The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com ZDNet's Dennis Howlett talks about the difficulties of changing the culture of an organisation, and how this affects the success of community-building activities. As he points out, organisations often struggle to justify investing sufficient resources to this type of initiative, and then wonder [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by Angela AshendenToday Appian launched v6 of its BPMS offering, and at the same time announced it would boost its online BPM community (Appian FORUM) and also deliver additional consulting and training services focused on helping customers increase the scope and maturity of their BPM efforts. The central theme for all these announcements is “accelerating process improvement”. [...]
Posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 by adminOn the fifth attempt, I finally managed to attend CloudCamp London earlier in the week. I’m glad I went – the “camp” format isn’t for everyone, but it works well for topics like Cloud Computing where most of the value is in networking and hashing out ideas/arguments. The latter part of the evening was given [...]
Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Regarding public vs private Clouds: what he said. I have a real problem with the positioning of infrastructure that you buy, install and own yourself as “private cloud” – even if it is the kind of infrastructure that Cloud providers might install in their own data centers. The problem I have is that Cloud computing [...]
Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 by adminUncategorized
I’ve seen a lot of online conversation which has a surprised tone regarding the intended acquisition of web analytics firm Omniture by Adobe. I don’t understand the surprise. For me it’s simple, a no-brainer. Why? Look at Adobe’s mission statement, here from CEO Shantanu Narayen (italics mine): Adobe’s mission is to revolutionize how the world [...]
Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 by adminZoho today announced the release of Zoho Discussions, a community-oriented application which is based around discussions forums, but which also includes features such as tagging, bookmarking and social networking. However unlike most of Zoho’s existing collaborative applications (for example mail, instant messaging, wikis and office productivity/collaborative editing tools), Zoho Discussions is positioned specifically as a [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by Angela AshendenYammer Shows Some Microsoft Love, Launches Plug-In For Outlook And Windows Mobile App While confusion continues around the value of microblogging in business and how to differentiate its purpose from other communication/collaboration mechanisms such as email, instant messaging and wikis, Yammer continues to innovate in this market, with this news of an integration with Outlook. [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 by Angela AshendenUncategorized
We all know that the general level of industry interest in Cloud Computing is high – but how much is Cloud Computing being actively considered and pursued by “enterprise IT” organisations, as opposed to software-as-a-service startups and professional ISVs moving to the SaaS model? To help support the launch of our new Software Delivery advisory [...]
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 by adminI’m pleased to let you know that we have published a new case study to our collaboration advisory service today, which takes a look at healthcare company IPC’s recent successful rollout of Yammer’s enterprise microblogging technology. What’s great about IPC’s example is that they have done something with this emerging area of technology that they [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 by Angela AshendenSocial Media Policy and Employee Guidance « Candid CIO At a time where there is so much confusion and suspicion around the use of social media tools by employees, this is a great, practical example of how to deal with the issue in a way that treats employees as responsible technology users, while also protecting [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 by Angela Ashenden
