Over the last few weeks I had a chance to read a number of interesting
books and articles on transformative trends and technologies and wanted to
share some of my notes. I hope you find them useful and interesting
as well.
Mobile and Social Transforming Power Structures
By 2010, 70 percent of all information generated every year
in the world came from e-mails, online videos, and the World Wide Web. This
dramatic change in the linked technologies of computing and communications is
changing the nature of government and accelerating a diffusion of power. ~ The Future of Power by Joseph Nye
World politics is no longer the sole province of governments thanks to social media and mobile technologies.
The real challenge is acting strategically enough to matter. ~ Social Business By Design
As Facebook and Twitter become as central to workplace
conversation as the company cafeteria, federal regulators are ordering
employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.
Media Transformation Caused by the Internet and Mobility
The Financial Times said it would try to eliminate 35
editorial jobs through voluntary means and add ten jobs as part of its focus on
"digital" and a move away from news to "a networked
business." Lionel Barber, Editor of
the Financial Times, wrote that a trip to Silicon Valley in September had
"confirmed the speed of change" and added, “We must also recognize
that the Internet offers new avenues and platforms for the richer delivery and
sharing of information.”
More from ZDNET, “Google's content production costs are
small and so are its distribution costs, which means it can sell advertising at
very low rates and still make large profits.
The FT, or any type of traditional media organization, cannot compete
against a Silicon Valley media company that can thrive on such low advertising
rates.”
A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project,
found that in the past 12 months, 13 percent of survey participants visited a
library website using a smartphone or tablet.
The overall number of library users has shrunk.
Transforming IT Infrastructures and the Cloud
In a recent survey of 2,000 CIOs, a Gartner report revealed
that the execs' top tech priorities for 2013 include cloud computing in
general, as well as its specific types: software as a service (SaaS),
infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS).
Here are comScore’s Top 10 Burning Digital Issues for 2013:
- Big Date
- e-Commerce
- Social Media
- Shift of Ad Spending to Digital
- Audience Targeting vs. Media Location
- Measuring Digital Media Campaigns
- Growth of Smartphones and Tablets
- Multi-Platform Media Planning and Analysis
- Real-Time Marketing Insights
- Privacy
Kevin Benedict,
Head Analyst for SMAC,
Cognizant
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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
