eMedia News: 12/01/2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

J. Boye, 20.12.2009: Ways of improving checklist RFPs

J. Boye, 20.12.2009: Ways of improving checklist RFPs
by J. Boye: "I have previously advised that it is best to avoid Request-For-Proposals with checklists of requirements (e.g. “Do you support XYZ?) when selecting a new web platform. This advice remains solid, but unfortunately many buyers are unable to convince their procurement team to divert from their usual checklist-based process. Here some further assistance if you encounter this scenario"

Social Media and Employee Engagement, 19.12.2009: Case Studies

Social Media and Employee Engagement, 19.12.2009: Case Studies
by Harish Kotadia: "Social Media can be effectively used “internally” within an organization to engage employees, the way it is used externally to engage customers. I want to share with you a good Slideshare presentation by Polly Pearson of EMC on Social Media: Strategy & Execution that has several good case studies on internal Social Networks."

Saturday, December 19, 2009

The FASTForward Blog, 18.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part Four – Financial Impact

The FASTForward Blog, 18.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part Four – Financial Impact
by Bill Ives: "In this fourth post we will look at the financial impact. In future posts we will look at the lessons learned and plans for enhancements. Walton Smith, Program Manager for Booz Allen’s information sharing efforts and the lead for the Government 2.0 client practice, has agreed to be interviewed for this series and his time is appreciated."

Mashable, 18.12.2009: Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business Users

Mashable, 18.12.2009: Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business Users
by Howard Greenstein: "Google Wave (Google Wave) is an innovative new way for people to communicate and collaborate. But as Gina Tripani, author of The Complete Guide To Google Wave, noted in her recent keynote at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Wave is designed for power users. Wave is hard. There are a lot of features, all bundled together, and it can be intimidating for anyone to just look at it and decide “this is a great project management tool” or “this is the way we’re going to manage our notes about the proposal.”"

Friday, December 18, 2009

Library clips, 17.12.2009: The ROI of time spent helping others, and performance reviews

Library clips, 17.12.2009: The ROI of time spent helping others, and performance reviews
by John Tropea: "This is not a post about the overall ROI on social computing effectiveness, but more on the supposed expense of workers spending time away from their immediate tasks, even if it’s about helping others for the greater benefit of the organisation."

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 17.12.2009: Enterprise 2.0: The 2009 year in review

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 17.12.2009: Enterprise 2.0: The 2009 year in review
by Dion Hinchcliffe: We’ve learned this year that we’re going to have to create better filters and business intelligence analytics for the vast quantities of knowledge accumulating in social environments.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Portals and KM, 17.12.2009: Collaboration Seen as Top Driver of Enterprise Content Management Investments

Portals and KM, 17.12.2009: Collaboration Seen as Top Driver of Enterprise Content Management Investments
by Bill Ives: "I recently received a review copy of the Forrester report on 2010 ECM investment projections. Stephen Powers and his team surveyed 170 knowledge managers with decision-making roles in enterprise content management about their plans for the coming year. The team found that 72% of respondents said their organizations plan to increase ECM use or the number of ECM deployments in the next 12 months, while only 4% of organizations plan to scale back ECM use or number of deployments."

ReadWriteEnterprise, 17.12.2009: Facebook in the Factory: Manufacturers Want Social Software, Too

ReadWriteEnterprise, 17.12.2009: Facebook in the Factory: Manufacturers Want Social Software, Too
by Alex Williams: "Factories may not be the first place you'd expect to see demand for social technologies. But social networks are changing how manufacturers view their operations."

Mashable, 16.12.2009: How a 40,000+ Employee Company Trains its Employees on Social Media

Mashable, 16.12.2009: How a 40,000+ Employee Company Trains its Employees on Social Media
by Adam Ostrow: "The 40,000 person company makes social media training mandatory for its employees and formalized a policy of “3Rs” – responsibility, respect and representation. Taking things a step further, today the company is trying something about as transparent as it gets – publishing their entire social media training guide online, so that anyone can check it out, learn and critique."

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The FASTForward Blog, 15.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part Three – Operational Impact.

The FASTForward Blog, 15.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part Three – Operational Impact.
by Bill Ives: This is the third in a six part series on Booz Allen’s award winning implementation of Enterprise 2.0, termed the Hello system. .. In this third post we will look at the operational impact.

CIO.com, 15.12.2009: What CIOs Get Wrong About Emerging Technology

CIO.com, 15.12.2009: What CIOs Get Wrong About Emerging Technology
by Kim S. Nash: "Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School and expert on disruptive innovation, talks about how new technologies such as cloud computing mean big changes for the CIO role and why they still don't get alignment."

Black&White, 15.12.2009: Slaves of the feed – This is not the realtime we’ve been looking for

Black&White, 15.12.2009: Slaves of the feed – This is not the realtime we’ve been looking for
by Thomas Petersen: "Information is accumulating online. The amount of available information is increasing at an exponential rate, some say it doubles every second year. This mean that any illusion of being able to stay up to date with everything that is going on is utopian and has been probably since Guttenberg invented the press."

Jon On Tech, 16.12.2009: Visions of Jon: WCM is for Losers

Jon On Tech, 16.12.2009: Visions of Jon: WCM is for Losers
by Jon Marks: "Now this I agree with more than the CMS Watch version. Parts of ECM include Document Management, Records Management, Collaboration, Imaging, Workflow and all that good stuff. It is these pillars that allow a business to manage their content. The end game of all of these technologies is content sitting in a repository that can be easily found and consumed. The includes all the fun with versions, security, compliance and anything else you’d want to do with it. But it does not include setting up web based delivery channel that exposes some of this content. WCM should not be considered part of ECM."

Mashable, 15.12.2009: 4 Surprising Google Wave Uses

Mashable, 15.12.2009: 4 Surprising Google Wave Uses
by Samuel Axon: "Four uses in particular have stood out for their cleverness and high fun factor, and you probably didn’t see any of them coming. Each has gotten a lot of press, so if you’ve been following Wave closely you might have heard of them."

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 15.12.2009: How Social Could Disrupt Search

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 15.12.2009: How Social Could Disrupt Search
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "The inimitable Fred Wilson concluded yesterday in 'Why Social Beats Search', that '[m]achines can help us find what is good. But with the help of machines, our friends and trusted sources can and will do that even better.' This statement capped off a fresh debate over the weekend about automated, keyword-driven 'McContent' creation that started when Michael Arrington posted about 'the end of hand crafted content'. Richard MacManus also explored the same issues in 'Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs, and Google Should Be Worried'."

The Cutter Blog, 15.12.2009: The State of EA in 2010

The Cutter Blog, 15.12.2009: The State of EA in 2010
by Mike Rosen: "nterprise architecture (EA) has become a mainstream activity in large or information-intensive organizations. Several years ago, Cutter IT Journal covered the emerging best practices in EA, and since then readers have requested that we check back to explore how things are evolving. What are EA programs focusing on in 2010 and beyond?"

CMSWatch.com, 15.12.2009: Trends: 2010 Content Technology Predictions

CMSWatch.com, 15.12.2009: Trends: 2010 Content Technology Predictions
by Jarrod Gingras: "With only a few weeks left in 2009, it's time for our team of CMS Watch analysts to reveal our 2010 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year. This is our fourth year in a row trying to read the future, and like most predictors, our track record is mixed. If you'd like to see how we've done, you can view past predictions here: 2009, 2008, and 2007."

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, 07.12.2009: Reflections on Surviving Disruptive Innovations

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, 07.12.2009: Reflections on Surviving Disruptive Innovations
by Irving Wladawsky-Berger: "As I was writing the blog, my personal experiences at IBM kept flashing through my mind, both our own near-death experience back in the early 1990s, and what we learned a few years later as we embraced the Internet and came up with the e-business market strategy, which played such a key role in helping to transform the business models and culture of the company. IT and media are clearly very different industries, but there are parallels from which perhaps we can learn. Let me discuss three such potential lessons."

The Lynch Blog, 14.12.2009: Deciding When to Use Microblogging, E-mail or IM

The Lynch Blog, 14.12.2009: Deciding When to Use Microblogging, E-mail or IM
by CG Lynch: "Microblogging in real-time applications like Twitter and Facebook has forced us to reevaluate how we utilize older communication technologies like instant messaging (IM) and e-mail. As Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) has pointed out, social software is by no means a replacement for those technologies inside businesses. But when used properly along side them, it can eliminate the time you waste finding the right people and information to do your job."

Monday, December 14, 2009

ReadWrite Web, 14.12.2009: Google, Twitter, WordPress & Facebook: Publish/Subscribe Matrix Could Explode Into Glass-Smooth Platform

ReadWrite Web, 14.12.2009: Google, Twitter, WordPress & Facebook: Publish/Subscribe Matrix Could Explode Into Glass-Smooth Platform
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "A storm of news points to a future of frictionless publishing and subscription, across platforms."

A VC, 14.12.2009: Why Social Beats Search

A VC, 14.12.2009: Why Social Beats Search
by Fred Wilson: "That's a controversial post headline and I don't mean that social will always beat search, but there's a rising chorus out there about 'content farms' and search optimized content creation that is worth touching on."

Intelligent Enterprise, 14.12.2009: Search, Compliance, Collaboration To Drive ECM 2010 Spending

Intelligent Enterprise, 14.12.2009: Search, Compliance, Collaboration To Drive ECM 2010 Spending
by Antone Gonsalves: "Forrester Research also found in surveying 170 information and knowledge management professionals that Web content management and records management will be areas of investment next year."

Andrew McAfee’s Blog, 14.12.2009: The S Word

Andrew McAfee’s Blog, 14.12.2009: The S Word
by Andrew McAfee: "I ended my talk at last month’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco (viewable here; free registration required) by trying to be cute: I gave advice about how to fail with E2.0. My goal, of course, was to talk about good practices by highlighting bad ones."

Saturday, December 12, 2009

SocialComputingJournal.com 12.12.2009: Explaining Enterprise 2.0 to Managers in 10 Principles

SocialComputingJournal.com 12.12.2009: Explaining Enterprise 2.0 to Managers in 10 Principles
by Cecil Dijoux: "One of the most common misconceptions our managers make when they talk about Enterprise 2.0 is to reduce this approach to a mere Web 2.0 collaborative toolset. We can smile about it, but if we get this kind of misunderstanding, it's probably because we missed something while communicating around this."

The FASTForward Blog, 11.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part Two

The FASTForward Blog, 11.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part Two
by Bill Ives: "This is the second in a six part series on Booz Allen’s award winning implementation of Enterprise 2.0 ... In this second post we will look at the change management efforts and results."

Friday, December 11, 2009

The Economist, 10.12.2009: Monitor: Better ways to collaborate

The Economist, 10.12.2009: Monitor: Better ways to collaborate
by Belle Mellor: "Software: E-mail has severe limitations as an online collaboration tool, but it has the benefit of ubiquity. Might it be displaced by something new?"

CMSWire.com, 10.12.2009: Collaboration, Search and Compliance Key Areas for ECM Investment in 2010

CMSWire.com, 10.12.2009: Collaboration, Search and Compliance Key Areas for ECM Investment in 2010
by Barb Mosher: "Forrester conducted survey with 170 ECM decision makers to get a feel for where the ECM market may be headed in 2010. And based on the results, it's still a market in demand. The survey revealed at 72% of organizations are planning on spending money on ECM in the new year."

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 10.12.2009: What will power next-generation businesses?

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 10.12.2009: What will power next-generation businesses?
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "This is a new Internet-powered business landscape. Self-organizing peer production is the motive force and network effects are the new market share."

The SiliconANGLE, 10.12.2009: Enterprise 2.0 and the Real Time Web with Jive

The SiliconANGLE, 10.12.2009: Enterprise 2.0 and the Real Time Web with Jive
by Robert Scoble: "The news from the two high-profile players signaled that all enterprise software likely will become social with features that work like those on Facebook and Twitter, letting users have social network information about customers and colleagues at their fingertips. But there are a raft of so-called pure-play players such as Jive Software that already specialize in a social media collaboration applications for the enterprise."

Thursday, December 10, 2009

CIO.com, 10.12.2009: Microsoft in 2010: Four Challenges That Lie Ahead

CIO.com, 10.12.2009: Microsoft in 2010: Four Challenges That Lie Ahead
by Shane O'Neill: "For Microsoft, 2010 will be a critical rebuilding year where the software giant must maintain Windows 7 and Bing momentum, resuscitate Windows Mobile and prevent businesses from "Going Google."

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 09.12.2009: 12 Adoption Strategies for Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in 2010

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, 09.12.2009: 12 Adoption Strategies for Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in 2010
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "The signs are pointing to next year being a banner one when it comes to mainstream adoption of the latest digital business models. With half a decade under the belt of the Web 2.0 phenomenon and almost as long for Enterprise 2.0, we're just now seeing the ideas spread to more traditional corners of large enterprises, medium-sized firms, and especially the public sector with Government 2.0."

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 09.12.2009: Cloud computing, so much more than multi-tenancy

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 09.12.2009: Cloud computing, so much more than multi-tenancy
by Phil Wainewright: "I thought about the role of multi-tenancy in cloud computing. The keynote hall was full of customers and prospects — a thousand or more altogether — and I’m guessing that, even though Salesforce.com always makes a big deal of multi-tenancy and how fundamental it is to cloud computing, very few of these business people really care what technology the platform is built on, so long as it delivers the goods."

FT.com, 09.12.2009: Enterprise 2.0 is vital for business

FT.com, 09.12.2009: Enterprise 2.0 is vital for business
by Andrew McAfee : "Every day, more companies are deploying the technologies of Web 2.0, and also adopting the approaches to teamwork and interaction that have made Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 resources so phenomenally popular."

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

The FASTForward Blog, 09.12.2009: Measuring the Business Value of Enterprise 2.0, Using Enterprise 2.0

The FASTForward Blog, 09.12.2009: Measuring the Business Value of Enterprise 2.0, Using Enterprise 2.0
by Joe McKendrick: "Enterprises are working with a lot of new promising technologies and methodologies, everything from cloud computing to user-driven mashups to social networking and service oriented architecture. The question is, how can managers effectively measure the benefits they’re getting from new deployments?"

PR 2.0, 09.12.2009: The Evolution of A New Trust Economy

PR 2.0, 09.12.2009: The Evolution of A New Trust Economy
by Brian Solis: "Social Media is rooted in relationships, the dynamic interaction and collaboration between real people. We learned and continue to learn how to communicate in public forums, evolving our personal views on privacy and uncertainty as we transform from digital introverts to social extroverts."

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

HarvardBusiness.org, 08.12.2009: Is Social Media Worth Your Time?

HarvardBusiness.org, 08.12.2009: Is Social Media Worth Your Time?
by Morten Hansen: "What's the business value of using social media? In my view, there has to be a crystal clear business impact for using these tools."

search engine land, 08.12.2009: 12 Social Media New Year’s Resolutions For 2010

search engine land, 08.12.2009: 12 Social Media New Year’s Resolutions For 2010
by Greg Finn: "Since 2010 is right around the corner, I wanted to get a bit proactive on our New Year’s resolutions, and do it social media style. There are so many issues in the social realm that this list could be endless, but I chose the 12 most important items to work on in social media in 2010. As you may know, there is no right answer in social media; each company is different, but each of these points can be adjusted for any company. Hopefully this will work as a guide on how to create a better social media presence in 2010!"

McKinsey Quarterly, 08.12.2009: IT in the new normal McKinsey Global Survey results

McKinsey Quarterly, 08.12.2009: IT in the new normal McKinsey Global Survey results
by Roger Roberts and Johnson Sikes: "Recession or no recession, corporate and IT leaders continue to see a key role for IT, especially in regard to capturing efficiencies across the enterprise. Many expect IT investments to grow soon."

The FASTForward Blog, 08.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part One Overview of Business Drivers and Components

The FASTForward Blog, 08.12.2009: Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen: Part One Overview of Business Drivers and Components
by Bill Ives: "This is the first in a six part series on Booz Allen’s award winning implementation of Enterprise 2.0."

Monday, December 07, 2009

Mashable, 07.12.2009: Why Facebook Chose to Limit Google and Spare Twitter Search

Mashable, 07.12.2009: Why Facebook Chose to Limit Google and Spare Twitter Search
by Ben Parr: "The inclusion of Facebook (Facebook) in this list of real-time sources is one of the most important aspects of today’s announcements, and it is something that could have major implications for Twitter and its ambitions to become the world’s water cooler. In fact, Facebook held back the opportunity to deal a heavy hit to its microblogging rival. But why?"

Official Google Blog, 07.12.2009: Relevance meets the real-time web

Official Google Blog, 07.12.2009: Relevance meets the real-time web
by Amit Singhal: "That's why today, at the Computer History Museum, we're excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search that we feel are important steps in the evolution of information access."

ReadWriteEnterprise, 07.12.2009: Top 10 Enterprise Products of 2009

ReadWriteEnterprise, 07.12.2009: Top 10 Enterprise Products of 2009
by Alex Williams: "Web-based services are moving fast into the enterprise, raising questions about document-based environments in a world increasingly influenced by real-time information. We saw this time and again as the year rolled on. It played an important factor in how we developed our top ten list."

Sunday, December 06, 2009

SocialComputingJournal.com, 06.12.2009: Six Must-Read New Topics in Enterprise Social Computing

SocialComputingJournal.com, 06.12.2009: Six Must-Read New Topics in Enterprise Social Computing
by Social Computing News Desk: "This year has seen a major move to adopt Enterprise 2.0 tools by businesses that are looking to update or modernize their workplaces for a variety of reasons. Organizations are now beginning to use social tools to achieve better company communication, higher worker productivity, and to harness innovation. Along that way a great deal is happening in this new industry and more has been learned this year than ever before."

Blogging Innovation, 06.12.2009: Four Quadrants of Innovation

Blogging Innovation, 06.12.2009: Four Quadrants of Innovation
by Hutch Carpenter: "Building on that, I wanted a framework for delineating innovations based on their technology and business impacts. Because they're not necessarily the same. The four quadrants below describe the dynamics for innovations according to their technology and market impacts"

Saturday, December 05, 2009

IT@Intel Blog, 04.012.2009: All I Want For Christmas is my E2.0

IT@Intel Blog, 04.012.2009: All I Want For Christmas is my E2.0
by Laurie Buczek: "Not only do we have to evaluate and deploy solutions, but we also have to address Governance, Security Concerns, provide quantifiable ROI, capture use cases, and tackle transition change management one person and one team at a time. Here are my reflections on 2009"

VentureBeat, 04.12.2009: A brief history of social network enterprise collaboration tools

VentureBeat, 04.12.2009: A brief history of social network enterprise collaboration tools
by C. W. Thompson: "With this in mind, we thought it would be good to provide an overview of a few of the key players in the social networking enterprise collaboration market."

Friday, December 04, 2009

BusinessWeek, 03.12.2009: Beware Social Media Snake Oil

BusinessWeek, 03.12.2009: Beware Social Media Snake Oil
by Stephen Baker: "Hordes of marketing 'experts' are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs. All the hype may obscure the real potential of these online tools"

cmswatch.com, 02.12.2009: Trends: Content Technology Vendor Map - 2010

cmswatch.com, 02.12.2009: Trends: Content Technology Vendor Map - 2010
Tony Byrne: "We've just updated our 'Content Technology Vendor Map' for 2010. The overall landscape has changed only a little -- most notably Interwoven and Vignette now go away as separate stops. And in their place we've been able to add some additional vendors. These remain very dynamic marketplaces."

Thursday, December 03, 2009

ECM Stuff, 01.12.2009: Google Chrome OS - think enterprise..........

ECM Stuff, 01.12.2009: Google Chrome OS - think enterprise..........
by Jed Cawthorne: "I think of the implications for information and knowledge management, for ECM and intranets, and I think that a 'thin client' based on Chrome OS plus a really good intranet could be a pleasent working experience. However I am also not saying this will work for everyone, so don't flame me because you need full on Windows for printing to your full colour A0 plotter, or for scanning invoices, or your Mac for graphic design, but lets think about it....."

Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad, 01.12.2009: How to understand and position enteprise 2.0 in the real enterprise

Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad, 01.12.2009: How to understand and position enteprise 2.0 in the real enterprise
by Bertrand Duperrin: "It’s time to sum up all the thoughts I had these last months. I tried to start from both the concerns expressed by C level managers asking for a global vision and ground managers who needed a “hands on” vision because they don’t have time to waste to try to understand such nebulous things. Having to focus on day to day delivery and short term objectives, many see such a fallen-from-the-sky (and on their head) gift as a source of misunderstanding and discomfort."

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Digital Landfill, 30.11.2009: 8 Reasons Why #GoogleWave May (or May Not) Kill E-Mail

Digital Landfill, 30.11.2009: 8 Reasons Why #GoogleWave May (or May Not) Kill E-Mail
by Claude Baudoin: "Google Wave merges e-mail, instant messaging (IM), and wikis. It no longer matter what “style” you use to start the conversation, it can migrate seamlessly as the wave develops."

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

MindTouch, Inc Blog, 30.11.2009: Enterprise 2.0 Strategy Guide – A tool matrix for internal champions

MindTouch, Inc Blog, 30.11.2009: Enterprise 2.0 Strategy Guide – A tool matrix for internal champions
by Mark Fidelman: "Imagine you’re in a cube farm, perhaps the 6�6’ grey type we’re all so familiar with. You’re at the center of the first floor of a multi-story commercial building. No windows, just a view of coworkers typing on their laptops and placing calls to check on the status of their projects. It’s difficult to know what’s happening outside of your surrounding area."