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Dion Hinchcliffe

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Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe
Dion Hinchcliffe is founder and chief technology officer for the Enterprise Web 2.0 advisory and consulting firm Hinchcliffe & Company, based in Alexandria, Virginia. A veteran of software development, Dion has been working for two decades with leading-edge methods to accelerate project schedules and raise the bar for software quality. He has extensive practical experience with enterprise technologies and he consults, speaks, and writes prolifically on IT and software architecture. Dion still works in the trenches with enterprise IT clients in the federal government and Fortune 1000. He also speaks and publishes about Web 2.0 and SOA on a regular basis. Dion is working on a book about Web 2.0 for Addison-Wesley and is currently editor-in-chief of the Web 2.0 Journal and AjaxWorld Magazine.

About Enterprise Web 2.0

Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.
  • Enterprise 2.0 and improved business performance

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | April 14, 2010, 10:31am PDT

    There’s been some useful and interesting discussion in the blogosphere recently about collaborative social tools and their potential to improve business performance. Especially good takes...

  • When online communities go to work

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | March 22, 2010, 11:19am PDT

    While the debate continues on about whether consumer social networking is an effective model for how we should run our organizations in the future, one under-appreciated online phenomenon is...

  • Webciety and Enterprise 2.0: A snapshot of today's social computing conversations

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | March 5, 2010, 4:55am PST

    Though smaller than in year’s past, Germany’s CeBIT trade show in Hanover this week remains one of the giants of the industry and is a must-attend event for much of Europe’s...

  • The Facebook imperative for enterprise software

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 28, 2010, 6:57pm PST

    Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, the well-known CRM and cloud computing company (and now soon-to-be social software vendor) wrote a guest post on TechCrunch late last week making the case for “why...

  • Making government more open and social

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 28, 2010, 7:33am PST

    Can social tools and community-based approaches truly help our government function better and operate more efficiently? Will open access to government data create important new opportunities for...

  • Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 22, 2010, 10:43am PST

    Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground fairly...

  • First impressions of Google Buzz: Smart, useful, long road ahead

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 9, 2010, 4:00pm PST

    Earlier this afternoon Google Buzz went live after a comprehensive launch event streamed live over YouTube. Buzz is a brand-new social tool that helps users to share updates, links, photos,...

  • SAP's 12Sprints joins the social enterprise bandwagon

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 4, 2010, 7:23am PST

    I spent some time this morning working with SAP’s new 12Sprints collaboration service, which was announced earlier this week. Available free in open beta immediately, it’s a...

  • Social CRM: Ground zero for Enterprise 2.0 in 2010

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 3, 2010, 9:14am PST

    There’s been some debate recently on whether Social CRM is part of the broader Enterprise 2.0 story. I try to answer the question and explore some of the latest thinking on social business...

  • The app store: The new "must-have" digital business model

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | January 21, 2010, 12:14pm PST

    Amazon announced today that it was opening up its Kindle reader device to 3rd party applications to be distributed later this year in the Kindle Store. This news was just one more in a string of...

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