eMedia News

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."