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Future Business
http://swanthinks.wordpress.com
Discussing what I perceive to be the future of business. Primarily in the areas of technology integration, collaboration, and knowledge management.
Recent Posts
Customer Development
I am in the early stages of a new start-up idea so I am poking my head up to look around for the latest best practices before getting underway. I was referred by some friends to Steve Blank’s idea he calls Customer Development. It’s...
#KMers Chat Launch
The KMers.org site was ready for beta launch last week in time for the KMWorld09 conference. Today we launched the weekly #KMers twitter chat. I would guesstimate that we had about 15-20 people contributing to the Twitter Chat which means we pr...
2-5-1 Storytelling
Lucky enough to arrive at KMWorld the night before the main portion of the conference, I had the pleasure of catching a Nancy Dixon session that evening called “High Impact Storytelling“. Although it was not a competition, there was o...
Meeting Format – High Impact Storytelling
At the recent KMWorld09 conference in San Jose, CA; Nancy Dixon ran a session on the evening before the main conference began that was the true essence of teaching by doing rather than just teaching by telling called “High Impact Storytelling...
An open letter to the organizers of KMWorld09
Thanks for creating the environment where I can catch up with some old friends and meet lots of interesting new ones. We used KMWorld09 as a platform to launch the new http://KMers.org community and it was very successful in that regard. As request...
Lists and Waves
The fact that Twitter, Twitter Lists and Google Wave exist warms my heart. They are tools that generate their own innovation buzz eco-system and drive what this blog is all about: Future Business. Foundational tools like these, along with open...

