Shop.org Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Don Tapscott began his keynote this morning with a tall order: convincing the audience that the “net generation” (ie: the generation ranging from those in their early teens to late 20s) will be the most powerful force affecting retail for the next decade. By the time his keynote had ended, I’d venture to guess that [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The fastest way to restore confidence to America's bludgeoned financial services industry is through unprecedented transparency amongst all players, says Don Tapscott, influential business strategist with nGenera Corporation and co-author of the best-selling business book "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything." "Rebuilding trust takes...
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams This book is about the new world of shared digital information production. It has a lot of spin and hype in the writing, but at the same time it reveals many new ideas. The book is quite entertaining to read and well written. It has a nice exuberant feeling to the writing which is clearly tech evangelist...
Shop.org Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Don Tapscott’s very first presentation on his new book didn’t disappoint. In the second keynote session of the day, Tapscott took us through a lively overview of the proposition he outlines in Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Retail and Marketing. In both his presentation and his book, Tapscott sets out to convince [...]
Wirearchy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Yesterday during a regular pass-through of a favourite blog, I ran across this mention of Clive Thompson’s "The See-Through CEO", an article in Wired from March 2007. I clicked through the link in Euan’s blog post, read the Wired article, appreciated it (with my usual thought about the ubiquity of Don Tapscott’s marketing efforts - tho’ [...]
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
... Comes Everybody Nick Carr, The Big Switch Cass Sunstein, Infotopia Cass Sunstein, Republic.com Don Tapscott, Wikinomics Todd Gitlin, Media Unlimited Kevin Kelly & Wired mag in general Alex Iskold, “ The Danger of Free ” Mike Masnick & TechDirt blog Mark Cuban And here’s a rough sketch of the major beliefs or key themes that separate these two schools of thinking about the impact of the Internet...
Dave Burke (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
I was looking forward to reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything after skimming through it at our local Barnes and Noble. Authors Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams wrote about the new collaborative Web and how businesses can benefit from tapping into that collaborative creation process. Yes, they talked about Wikipedia a bit, but really very little. Maybe because I read...
