I am a co-founder at StartupNorth and was previously the Founder of Firestoker.com, to go further back than that you will have to go to my LinkedIn Profile.
Today we are announcing a set of global Social Business Technology Alliances which are part of a broader push to develop implementation services in the new field of Social Business software.
For a great summary, read Pete’s post, David’s or Kate’s.
You can also read my full post on dachisgroup.com, or take a look at the press release.
If you are interested in finding out more about to work with these vendors, with Open Source software or custom developed solutions, please get in touch.
Posted earlier today on Leveraging Ideas:
I think there is a disconnect here.
What has made App Stores successful is that they do control the transactional part of the relationship, so they can get the kind of margins you need to make them viable. Force.com generates subscription revenue, takes a cut of app sales, and ties customers deeper in to their own platform with each app install (resulting in higher long-term lock in).
If you don’t have those advantages, you are not an “app store” as people are discussing them, you are a directory.
Oneforty is not an app store, it is a directory of Twitter apps. It is simply positioning itself as an app store. Oneforty cannot offer developers the value-add they need, nor can they offer end-users the unified and integrated experience that they love in real app stores. It is a tough spot to be in.
Building a directory of twitter apps is a much different proposition than Salesforce building force.com and I am surprised people are confusing the two so easily.
The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity. Just a few days ago Oliver Marks announced that he was joining us, and before that we announced our acquisition of Headshift.
Today Dachis Group is launching a new website, and I am excited about it for a few reasons. The primary one is that there is now a place where Dachis Group can share Social Business Design thinking. There is a lot of material on there that people will be able to explore and I hope that it helps get some new conversations going about Social Business Design.
The other thing that I am excited about is that the new site has the beginnings of some new ideas for how Dachis Group will grow as a Social Business. If you go to the front page of the site you will see a stream of information about what we are doing. Some people won’t believe that this is a live and unmoderated view of what we are doing. It is unlike anything else out there and represents a glimpse at the Dynamic Signal of our organization.
As this part of the website grows and becomes part Collaboration space and part Laboratory, it will offer our customers new ways to interact and engage with us and other Social Business Design thinkers.
So, please take a minute to check out the new site and post feedback here if you have any questions for me. You can also download our Social Business Design whitepaper if you would like a more in-depth view of what Social Business Design is and can mean to your business.
A few days ago I wrote about Jevons’ Paradox and “The Attention Question”: The idea that we do not need to create tools that take up more of our time and attention, but instead we need to start building social tools in business that focus first on productivity and results, and on being social as a secondary goal.
Robert Scoble really nails the same point in his post about Google Wave and its email pedigree. When I first had a chance to use Google Wave a few weeks ago I said that I thought it felt a bit regressive.
Is Google Wave falling victim to Jevons’ Paradox?
The search for a better general collaboration tool continues and a lot of vendors are feeling the pressure to build better and better tools to allow people to connect, share and collaborate. Google Wave does this well. Take an existing set of tools such as IM and Email, layer some social networking thought on top of them and open up some collaboration spaces for people to create content.
My experience with Google Wave has been that it is an attention black hole. Part of this is a result of the fact that Email and IM are the primary paradigms on which the user experience is based. The other is that Google Wave is another example of directionless connectedness. Interaction without intent.
You can argue that this is the power of Google Wave and email. The idea that the user is given the tools and it is up to them to figure out what to do with them. I would argue that Jevons’ Paradox still stands, and that these tools will create efficiency in interacting, but not in actual business process or value creation.
Dennis Howlett says that “effectiveness not efficiency has to be the goal. We’re already moderately efficient in our processes” and he is right.
Breakthroughs in effectiveness are not going to be mass-purpose tools, they will be specific tools which allow the user to be more effective than before by using social concepts to make use of the efficiencies that are already in existence.