September
An article originally posted on www.iht.com
“It’s just like living in a village, where it’s actually hard to lie because everybody knows the truth already. (…) The current generation is never unconnected. They’re never losing touch with their friends. So we’re going back to a more normal place, historically. If you look at human history, the idea that you would drift through life, going from new relation to new relation, that’s very new. It’s just the 20th century.”
Read the full article at www.iht.com
In-depth article of The Herald Tribune about the new perception of privacy induced by social media such as Facebook noticed by Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who has closely studied how college-age users are reacting to the world of awareness.
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September
An article originally posted on www.e-gineer.com
“Success is defined by what we do, not what we have the opportunity to do. Implementing a Wiki isn’t success, building an organisation that will take collective ownership and collaboratively edit content is. Technology creates opportunity for changes of behaviour and helps shift the conversation away from excuses (it’s too hard) to reasons (it’s too risky).
Frankly, at Janssen-Cilag, we don’t yet know exactly how we should be communicating and collaborating. But, we do know that the steps we’ve taken so far have improved communication, increased our flexibility and given people the power to run with ideas. We want to continue this journey, pushing more power to the edge of the organisation.”
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Nathan Wallace describes Janssen-Cilag’s approach to Enterprise 2.0 which translates into the implementation of wikis, micro-blogging and basecamp-style internal pm. His Enterprise Collaboration Maturity Model could also help give your company an idea of where it’s at within the web 2.0 revolution.
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September
An article originally posted on www.readwriteweb.com
“We’ve covered the launch of Google’s new browser Chrome extensively this week. But as we near the end of the week, one of the questions yet to be answered is how Chrome will fare in the enterprise. As we all know Google is making a strong push into the enterprise with Google Apps, which received a further boost this week with the launch of Google Video for Business.
However, there is a lot of work needed to get Chrome ready for the office. Already our readers have noticed compatibility and usability issues that will hamper enterprise adoption.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
In this article, the author evaluates the readiness of Google Chrome for use in a corporate environment. All in all, it seems to mostly come down to the lack of ActiveX support in Google’s latest browser.
Personally I think that the lack of ActiveX support is a “good” thing. It is not Google Chrome that needs to change, it is the applications using ActiveX.
With Google Chrome, the user base of Internet Explorer will most likely continue to decline, hopefully forcing vendors to finally evolve and use standard technology, making the web a better place both for users and web app developpers.
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August
An article originally posted on discussionleader.hbsp.com
“The understanding that platforms are markets is one of the most vital differences between revolutionaries and laggards across today’s strategyscape.”
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A market is a social structure developed to facilitate the “exchange of rights, services or product ownership” according to Wikipedia’s definition. Now think about this in terms of knowledge exchange and ownership.
Do you reckon the emergence of social KM software inside the enterprise will also follow this pattern by eventually resulting in such open platforms ? Would this be leading us to new forms of knowledge markets and new heights of knowledge communication/exchange ?
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August
An article originally posted on Read/WriteWeb
“The perfect storm hitting large enterprises
Large enterprise face a “perfect storm”. These are huge challenges. Start-ups that help them navigate these challenges in real and fundamental ways will do very well.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Bernard Lunn explains the story behind Enterprise 2.0 and ReadWriteWeb is launching a new channel dedicated to the topic to continue this big Story.
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August
An article originally posted on Alt Search Engines
“The more razzle dazzle you slap on a key word indexing system, the more storage, bandwidth, CPU cycles, and plumbing you will need. The way key word indexing can bring an older Pentium computer to it knees when it runs Google Desktop Search or another “free” desktop search system provides a real-life example of how search usurps resources. Even the simplest keyword indexing requires a large part of a computer’s resources when indexes are updated and rebuilt. The more users and the more content you process, the more plumbing you need. When you slap on additional content processing, you are in a poker game that you cannot win. The computational odds are stacked against you. The fix is to process less content or turn off features. Believe me, even the big guys do this. Google and Microsoft, for example, have priorities for their indexing.”
Read the full article at altsearchengines.com
Very interesting (but not that optimistic) post from Stephen E. Arnold about Search and its (no) future.
Though we might agree on some points, we believe in the future of enterprise search (I suppose you had guessed it).
I chose this extract just to say that indeed, search tools should have to process less content. And considering the enterprise as a community, the content itself should be defined by the end-users themselves. They know what is valuable. They have expertise. They should be able to share only what they think might be relevant to others. This, in my opinion, could be the fix. Sharing and indexing only what is valuable. ‘Turn up the signal, wipe out the noise’.
This would also reduce users’ dissatisfaction, and increase their engagement.
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August
An article originally posted on www.rba.co.uk
“The tag cloud brings to the fore your most used terms and it can be a shock to discover that you have placed the emphasis in totally the wrong area. It then struck me that you could do this with any form of literature - a web page, training publicity, membership recruitment forms.”
Read the full article at www.rba.co.uk
More than talking about tag clouds, I would talk about word clouds. Anyway it is indeed a great way to visualize the content of a document. Worth trying!
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July
An article originally posted on arnoldit.com
“The most interesting point in Ms. Foley’s essay was: “SharePoint is a collection of six servers that provide document collaboration, portal creation, enterprise search, enterprise content management, electronic forms creation and management and business intelligence functions (analysis and publication of business information).”
Now we know. SharePoint is complicated. Perfect for SharePoint consultants and Microsoft fans in information technology departments. SharePoint can be slightly less satisfying for users who want to use a system that is transparent, snappy, and easy to customize.”
Read the full article at arnoldit.com
Sharepoint is a well-known product, yet its complexity to be implemented in a corporation (large or small), as underlined by Mary-Jo Foley’s essay and reinforced by Arnold Stephen’s follow-up, is very often under-estimated by IT departments and further up the ladder.
In reality however, the huge amount of effort, time and money which has to be invested before getting a decent customized/usable platform now haunts many of those who have had the guts to try and get the monster truck on track. Getting it to roll in the initially wanted direction is another matter altogether!
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July
An article originally posted on Alt Search Engines
John Conroy looks at 75 alternative search engines in 14 categories, naming a “Top Dog” in each category.
See the full list at cmswire.com
Hey! Look who’s the Top Dog in Enterprise Search! How great. Though we might beat, we don’t bite. So do not hesitate to come and see us!
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July
An article originally posted on ReadWriteWeb
“The information overload problem has reached a critical point. Workers drowning in their inboxes and jumping from task to task have now cost the nation $650 billion in lost productivity. A research group attempting to understand and combat the problem has recently been formed. We can either wait for answers for them, or we can start finding solutions ourselves. Let’s do what social media addicts do best: let’s crowdsource this thing!”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
New collaboration trends and communication tools have the unfortunate side-effect of generating huge amounts of information which distract their users and as a result your employees if you are looking to adopt them inside your enterprise. Managing your employees attention should be in your top criteria when choosing these tools as well.
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