by Hylton Jolliffe
May 7, 2007 at 9:53 am · Filed under
house business
As you’ll see if you survey the surroundings or pop over from your RSS feed to the site, we’ve instituted a re-design of fastforwardblog.com.
A few more pieces and new features will fall into place over the coming days but you’re looking at the general look and feel of FASTforwardblog 2.0. Please feel free to comment on it as well as make suggestions for elements you’d like to see included. Also let us know if you see any funkiness or features not working by emailing us at fastforwardblog@gmail.com.
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by Hylton Jolliffe
April 17, 2007 at 10:50 am · Filed under
EIU Report, Enterprise 2.0, Sponsored Post, house business
The EIU report that you’ve heard mentioned here numerous times in recent months as well as at FASTForward ‘07 has just been released. The study, as described below, included a survey of more than 400 senior execs as well as interviews with individuals responsible for Enterprise 2.0 initiatives and implementation.
From the email from FAST that went out this morning:
“The report takes the Economist presentation at FASTforward ‘07 to greater detail and provides an interesting view into this fast-changing phenomenon. The report, based on original survey-based research, uncovers the current perspectives of senior managers, spanning from their understanding of the definition of ‘Web 2.0′, to the specific ways it will impact their firm’s revenues, expenses, and operations. Download the paper now.
And, in case you missed Jeanette Borzo, Contributing Editor, Economist Intelligence Unit, present at FASTforward ’07, we also invite you to Download the video presentation.
About the report:
Serious business: Web 2.0 goes corporate, a newly released Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by FAST, examines how Web 2.0 is being applied – and will be applied in the near future – by large corporations, across a wide range of industries, throughout the world.
The report is based on a survey of 406 senior executives, as well as interviews with Citigroup, JWT, Global Crossing and other major corporations.
Register for access to the report and stay tuned for commentary from our contributors as well as from FAST (we’ve added a new category for all report-related posts).
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by Hylton Jolliffe
January 18, 2007 at 8:48 am · Filed under
house business
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sponsored post
 For those of you considering coming to FASTforward ‘07, to be held in San Diego from February 7-9, FAST is offering a special discount to readers of this blog: a price of $495, $400 off the going rate.
The skinny again: the conference is designed to help decision-makers better understand Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 tools and apps, and features a top flight cast of speakers and session leaders including Ray Lane, John Battelle, Chris Anderson, Tim O’Reilly, Andrew McAfee and others. More about it, including the full agenda and speaker roster here.
In addition, and we hope of particular interest to you all: the majority of the contributors to this blog will be there! We’ll be gathering informally throughout the conference and will, if there’s interest, aim to have a lunch or dinner to which you all are invited (details to follow). If you’d like us to schedule a bloggers’ get-together please email me at hyltonj@gmail.com.
Now, back to that discount… To take advantage of the offer, head to the conference registration page and, in the second step of registration, plug in this code - FASTBLOG1 - when prompted for a promo code.
Feel free to spread the word to colleagues and contacts who’d be interested in FASTforward ‘07 - we hope to see you there!
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by Hylton Jolliffe
January 11, 2007 at 10:58 am · Filed under
event announcements, house business
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sponsored post
We hope you’ve been enjoying the FASTforward Blog. We’ve been thrilled to see the positive reviews, growing traffic, and healthy conversation playing out in both the blog and the comments and hope you’ll continue to tune over the next few weeks as we gear up for the event that inspired the blog: FASTforward ‘07.
To bring you up to date on the conference and its impressive and growing slate of speakers, if you haven’t seen info on it yet: the event, like this blog, is sponsored by FAST and is designed to help decision-makers better understand Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 applications and how search is powering a new generation of tools and technologies to help companies organize, share, and exploit knowledge, innovate, socialize, and compete.
The location: San Diego. The dates: February 7-9. Amongst the speakers: some of the field’s foremost thinkers and doers including Ray Lane, Tim O’Reilly, John Battelle, Andrew McAfee and many others.
To find out more and register visit www.fastforward07.com |
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by Hylton Jolliffe
December 19, 2006 at 1:08 pm · Filed under
house business
As a handful of you know, this blog has been gearing up over the past week or two as we prep for its launch. Well, as of yesterday we’re live and looking forward to what should be a compelling and wide-ranging discussion of Enterprise 2.0 applications and issues over the next eight weeks.
(A little context: this blog, which is sponsored by FAST Search & Transfer, was conceived and developed as a companion blog to FASTforward 07, which will take place in San Diego from February 7-9. The conference, like this blog, aims to explore how a new generation of enterprise appilcations and capabilities are enabling companies to better capture, harness, analyze, and search data, foster communication and collaboration, and connect individuals and ideas within companies. More info on the event, at which Ray Lane, John Battelle, Tim O’Reilly and others will be speaking, can be found here.)
Here in the blog we’ve convened an outstanding crew of blogging contributors who will be exploring the broad range of ideas and applications that are falling under the Enterprise 2.0 umbrella. They’re all longtime observers and players in the space, have authored numerous books and articles as well as speak frequently on related topics, and collectively are uniquely qualified to be hosts for what will surely be an informed and spirited discussion over the coming weeks.
In a subsequent post I’ll introduce the respective contributors. For now we encourage you to jump in and join the conversation - leaving comments or emailing our contributors with questions or topics you’d like to see them tackle. They are a tremendous resource and we encourage you to take advantage of their collective expertise, experience, and perspective. Also, if you have friends, colleagues, customers or other contacts that would be interested in this blog, please let them know about it.
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