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Rick is on a day to day basis working on social media (strategy) cases for several (Fortune 500) clients. He lives and loves social media, helping people and enterprises in using social media in a way that adds value for them. He also gives guest lectures at several universities to make students aware of the impact social media will have on their life in general and on enterprises in particular in the near and not so near future. Is he a geek? Well… yes. A geek with a social life though. Even one with a wife and a young son, who’s first English words were ‘Social media’.

Transforming Software Architecture for the 21st Century

This deck summarizes how enterprise architecture and large scale technology-based business solutions must transform to be more effective in the 21st century.

Contains material on a hypothesis for what's wrong with today's EA as well as potential solutions of merit such as emergent architecture, WOA, enterprise REST, open supply chains (APIs), mashups, and other models.

Geek And Poke: Enterprise 2.0 In The Recession

15 ways to spark a fight in the E2.0 community.

  1. Is Enterprise 2.0 revolutionary or evolutionary?
  2. What the ROI of a telephone?
  3. Is SharePoint an Enterprise 2.0 tool or not?
  4. RSS is dead.  Discuss or refute.
  5. Did Enterprise 2.0 kill Knowledge Management or is it Knowledge Management with a new name?
  6. Is Twitter an Enterprise 2.0 tool?
  7. Why do Enterprise 2.0 people talk about tools all the time and then say “it’s not about the tools, it about the culture.”  So which is it?
  8. Are Enterprise 2.0 experts also Social Media experts?  And what exactly does “expert” mean?
  9. Why do we always talk about “Adoption” and  ”Evangelism“?  Are we missionaries looking for orphans?
  10. Is microblogging a platform or a feature?
  11. Did Twitter kill blogs?  Why do some many people blog about Twitter and tweet their blogs?
  12. Which is a better regarding Twitter followers – quality or quantity?  Are you just saying that ‘cuz you don’t have a lot of followers or do you really mean that?  And why so many blogs on how to get more followers?
  13. Hey, why do Enterprise 2.0 people talk about Twitter so much?  I thought that’s “web 2.0″?
  14. So who’s the customer of Enterprise 2.0?
  15. If Enterprise 2.0’s predicted market size (by 2013) is $4.6 Billion, how come so many E 2.0 folks are out of a job?