless of the technology that you use.
Register here
(posted by Rob Gray)

I presented at the Butler Group “Enterprise Web 2.0 strategy briefing” event on Nov 4th… during my presentation I did an audience poll where they could vote by SMS.
Unfortunately, I hadn’t refreshed my browser just before the poll and the wifi access went pear-shaped as I was intending to show the results in real-time.
LESSON LEARNED: [...]