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- Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02
- Enterprise 2.0 is over for another year and despite a poor start, the event turned out well. I attribute the poor start to the performance of Oracle and Microsoft: two of Jevon MacDonald's 'drag queens.' Both seemed tired, dated and out of touch with the mood of the new generation...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Groupware, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Innovate Over ERP with Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Social Computing
- In this free white paper, learn how to unlock the hidden potential of SAP and other Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems to improve agility and responsiveness. Discover how the right mix of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, Business Process Management BPM, and Enterprise Social Computing can dramatically increase the return on...
- Tags: Business Process, BEA Systems Inc., BPM, Social Computing, ERP, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Middleware, Software, Business Operations, It Operations
- White papers 2008-04-21
- Yahoo!'s oneConnect: who will use it?
- Matthew Miller got excited about the preview of Yahoo!'s oneConnect at the World Mobile Congress. In Matthew's words: Yahoo's new oneConnect is one of the top pieces of software/services I saw in action. The rep was giving a demonstration on a Nokia N95 8GB device and...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Social Computing, Service, Matthew Miller, Yahoo oneConnect, Dan Farber, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Microsoft Sales Force Uses Social Computing to Share Expertise, Drive Sales
- Microsoft sales professionals couldn't find the time to attend the online sales and technology courses offered by Microsoft Academy because they are on the road all day, visiting customers. They needed a convenient way to consume information that they could integrate into their daily lives. The Academy used Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Sales Force, Social Computing, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Checking the pulse of enterprise social computing
- At todays' LeWeb 3, Marc Canter asked a panel drawn from Google, Netvibes, Plum and the European Energy Forum whether we're ready for radical change in the context of bringing the social to software. In his pre-session blog post, Marc said: The paradigm of social networking works great for...
- Tags: Social Computing, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Windows Mobile present and future, welcome to the HTC MAGIC Labs
- Introductions: Today was the first full day of discussions and presentations at the Mobius 2007 event in Amsterdam following last night's evening reception. John Starkweather started off the day by laying out the ground rules for the event where most everything was completely open and we were invited to interact...
- Tags: Chipset, High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobius, Social Computing, Qualcomm Inc., Photograph, John, MAGIC Labs, Sony Reader, Chipsets, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Watch out, there's a Dopplr about
- If you've not heard of Matt Biddulph, CTO of Dopplr then I'm guessing you will. He is building out a socially aware travel application that is currently in beta. To quote the shpiel: Dopplr is a new service for people who...
- Tags: Social Computing, Friend, Dopplr, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Note to KM people: KISS
- My post on ROI produced a series of responses from Luis Suarez. Great stuff well argued but missing the point. To quote: We should not forget that social computing is everything but tools and processes. It is all about the people! It is a philosophy, a lifestyle, i.e....
- Tags: Social Computing, ROI, Knowledge Management, Social Networking, Roi/Tco, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- ROI is so Business 1.0: not
- As social computing technologies start to make their presence felt in larger enterprises, the ROI question looms large in people's minds. Or rather the CFOs mind. Like it or not, any enterprise project is going to require a check cutting and unless it is something that goes under the departmental...
- Tags: Conversation, Social Computing, ROI, Sales, Assumption, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Social computing and product lifecycle management
- The blogs are full of praise for soon to be minted Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's thought piece about applying social computing to product lifecycle management. While I like the generality of Jeremiah's argument, I'm nervous about applying the ideas in a number of markets. At least...
- Tags: Product Lifecycle, Information Technology, Industry, Social Computing, SAP AG, Product Lifecycle Management, Jeremiah, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Naming conventions for Oracle
- It seems Jake Kuramoto is asking the nascent Oracle community to come up with names for it's new internal social computing service. Suggestions Jake likes include: * oracut (Like orkut, this one made me laugh.) * redbook * ora souls (This...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Social Computing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Will IBM compete with Facebook/Web 2.0?
- Earlier today I had a fascinating Skype conversation with Luis Suarez, a knowledge management consultant with IBM. We were chewing the fat over topic du jour Facebook/Web 2.0 and how that compares with Notes. I'm not a Notes fan. Not because it is clunky (which versions prior to v.8 most...
- Tags: Group, IBM Lotus Notes, Social Computing, IBM Corp., Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Achieving tangible business benefits with social computing
- In the age of Web 2.0, Internet users are rewriting the rules of social interacation, using blogs, forums, and social bookmarking for sharing information and sustaining relationships across borders. This IBM whitepaper looks at how organisations can achieve tangible business benefits through embracing these technologies.
- Tags: Benefit, Social Computing, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst
- Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...
- Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- Big software firms take aim at Web 2.0
- While 2006 was a big year for Web 2.0 in the consumer space, it was barely on the radar in the enterprise world. That didnt stop volumes of press coverage, speculation, and debate about how applicable Web 2.0 technologies -- from Ajax to social networking -- would actually be...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Enterprise 2.0 year in review
- Though the eponymous title of this blog refers to the application of all aspects of Web 2.0 to the enterprise both large and small, the big story this year has really been about a collaborative subset of Web 2.0, something referred to as Enterprise 2.0. Though the definition has...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Blogging, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges
- The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications. Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Design Patterns, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, SaaS, Mashups, Architecture of Participation, The Long Tail, Customer Self-Service, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, Cost-effective scalability, Collaboration, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, RSS, Social Computing, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-05
- The shift to Social Computing
- There's been a lot of interest recently in the social aspects of Web 2.0 experiences because of their tendency to alter the communities that use them. As part of tracking this, I wrote recently about McKinsey and Co.'s discussion of coming Interaction Age that discusses how optimizing for...
- Tags: social computing
- Blog posts 2006-03-12
Additional Resources
- Google trying to take privacy seriously
- This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary the same on that affected CNET earlier last month was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There's nothing Google could have done about it, but it's...
- Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Social Security, Security, Government, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- Internet abuse and Cloud Computing
- A recent uproar in the right wing blogosphere about the shutdown of anti-Obama sites on blogger.com has some serious implications for those considering cloud computing. What seems to have happened there was a simple, if pernicious, denial of service attack carried out for political reasons - but there's not much...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
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