Social Sales Revolution: 7 Steps to Get Ahead @Salesforce publishes... GE's $1 Billion Cancer Project: Raising the Bar on Social Business GE’s healthymagination project is setting the pace for cancer care as well as defining what it means to be a social business. Back in September GE announced it would spend $1billion on cancer-related R&D over the next five years. The $100 million healthymagination challenge is a part of that – essentially a crowdsourcing platform to generate new ideas from screening to diagnoses to treatment and care for breast cancer Earlier this week I got a chance to talk with Mike Barber, the GE VP who heads up healthymagination. The fascinating aspect of the project is that the output metrics, what GE gets back on its money, according to Mike, are all related to patients. The hope is for the $1 billion to deliver better care to 10 million patients by 2020, and healthymagination to positively impact 1 million women. The investment though is not just about delivering these noble social objectives. Let’s think how. This new business ecosystem is a way of describing shared value.
From Sushi to Tunisia: A Guide to Swaying Majority Opinion - Hans Villarica - Life A study on network theory finds that the tipping point needed for a committed minority to win over the majority is just 10 percent How do you topple a tyrant or popularize a foreign cuisine? According to a recent study in the journal Physical Review E, mobilizing an unyielding minority of 10 percent may be enough. Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Network Science and Technology Center created and analyzed various models of networks where a minority strived to overtake the majority's opinion. "I'd hesitate to reduce the spread of sushi in America to a formula." — Trevor Corson "The governments of these two countries survived for decades in the past, despite more or less visible opposition," says coauthor and center director Boleslaw Szymanski. The researchers saw this sudden power shift play out regardless of the network's structure. Andrea Baronchelli, a complex-systems scientist in Barcelona's Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, agrees. Image: 1.
Business group chat, file sharing, group decision making: Campfire Current Campfire customers can sign in here. Hello, We launched Campfire back in 2006 so teams could easily collaborate online in real-time. Since then, over 1,000,000,000 (yes, billion) messages have been sent with Campfire. However, since we merged Campfire into Basecamp with the launch of Basecamp 3, we haven’t given the standalone version of Campfire much attention. Existing customers will be able to continue using Campfire as they always have. For those new customers who are interested in Campfire, we highly recommend checking out Basecamp 3. Onwards, Jason Fried, Founder & CEO, Basecamp
Internet Trends 2011 Kleiner Perkins partners with the brightest entrepreneurs to turn disruptive ideas into world-changing businesses. The firm has helped build and accelerate growth at pioneering companies like AppDynamics, Google, Amazon, Flexus Biosciences, Nest, Waze, Twitter, JD.com and Square. Kleiner Perkins offers entrepreneurs years of operating experience, puts them at the center of an influential network, and accelerates their companies from success to significance. For more information, visit and follow us @kpcb. More People Are Now Sharing Their Cancer Diagnosis With all of the social networking sites at our disposal, we’ve become somewhat robotic in how we share, and what we share. And then somehow real life always kicks back in and you’re smacked in the face with reality. There are actual people behind those computers and avatars. For all of the horror stories you hear about Facebook privacy, or accidental tweets featuring the junk of some politician, there are heartwarming stories that remind us that the Internet isn’t all that bad after all. It’s a place to be ourselves, reach people we would have never been able to reach, and share things that we’ve never shared before. The “C” word Five years ago, you didn’t broadcast the fact that you had cancer. Over the past few weeks, many friends of ours in the tech community, and more importantly, real people who do amazing things, have shared the fact that they have cancer with the world. Last week, a good friend of mine DM’d me. Using your online voice to help others I have breast cancer.
How do you Make an Intelligent City? The 24 Hour City Project Through technology we have created new ways to collect, show, and share data. Beyond that dry term, “data”, is a vast range of possibility, and gamification is demonstrating how we can show and share information in the hopes of becoming more fit, more healthy, and more knowledgable. These are largely personal goals made social through technology, but what of inherently social goals? How can we use these new technologies to create better services, better communities, and better cities? The group came together to discuss the use of technology in the environment and for the future of our cities, but they did not stop at discussion. The resulting installations demonstrated how technology is already influencing how people interact with cities and gave a window in how that will continue to shape our lives. Check out the other top entries here and here. You may be asking what this has to do with games, and the answer is: a lot. Save $150 on your ticket by using code GBLOG14 at checkout!
Finance Management Community Knowledgebase Keynote Slides: Social Readiness: Architecting a Connected Enterprise #KMW11 I’m speaking to 1000 attendees here at KMWorld in Washington DC, on building your social business in the right way. I’m here to share Altimeter’s recent research on Social Business Readiness (read full report) which researched how advanced companies are preparing internally, you can read the whole report, and see slides below. Many years back, my career started out running intranets at Cable and Wireless, Exodus, World Savings and Hitachi Data Systems. The Goal? Note: There was an issue with slide formatting in slideshare, it should be fixed now, I replaced the file with the one embedded above.
Could a Facebook for Doctors Improve Your Care? Your accountant can email a specialist for advice about a specific issue in your tax return. Your doctor, however, doesn't necessarily have the same access to easy collaboration. There may, however, be a Facebook-like solution in the wings. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) prevents doctors from sharing patient information without "reasonable safeguards." While it's good that patient privacy is protected, these restrictions have contributed to the fax machine's mainstay as a major form of communication between doctors. A new doctors-only network called Doximity wants to free doctors from the fax machine and bring social media into the field. Doximity Founder and CEO Jeff Tangney says the idea of the feature is to give doctors a safe place to collaborate. "You can get fired for being a physician on Facebook," he says. In the digital age, this kind of collaboration makes a completely underwhelming story.