Susan Scrupski Joins ReadWriteWeb as VP Enterprise Content and Programs
UPDATE, 15 April 2009: Sadly this business relationship has not worked out as planned, therefore ReadWriteWeb and Susan Scrupski have decided to part ways. As Susan wrote on her blog this week, "It was important to make a clean cut sooner rather than later. We have all parted friends and hope to continue to work together on Enterprise-related projects."
I'm very pleased to announce that Susan Scrupski (a.k.a. "ITSinsider") has joined ReadWriteWeb as our VP Enterprise Content and Programs.
Starting today, Susan will assume responsibility for building our
editorial and expertise in applying the principals of Web 2.0 to the
Enterprise. With a focus on how the Web is disrupting traditional
business processes and operations, our Enterprise channel (which will soon be re-launched with a new design) will focus on
new products, case studies, and innovative developments involving Web
strategy and execution in a B2B context. Yes, B2B is back!
Susan is uniquely qualified to manage this exciting new chapter in ReadWriteWeb's evolution. With advertising, publishing, research, consulting, and blogging street cred in the Enterprise space, she brings two decades of experience to bear on our own business model reinvention. Susan has been a key voice on the Enterprise 2.0 market via her ITSinsider blog since 2006. She is also a member of the elite Enterprise Irregulars blogging consortium, as well as an Advisory Board member of the Enterprise 2.0 annual conference held in Boston and a key adviser to the Office 2.0 conference held each year in San Francisco.
Susan is the fourth full-time member of ReadWriteWeb, after myself (the founder), Marshall Kirkpatrick who joined us full-time in August as VP Content Development, and Bernard Lunn who became COO in December. The rest of our staff are contractors. I am proud of the whole team we have managed to put together without external funding.
Please join me in welcoming Susan into her new role. We have big plans for ReadWriteWeb and we're grateful for the continued support of our readers and sponsors.
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Congrats RWW on bringing a dynamic E2.0 voice into your fold. Look forward to following good things to come! Rock em', Susan!
Fantastic! Congratualtions Susan and to RWW. Excellent hire!!
"dear editor Scrupski, I'm down on my knees,
the web don't need semantic, it needs programming ease
its not just the standards or the W3C,
Its just all the paradigms that steeeeenks.
Great news! Looking forward to seeing what Susan & RWW do with the Enterprise channel. Congratulations Susan!
Hi Susan,
again my most sincere congratulations to you and the RWW team for the smart move! The entire E2.0 community is looking forward to read more about the topic from someone that really made and gets it.
Well done Richard! :)
Congrats on building out and even more impressive team!
Congrats Susan!
I can't think of a better addition to the RWW team. Looking at the tech blogging landscape, I've always thought that RWW is best positioned to fold in the topic of enterprise social computing.
With Bernard excellent writing and now Susan, this can become the must have resource for enterprises looking to understand the phenomenon that is E2.0.
I'm hoping theres plenty of business activity focus to keep vendors and the the rest of us in the enterprise space honest :p
Great choice of a person.I'm confident that Susan will do a fabulous job. She's passionate, articulate, insightful and has th rare the ability to cut through all the hype.
Congratulations Susan!
My go-to source for e2.0 analysis this month is ZDNet, specifically articles by Jennifer Leggio and Dion Hinchcliffe. I get more content directly from bloggers, but ZDNet is my #1 for a group blog focusing on E2.0. I know this is infuriatingly vague feedback, but I'd still recommend you take a hard look at what they're doing right and then do it better.
I promise to come back with actionable recommendations soon once I figure out what it is I like about ZDNet. One thing's for sure, it isn't their registration process or their story volume. They put out a bit more than I can follow, but I really really like the recent work from the two authors I mentioned above.
Welcome Susan ;-)
This is great news. I love ReadWriteWeb and the style and quality of its content. I know Susan is going to make this even more true!
Congrats, Susan, on your successful mashup!
From what I know of you and of RWW, this is a great move for everyone :)
Let's see who wins:
1. RWW gets a great resource
2. Susan gets a great job
3. RWW readers get excellent perspective from a well respected source
4. E2.0 industry gets covered by people who understand the marketplace, vendor landscape, and client needs.
5. E2.0 industry participants (vendors, analysts, consultants, VARs, buyers etc.) have a great channel to engage, converse, and learn.
Wow, this is a win-win-win-win-win. Nice move! We all benefit. Congrats to RWW, Susan, and all of us too.
Congrats, Susan. One immediate thought is to review your existing stories classified under the "enterprise" taxonomy. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/enterprise/) There's a lot of great content in there but I'm uncertain that it all truly pertains to the enterprise.
The other (more snarky) comment goes to Richard: "B2B is back!" Richard, it never left! It's just that the Web 2.0 world has been focused on the consumer Web, where the froth and fun has been for years. Now that startups are looking for revenue, the enterprise looks like a better bet than cash-strapped consumers. Or least, that's my bet.
I look forward to more great insights on Enterprise 2.0 case studies and rollouts, Susan. See you in Boston in June!
ohhhhhhhh.....editor Scrupski, can't you just see?
our database don't scale and open source aint for me!
Its not that we're stupid, its not that we're geeks
its just that enterprise just stinks!
You people have no sense of cultural reference.
SS is an amazing catch. She's a top of the heap voice for E 2.0! So excited for both RWW and Susan to see what's next. Congrats to you both. Well done!!!
Whooooaaaahhhhh!!! Talking about news items that would surely make your day! One of my favourite resources around the areas of E2.0 and Social Software gets to work with one of my favourite people in the same fields with a clear mission to make a difference! And surely delivering! Really, really happy for both Susan and RWW!
Congratulations, everyone! It surely is a win-win situation for all of us, faithful readers, throughout the years! Well done!! :-D
Congrats Susan on the news! Glad to see you take this role... We appreciate our time with you a few weeks back - hope to hear from you soon!
Congratulations to RWW and Susan on this match. I will be a regular reader; Susan always informs me and makes me think.
- APM
Congratulations Richard and Susan. I like RRW very much. I look forward to some good coverage of that which they call E2.0 or enterprise social computing. I am Susan will do great.
I like the brief a lot, but I think there is a :
That'll teach me for trusting the preview button to check whether tags were working ;-)
What I meant to say was:
Congratulations Richard and Susan. I like RRW very much. I look forward to some good coverage of that which they call E2.0 or enterprise social computing. I am Susan will do great.
I like the brief a lot, but I think there is a simpler way of saying this bit, which I see as key:
There is an opportunity for real journalism in this space, and I would love to see some. Aside from some good individual blogs, coverage has been little better than either the computer trade press of yore or the newer TechCrunch variety. We have a once in a generation opportunity to contribute towards the redefinition of some key aspects of business and the rethinking of organisational and market structures. Less 'companies and markets' style startup soap operas and more analysis is required. RWW is looking like a place that could provide that :-)
Susan, congratulations. Come talk to us at Cisco, we have some great 2.0 work going on.
Yeah, Susan rocks.
Looking forward to more in-depth focus on the Enterprise here at RWW!
Congratulations Susan! I'm looking forward to continuing to read you!
Or, as we open source geeks might say: +1
;)
Quite a week, indeed. -Beauty solutions
Looking forward to more in-depth focus on the Enterprise here at RWW!
Susan, congratulations. Come talk to us at Cisco, we have some great 2.0 work going on.
Congrats, Susan. One immediate thought is to review your existing stories classified under the "enterprise" taxonomy.
big hole in the prevailing wisdom that the "wisdom of crowds" is a trustworthy force on
There is an opportunity for real journalism in this space, and I would love to see some.
I like the brief a lot, but I think there is a