Comments on: Adoption Issues http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/01/29/adoption-issues/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tom Mandel http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/01/29/adoption-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Tom Mandel Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:23:35 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/01/29/adoption-issues/#comment-715 At Connectbeam, we are finding that many enterprises have made the business case for themselves; I talk about this in <a href="http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/01/29/an-interview-with-tom-mandel/" rel="nofollow">my interview</a> with Kathleen. Adoption is going to pick up in the 2d quarter, and by the end of this calendar year there will be a nice fledgling market happening. Of course, solutions that somehow compete with email face the ;9 times better' problem. But, not all solutions compete with email. Social bookmarking is more likely to lead the adoption curve, because it is indeed 9 times better than most ways of finding and organizing information! I have more to say about this -- but a good bit of it is in the podcast with Kathleen. Perhaps there'll be occasion to discuss these issues when folks have listened in on the interview? At Connectbeam, we are finding that many enterprises have made the business case for themselves; I talk about this in my interview with Kathleen. Adoption is going to pick up in the 2d quarter, and by the end of this calendar year there will be a nice fledgling market happening.

Of course, solutions that somehow compete with email face the ;9 times better’ problem. But, not all solutions compete with email. Social bookmarking is more likely to lead the adoption curve, because it is indeed 9 times better than most ways of finding and organizing information!

I have more to say about this — but a good bit of it is in the podcast with Kathleen. Perhaps there’ll be occasion to discuss these issues when folks have listened in on the interview?

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