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Our friend and colleague Russell Shaw

Posted on March 16, 2008
It was with shock that I returned home from a night out last night to hear the news of Russell's passing. How terribly, terribly sad. Most of all for him, as he'd seemed buoyant, healthier, and content when I'd last seen him several months ago when he was in town - he was happy that work was busy and rewarding and was having fun with it but most of all was thrilled about how things were going with his girlfriend, Ellen...

New Comm Forum 2008: April 22-25 in Sonoma

Posted on January 22, 2008
We wanted to let you know about a discount to New Comm Forum, the annual event event put on by our friends at the Society for New Communications Research. The conference, which runs from April 22-25, will feature many of the field's leading observers and is an important event for those looking, in the words of SNCR, to "better understand new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, and their effect on traditional media, professional communications, business, culture and society...

New blogs: mobile messaging and Supernova's Conversation Hub

Posted on June 05, 2007
We've been remiss in letting you know about two new independent blogs we've helped launch in the past month or so. The first - the ConversationHub - is a companion blog to Supernova 2007, the latest edition of Kevin Werbach's excellent conference on all things connected...

Are you ready for an Enterprise 2.0 RAVE?

Posted on April 17, 2007
[Update: the Enterprise 2.0 Rave is now a virtual event - for info on the updated program check out the Rave's website.] We are producing an Enterprise 2.0 RAVE at the Hudson Hotel in NYC on May 21-22, 2007 for Longworth Venture Partners - the organizers of the event...

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New blog on innovation in health care

Posted on April 06, 2007
We're helping out on another independent group-blog in the vein of the FASTforwardblog we shepherded into existence late last year. This one, backed by World Congress in support of their conference series and called the World Health Care Blog, convenes leading bloggers from across the health care industry for an intense, centralized discussion of innovation in health care...

Future of Communities Blog

Posted on February 20, 2007
We've been remiss in pointing you to an independent blog we launched in January that's getting a lot of attention: The Future of Communities. The group blog, co-authored by a growing roster of respected commentators in the field, digs deep into the evolving discussion about community building and management and related marketing efforts in the run up to Community 2...

FASTforward '07 Wrap

Posted on February 20, 2007
The FASTforward blog, which was initially launched as a companion to FAST's early February conference, continues to hum along with ongoing coverage of Enterprise 2.0 issues, challenges, and developments. Tune in and you'll find numerous reports from the conference itself, including coverage of the keynotes and panel discussions which included the likes of Ray Lane, Chris Anderson, John Battelle, Tim O'Reilly and many others...

Corante-produced, Enterprise 2.0 blog launches

Posted on December 20, 2006
Wanted to let people know about a blog we've just launched: the FASTforward Blog. Conceived and produced by Corante and sponsored by Fast Search & Transfer as a companion to their upcoming conference, the blog convenes, for at least the next two months, a top flight crew of leading thinkers and doers for an active and spirited discussion on the next generation of enterprise software applications and issues...

Backster...

Posted on November 07, 2006
Flackster's back after an extended break with more wisdom and witticism from Michael O'Connor Clarke. The blog's focus again: the wonderful world of PR and how it's having to adjust to the new landscape of social media....

More from BIF-2 in Providence

Posted on October 04, 2006
Renee Hopkins Callahan and gang are blogging the day's great "storytelling" sessions. Tune in to the Innovation Hub for the latest. Speakers so far have included Tim Westergren of Pandora, Jane Fulton Suri of Ideo, and Larry Keeley of Doblin. More to come...

Innovation conference and blogjam

Posted on October 02, 2006
Renee Hopkins Callahan will lead a merry band of bloggers later this week in a blogjam on our Innovation Hub that accompanies the Collaborative Innovation Summit which will be held on October 3rd and 4th in Providence, RI. The conference, hosted by WSJ tech columnist Walt Mossberg and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman brings together a knockout group of innovators including: Segway inventor Dean Kamen, Titanic Discoverer Bob Ballard, Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor, IDEO?s Director of Human Factors Design and Research Jane Fulton Suri, InnoCentive co-founder Alph Bingham, MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics Director Hugh Herr architect/artist Michael Singer, and network guru Peter Gloor...

MarketingSherpa Reader's Choice Awards

Posted on June 22, 2006
MarketingSherpa has released their nominations for the top blogs and podcsts on marketing-related topics. Drawn from a list of more than a thousand nominations submitted by readers, the final list includes quite a few from the extended Corante family and apparently drew more than 100,000 votes in just its first day...

Future Tense - new industry survey

Posted on June 15, 2006
Be sure to tune in to Future Tense where new blog ringleader Giovanni Rodruiguez has kicked off a year-long survey of companies that are successfully implementing and supporting emergent behavior in the enterprise using social-media tools. The first to be profiled: SAP's Apollo Project...

2006 Innovative Marketing Conference coverage

Posted on June 13, 2006
While wearing the many different hats of MC, coordinator, wifi guy, podcast traffic cop, and many others at the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference, I was not able to take good notes of the great discussions that took place at the conference. Thankfully, many others did, and I will try to capture most of them here...

Innovative Marketing Conference coverage

Posted on June 09, 2006
We're in the closing hours of the conference and should point you to the reams of great content we've captured for posterity: A Fast Company Blogjam for which a team of bloggers have been reporting on the proceedings. Also tune in there for pointers to a great series of podcasts by Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson...

Join Skypecast with Larry Weber and Lois kelly at noon today!

Posted on June 02, 2006
Larry Weber, PR Guru, author and founder of the W2 Group, and Lois Kelly, interactive marketing pioneer and partner at Foghound, will discuss the future of the marketing department in a Skypecast at noon EST today. You can find more information about the upcoming Skypecast here...