Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

What we’re witnessing with the hype and geek love swirling around Google+ follows a well established pattern identified by Gartner analysts called “ hype cycles.&# It begins with a technology trigger, followed by the peak of inflated expectations and punditry. And, of course, all the funny comics showing the demise of Twitter (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

There is also some analysis of Second Life's Ride on the Gartner Hype Cycle (See enlargement of chart here and additional comments here ) from the PR perspective. (The first post , prompted much discussion amongst librarians and educator using Second Life and as well as disagreement from some in the business press.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

I’m not recommending that all nonprofits should immediately just say no (or yes) to the latest technology tool that is capturing the imagination (and time) of geeks. But, it is important to have a framework like Gartner Technology Hype Cycle to think it through. There are three choices: Early Move: Willing to combine risk taking with (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

If you want to evaluate meeting platforms, check out this list from Gartner or this curated list from Collaboration Super Powers.If Check out “ The Ultimate List of Virtual Meeting Tools ” or “ The Ultimate List of Online Collaboration Tools “for more tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2007

That's a diagram I created to illustrate Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles. My FLickr Stream. I thought about that diagram when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? " He points to some early warning signs, but admits he doesn't have a crystal ball.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Gartner's Technology Hype Cycles : I created that diagram based on the Gartner's theory and have seen it come into play over and over again. When I read Jeremiah Owyang's post, two reflections came to mind: 1. About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

This morning I came across a blog by Adam Reuters summarizing the two other blog posts I pointed to the other day on the topic of " Gauging Second Life Hype Cycle" (BTW, according to the article, a spokeswoman for Gartner said that the firm has not officially assigned Second Life a position on its Hype Cycle, but is examining the issue.).

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