Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Passion and Reason This short essay is deeper and more eloquent than I could write, but it speaks directly to how I feel about the job I do and what drives me to make our company different in what we do. The quote that does it for me: "Passion frames [...]
Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2010 by adminEnterprise Social Media Usage Policies and Guidelines | SocialComputingJournal.com This article by Laurel Papworth includes an excellent collection of usage policies published by various organisations on how their employees should be using social media tools and online communities, while drawing out the main topics across these policies and some of the fundamental issues you need [...]
Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 by Angela AshendenA week or so I made a lightning-fast trip from London to Boston to attend Progress’ industry and financial analyst day – primarily to hear about how the company’s acquisition of Savvion might affect (positively or negatively) its “One Progress” transformation. As I blogged about previously, Progress has – by design – long been a [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonAvaya and Polycom to Jointly Develop and Market Video and Voice Communications Systems An interesting announcement from Avaya and Polycom, particularly given Cisco's acquisition of Polycom's competitor Tandberg. This relationship makes a lot of sense, and I can't help thinking that this is the first step in an even closer relationship… M&A anyone? (tags: collaboration [...]
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 by Angela AshendenJust a quick note to say that I’m honoured to have been asked to provide a keynote presentation at the upcoming CloudSlam ’10 virtual conference being held from March 23-25. My presentation is scheduled for 11am ET / 8am PT on March 23rd and is titled “Cloud forecasting: models, predictions, pitfalls and planning”. More details [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonSocialtext launches next version of enterprise social software platform With Socialtext 4.0, the company is embracing the online communities model through the introduction of "Groups". This release also builds on the capabilities of Socialtext Signals, by adding filtering and searching of Signals posts. (tags: socialtext social_software collaboration)
Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Angela AshendenJive Software launches Jive Ideation Jive continues to build up its solutions-based approach to social software for the enterprise with this offering which provides a platform for sharing and exploring ideas within the broader framework of the communities environment. This is part of a growing trend within this space to talk more about the application [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
