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Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Jive Introduce 'Software as a Service' Social Business Express

Jive Software are launching a free for 90 days cloud version of their 'Social Business Software' SBS today - a lighter weight hosted solution for those who are grappling with internal infrastructure and resources challenges but need to get up and running with a collaboration environment. ...

Tags: Tenant, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Software-as-a-service, Marketing, Information Technology, Environment, Use Case, Collaboration Environment, Jive SBS, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Microsoft External Research release five new tools to students

  I was told about these last week and was held off until now; annoyingly after Channel 8 decided to post their own video, probably to get all the credit. Sometimes I think, why do I bother do this job? (Good income, great hours, travel and trips...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tool, Collaboration Environment, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Corporate Communications, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Additional Resources

Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!

Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla: The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Running Cover-it-Live, Saesforce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage

The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-18

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

Cisco Announces Hosted Email Service

Cisco just announced a new hosted email offer, WebEx Mail. at its collaboration summit. This isn't the first time that Cisco has entered the email business, but it does come at time when Cisco is moving to challenge Microsoft and IBM in broader collaboration space. Similar to...

Tags: Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Semantic Inbox, Outlook Experience, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Microsoft 'builds a branch to Java developers" with Teamprise buy

what I don't get it is...why would anybody using Eclipse would want Visual studio too.Eclipse is not...... the only IDE in existence. And Java is not the only language in existence. Some compagnies uses several technologies. I saw Linux and windows servers running side by side and operating in a...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, Eclipse, compagny, Java, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Java developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Windows Phones and Unified Communications

Are you thinking about unified communications in your business? You need to be. In today's world, two trends are reshaping the way we work: 1) all workers are becoming mobile workers, and 2) highly effective collaboration has become every business's competitive edge in the 21st century. The...

Tags: Phone, Unified Communications, Microsoft Windows, Worker, Collaboration

White papers 2009-11-01

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's ambitious push into cloud computing -- and the enterprise. Ubuntu is best known for its Linux desktop and there are several desktop improvements in this upgrade -- including a faster boot and login and enhanced audio and and 3G broadband connectivity. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Eucalyptus, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Desktops, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Please, someone build a better Wave!

"Wave" isn't just a Google thing, it's an open protocol that anyone can build upon and implement. Google isn't known for good design they have little kids draw logos for them. The direct result of that fact is an ugly user interaction on...

Tags: Google Inc., Wiki, Team Management, Online Communications, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Google Wave: Begging for a classrom

Using Wave to interconnect academic institutionsI think, the first large-scale Wave deployment should be used to interconnect all academic institutions around the world.This would be attractive because:1. younger generations are very adaptable, to new technology.2. there is a great deal of collaboration, in the academic world.3. technical glitches are likely...

Tags: Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Google Inc., classrom, IRC

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google ink collaboration pact; Promise 'innovative applications'

The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google ink collaboration pact; Promise Time to change my phone carrier, I don't need Google taking control and recording my conversations like they tried to do with Chrome.Yes yes yes!Hope for choice and an area of computing not controlled and manipulated by MSRE: The Android...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Communications Inc., collaboration pact, Google Inc., Verizon Wireless, phone, VZW, Apple iPhone, innovative application, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

Spot onHi Oliver -Thanks for adding your perspective to this and for referencing our Community Maturity Model. I think you are spot on in calling out the fact that current initiatives and strategic intent are fairly unbalanced right now in terms of resources and ownership. Companies are recognizing...

Tags: COMPANIES, Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....

Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-03

Cisco doubles down on video conferencing; Acquires Tandberg for $3 billion

"Tandberg, a Norwegian video conferencing outfit"You must awfully young. Not that many years ago, Tandberg was a major manufacturer of hi-fi equipment, especially tape recorders. They had a running rivalry with Nakamichi over who made the best cassette deck.Tandberg lives another high-tech life!Yes, it is kind of cool to know...

Tags: Tandberg, Codian, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01