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Electricity inspires me

Chris Sparshott — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:50:33 +0000

Can IT help consumers save 15% off their electricity bill?

Can IT reduce the amount of investment in the electricity grid and push this money elsewhere? (pdf)

Can IT help reduce waste in terms of green house gases and consumer consumption?

The answer seems to be yes, well a maybe anyway. This new low impact video from IBM tells a story about the start of making smarter utility grids (electricity and water) and evolving to smarter cities, pretty inspiring stuff.

Social Software is exploding

Chris Sparshott — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:03:11 +0000

I think social software usage is exploding. Infact i don;t think, I know. As I cast my eye over the number of new Lotus Connections customers I think wow! I also think that it shows that companies are ready for tools which modify and enhance employee engagement and sow the seeds for cultural change.

Energy for you – Smarter Planet

Chris Sparshott — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:31:05 +0000

I am the guy that is slightly arrogant and disparaging about videos especially those of the viral kind. I just wanted to post this video from YouTube because I enjoyed it.

Together we can work smarter

Chris Sparshott — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:05:03 +0000

Together we can work smarter goes the tag line of this new promotional document from IBM’s collaboration software brand Lotus. Its a nice document that can be freely distributed to those interested in the types of benefits IBM and Lotus can deliver to clients.

Have a read and download form Scribd!

We can work smarter

Web 2.0 for Business = profiling

Chris Sparshott — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:30:00 +0000

I was chatting to Donald brown of Brown House fame yesterday about some of the presentations I had recently created e.g. University 2.0, Universities and Social Networking, Twitter and the Telcos and a couple of IBM internal presentation such as Innovation for Web 2.0 Technical Sales and Future of the Media industry and it struck me that all I am really doing is looking at an industry and applying some thought to come up with how I think Web 2.0 effects those industries.

I discovered that as I apply a scenario to one industry I can also apply it to another industry – its like applying an architectural pattern………… So where is all this leading?

I think that for the Corporations Web 2.0 is about the profile.

The profile has two aspects, the person or individual and the activity they are doing.

Person:
1. Measure participation
emails, IM, blog entries, comments made, wiki updates, your content, rating of content

2. Measure interactions
while doing 1 above who are you interacting with, how much and what about?

Activity:
1. What are you doing
Twitter-esk type updates, I am walking down Queen street just passing the Newsagents.

2. What is the environment, where, temperature, weather, location
Its raining, the wind is up its 11am (the person could do with a coffee!)

If we combined all this information we have a possibility to understand the needs, wants and desires of a person at any given moment.

In IBM speak we have a research product called Atlas which is part of the Lotus Connections suite which starts to do this for enterprises – its like LinkedIn on steroids. As we move forward more tools will be needed to sift through all of a persons “participation and events” to create a more meaningful profile.

Once we have this profile we are then in a very powerful position to sell services and products.

So, Web 2.0 for the enterprise is real about user profiling.

(presentation to follow although it may be a week or so as I am in China next week with my head firmly wedged on the grind stone)