• CONVERSATION MATTERS  |  SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012
    Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation
    In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. But between 2000 and 2008 knowledge management did not help GM bring that organizational knowledge together in a way that could have saved it from bankruptcy. Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy. Why didn’t KM save General Motors?
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
    My App Gap Posts for April 2012
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for April. There will be more in May. Provides Online Exposure and Distribution for Emerging Bands. Alfresco Brings its Open Source Document Management to the Cloud.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
    Wiggio snags one million users, pilots new premium service
    So how did the company, founded by a team of Cornell grads in 2008, gain its sizable following? As far as collaboration tools go, Wiggio isn’t flashy. There’s little grandiose talk of democratizing organizations or exploding silos coming out of the company, but what there does appear to be is a fair amount of success.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
    The Enduring Nature of Blogs and Blogging
    500 had a corporate blog, up from 45% in 2009 and 39% in 2008.  Nora Ganim Barnes and her colleagues at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have looked at business blogs for some time. In 2010 50% of the Inc.   Now in 2011, the use of blogging dropped to 37%.  
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
    A Coachella “Fail-ble”: Do We Hold Spectrum in Common?
    Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom’s eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. Neon Indian at Coachella last weekend. Last weekend I had the distinct pleasure of taking two days off the grid and heading to a music festival called Coachella. ”). But what of bits?
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012
    Evernote and Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad
    It launched in 2008 with funding of $7 million, and has since grown to 3 million registered users and a staff of 17. Springpad has long been compared to Internet note-taking sensation Evernote , but starting today Springpad will likely be compared to another darling of the startup world, visually oriented social network Pinterest. tablet
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012
    My App Gap Posts for March 2012
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for March. There will be more in April. IBM Connections Conversations – 3: Analytics + Social. Cisco Extends Its Cloud Collaboration Strategy.    
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012
    Awareness Offers Its Social Media Command Center
    The most recent was in 2008 - Awareness Summer 08 Release Brings Sharepoint Integration and New Features. I have covered  Awareness, Inc.  a number of times but it has been a while since we talked. In those days they provided a comprehensive community platform. recently spoke with Mike Lewis of Awareness about their capabilities.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012
    SXSW Notes: Positively Inspired Change Campaigns
    The Obama campaign of 2008 was a positive one and it won. Here is another in my series on SXSW events. am pleased to be attending SXSW for the first time. am grateful for Adobe Acrobat for enabling me to attend. will be attending some Adobe sponsored sessions. Here is the session description. This is much better that campaigns based on pity.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012
    Are women better suited to the gig economy?
    ” The same goes for creativity: According to a 2008 Pew Research Center survey… sixty-four percent of Americans declared women more creative, and 11 percent declared men more creative. No economic change is good for everyone. It’s still a leg up: “As an independent contractor, it pays to be empathetic.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
    My App Gap Posts for February 2012
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for February. There will be more in March. Are Mobile Users Supported on the Enterprise Level? Awareness Provides Social Media Command Center. harmon.ie  
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012
    My Favorite Tweets for February 16 - 29 2012
    RT @rossdawson : RT @jayrosen_nyu : If 2008 was social media, 2012 will be "data election." Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.  spot tested the reduced shortened urls and they all should work. hope this is also useful for you.  link].
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012
    International Association of School Librarianship 2012 Conference; Qatar; cfp
    The International Association of School Librarianship 2012 Conference takes place in Doha, Qatar, November 11-15, 2012. There is a call for papers. The theme is The Shifting Sands of School Librarianship and the major strands are: Internationalism, Innovation and Creativity, Collaboration, and Literacies and Fluencies. cfp events
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012
    Information Literacy in LIS curriculum
    2008) "Educating Web 2.0 2008) "LIS Education in Europe : Challenges and Opprtunities". I found a copy of this book chapter, which had vanished from its original location (previously blogged): - Virkus, S., Boekhorst, A. Gomez-Hernandez J.A., Skov, A. and Webber, S. 2005) “Information literacy and learning.” In: Kajberg, L. pp65-83.
  • ANECDOTE   |  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012
    Strategic stories provide the gist
    Drew Westen (2008). People need the gist: the context, the big picture, the why, before the details become important or meaningful. Read this piece of text from Drew Westen's book 'The Political Brain'.(1). The procedure is actually quite simple. First you arrange things into different groups. It is important not to overdo things. link].
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
    The Truth According To Wikipedia
    It was screened in 2008. The Truth According To Wikipedia is a 48 minute documentary from the Dutch media company VPRO's current affairs series. It includes opinions from various perspectives. link]. Thanks to Kevin Sheehan for alerting me to this. Photo by Sheila webber: Ducks on semi-frozen Amstel, Amsterdam, February 2012.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012
    7 compelling reasons to become self-employed
    I recently noticed that a blog post I did back in 2008 on the joys of self-employment has been getting some solid traffic lately. In the post I ran through the history of how I came to work for myself, and gave 7 reasons that matter to me for why I infinitely prefer to work for myself rather than someone else. can be myself. control my life.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
    Why we are buying paidContent
    In 2008, we acquired jkOnTheRun as our tip of the hat to the growing demand for mobile devices and the changes it would bring into society. First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. The ethos of paidContent and our company are in sync. Clay Shirky.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
    Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business are Hollow Shells without Democracy
    In 2008, some of the best known management experts were brought together to “ lay out an agenda for reinventing management “. Tweet A guiding goal in much of my work is the democratization of the workplace. Democracy Democracy is our best structure for political governance and I believe it should be the basis of our workplaces as well.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012
    The initial design influences everything else
    Rodney Fulton responded, when I originally  wrote this post  in 2008: I found it very interesting that some 17 years after I published the SPATIAL Model in a Jossey-Bass publication there was discussion that included the model. But again, it was gratifying to see my model referenced in 2008. Who decided how (if) it should be built?
  • WWW.ZDNET.COM  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
    Enterprise 2.0 Success: Alcatel-Lucent
    The 80,000-worker telecommunications giant began adopting social media inside the organization as far back as 2008. But Alcatel isn’t stopping at basic social collaboration
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
    My App Gap Posts for January 2012
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for January. There will be more in February. SpringCM Offers Enhanced Support for Salesforce.com and Enhances Its Mobile Capabilities.  
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
    What Happens When Sharing Is Turned Off? People Don’t Dance.
    Back in 2008 I was a founding partner in a new kind of social music experiment we called “ CrowdFire.” Thanks to partners like Microsoft, Intel, SuperFly, Federated Media and scores of individuals, CrowdFire actually happened at Outside Lands, both in 2008 and in 2009. But there you have it. But more on that later.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
    Shifts in 2011 Inc. 500 Social Media Usage
    500 had a corporate blog, up from 45% in 2009 and 39% in 2008.  I have been writing about the work of Nora Ganim Barnes and her colleagues at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for some time. See my last post on them: Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies?
  • SOCIAL-BIZ.ORG  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012
    John Hagel on Social Technology Adoption | Collaborative Planning & Social Business
    December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. July 2008. June 2008. May 2008. April 2008. March 2008. January 2008. Collaborative Planning & Social Business. Empowering office workers to be more efficient, adaptive, and effective. Skip to content. Enterprise 2.0
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012
    Information Literacy in the Workplace
    The new issue of Education Libraries , the open-access journal published by the Education Division of the (US) Special Libraries Association, focuses on workplace information literacy. This is Volume 34, Number 2; Winter 2011. USA workplace Information Literacy
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    Google Responds: No,That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken)
    ” But personalized search has broken that framework – I lamented this back in 2008 with this post: Search Was Our Social Glue. ( image ) I’ve just been sent an official response from Google to the updated version of my story posted yesterday ( Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete? ). And Google Pages, Maps, etc.
  • WWW.DACHISGROUP.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
    101 Examples of Social Business ROI
    Forrester, 2008). Community drove High School segment sales increased 40 percent from 2008 – 2009; portfolio mix of high school students increased by 27 percent. Forrester, 2008). Forrester, 2008). Communispace, 2008). Forrester, 2008). Communispace, 2008). IBM, 2008). Collaboratory.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012: The Roundup
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. ( image ) As promised, here are all my predictions in one place. I’ve written a brief overview of each as well. Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Twitter will become a force as a media company, not just a platform for others’ media. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #7: Shooting From The Hip
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. This year I tried something new with my predictions, writing deeper posts on each one. got to six, but I underestimated how long it would take to write 1,000 or so words for each post. I’m pushing past 10,000 words for the past week, and “predictions season” is pretty much over.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #6: “The Corporation” Becomes A Central Societal Question Mark
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. Amidst all the chaos, tragedy, and tumult that was 2011, I noticed one very clear theme: Most of us are struggling with the role corporations play in our society. The 14th Amendment (yes, the one that banished slavery) established corporations, in the US, as “persons” in the legal sense.
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012
    January 2012: What’s Happened/Happening?
    The second project is an update of a paper that we co-authored in 2008 with Charlie Grantham: “ Flexible Work: Rhetoric and Reality.” Recent Activity. Work on the Move discussion group. Jim wrote a core chapter on change management, and he led the “conversation with the authors” session at World Workplace. Research on the Future of Work.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. ( image ) One of the things that pops out of the “Big Five” chart I just posted, at least if you stare at it a bit, are the places where each company needs to get strong, quickly. Apple is weak in social and one dimensional in ad solutions. Amazon needs help in devices, social, and OS.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. By some Mayan accounts, 2012 is not going to be a good year for any of us. But in this prediction, I’m going to focus on one company that will have a pretty crazy year: Google. It all adds up to a massive challenge that I think will come to a head in 2012. Yikes. Predictions 2011. 2009 How I Did.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. For my third prediction of the year, I’m going with one just a tad bit less obvious than “Facebook will go public.” I’ve argued that Facebook ought to be a public company , if only to be held (somewhat) accountable given all the data it has on our lives. Predictions 2011.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
    Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. My predictions this year will be pretty focused on the Internet Big Five (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) but the first two focus on Twitter. Because Twitter is poised to become a critical “free radical” whose presence affects the actions of all the Big Five players.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012
    Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2012 is going to be a year of contrasts – of consolidation of power for the Internet Big Five , and fragmentation and disruption of that power due to both startups as well as government and consumer action. Well, because I’d like to dig in a bit on each. Let me break this into two parts.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011
    Abstract: Social Capital (Key Ideas)
    2008). Field, J. Social Capital (2nd ed.). Routledge. Abstract. John Field is Director of the Division of Academic Innovation and Continuing Education at the University of Stirling. His book, Social Capital, is part of a complimentary collection of essays to the series, Key Sociologists. He is best known for the book, “Bowling Alone”. 
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for December 2011
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for December. There will be more in January. Acquia Ads New Components to the Acquia Network for Drupal Users. Wrike Brings Collaboration to Project Management.
  • WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET  |  SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2011
    In The Next Version - A Look Back At 2011 In Social Software
    2008 called and file sharing is hot again. In The Next Version. Alan Lepofskys blog about technology, travel and the occasional golf post. About. Look Back At 2011 In Social Software. December 25 2011 10:00:00 AM. Add/Read Comments [0]. The items below are in no particular order. Id love to hear your comments, additions, etc. Well see. Tweet.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
    Webcast of talk by Alison Head
    Since 2008, as part of our ongoing study at the University of Washington’s Project Information Literacy, we have surveyed more than 10,000 students at 40 colleges and universities (including undergraduates enrolled at Harvard College). On January 10 2012 Alison J. The talk will be at 12.30 events
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011
    2011 Predictions: How Did I Do?
    2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. ( image ) For many years now I’ve made predictions, and for just as many years I review how I did. This is the week I do the reviewing, my predictions for 2012 should arrive around the New Year, assuming I find the right inspiration. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. Why no angry nerds?
  • WWW.THECONTENTECONOMY.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2011
    The Content Economy: Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture
    2008. The Content Economy. Pages. About. Speaking. Presentations. Writings. Contact. Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture. Tightly controlled communication flows. Hence it is unthinkable that an employee will communicate directly with the CEO, and vice versa. By Oscar Berg. SUMMIT.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011
    Mock Thesis Proposal: Personal Support Networks During Periods Of Employee Transition, Part 2
    In 2008, I conduced a field research project that leveraged contextual design and contextual inquiry methods to examine social networking trends within the enterprise. This post is Part 2 of my Mock Thesis Proposal. Part 1 is located here. The Abstract is repeated. Abstract. Methodology. Relevant Experience and Expertise. Bibliography.
  • LINKED INTELLIGENCE  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    LinkedIn: More than a Numbers Game
    That was circa April/May 2008. After last week’s post , readers made some excellent comments regarding the value of large networks. couple of people seemed to think that the focus of my post was entirely about numbers, and so I am back to clarify. It’s not about the numbers and it sure isn’t about me!
  • WWW.SOCIALNOMICS.NET  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011
    Myth: To Be Heard, Talk. Truth: To Be Heard, Listen.
    In Jim Tobin’s book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party (CreateSpace, 2008), he observes that the best hosts are the ones who ask questions and listen. “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for November 2011
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for November. There will be more in December. Traackr Introduces Comprehensive Analytics. QlikTech Brings Business Intelligence Capabilities to the Business User.  
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011
    “We need some angry nerds”
    This is a little for the better, and much for the worse… …in 2008, Apple announced a software development kit for the iPhone. Jonathan Zittrain has an important op ed up on Harvard’s site , and I hope all of you will go read it. For example, apps that emulated or even improved on Apple’s own apps weren’t allowed.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011
    Should mobile operators give up on voicemail?
    Pennsylvania’s Immix Wireless has been using You Mail since 2008, offering its cloud mailbox service to all customers and distributing its more sophisticated Visual Voicemail Plus apps to its smartphone customers. Viaero Wireless has taken a “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach to voicemail. YouMail Android client.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
    Literature Review: Improving Work Practices in Times of Change
    While this level of individual observation by others, some of whom could be strangers, appears intrusive, it can actually be viewed as a form of control and empowerment (Albrechtslund, 2008). 2008). Below is the literature review submitted today for my Understanding Media Studies course. Next up: a mock thesis due early December. .
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
    Is telework feeling the economic squeeze?
    When compared with a recent report from WorldatWork , which indicates that the overall number of teleworkers declined between 2008 and 2010, a trend emerges. For exactly all of its obvious benefits to productivity , the environment and even the bottom line, telecommuting has experienced explosive growth. According to 2009 U.S. as well?
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
    Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies?
    This study continues their annual research started in 2008 they released one of the first studies of the Fortune 500 (F500) adoption. This is another in the great series of studies on social media use in business and elsewhere (see for example, Social Media Use Continues to Expand in US Higher Education ). million fans.    
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
    DocuTicker Offers Tips on Knowledge Management
    Another useful document is Global Operating Models for Managing Knowledge Work (2008) from Deloitte. Free Pint Limited  is a UK-based publisher serving different niches within the global information industry.    It publishes tips, articles, research and resources to help information professionals do their work.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011
    Sheffield University, Information Literacy and IBL
    2008) Information Literacy. At the moment I am in Edmonton, Canada, preparing presentations for the Augustana Information Literacy workshop at the University of Alberta, Canada. This is why there has been a couple of days gap in my blogging. It is colder here than in the UK: here is a picture from today. University of Sheffield.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for October 2011
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for October. There will be more in November.   IBM Rational Drives Software Development Collaboration and Innovation. Leslie Owens on Enterprise Search.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011
    Infolit and ICT articles
    2008) Integrating Technology Literacy and Information Literacy. A blog called International Schools and ICT has been regularly posting abstracts of research articles: an interesting mix. link]. On the day I last looked, the item was: Sharkey, J. and Brandt, D.S. In: Rivoltella, P. Hershey: IGI Publishing. pp85-97.
  • NANCY WHITE  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011
    Reflecting on #socialartists and #change11
    Here is a quote from him from 2008 on David Wilcox’s blog which really resonates for me: “The key success factor we’ve found is learning citizenship where learning citizenship is a personal commitment to seeing how we are as citizens in this world. My week facilitating #change11 , a very massive MOOC, flew by too fast for me to blink.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
    Annotated Bibliography: Background For Literature Review Project
    2008). Due to the storm and subsequent outages that hit CT last week, my annotated bibliography is not as complete as I originally intended but it's almost there. There are several additional resources I plan to add. References. Albrechtslund, A. Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance. First Monday, 13(3). boyd, d. video).
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
    Video as Grammar: The Supercut
    Since 2008, I’ve added every supercut I could find to a  sprawling blog post. As early as 2003, which was the first year I began writing this site, I wrote about the idea of “video as grammar.” In order for this to happen, a number of things had to fall in place. For now. One to watch.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011
    Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights
    No wonder 2008 was such a (continuing) disaster. As part of the work I’m doing for my book, I’ve been working with my research manager, LeeAnn Prescott, staring at various charts and graphs related to how we’ve funded our “Commons” over the past half century or so. Very interesting. Is it? Enjoy.
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011
    Connect, exchange, contribute
    Tweet Highlights from Skills for Learning & Development Professionals (an article I wrote for T&D Magazine in 2008). My experiences over the past three years have shown that these skills are still necessary in the workplace. This is an acceptance of a world in flux and that knowledge is neither constant nor fixed. Critical Thinking.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011
    Socialtext Continues to Focus on Workplace Integration
    Eugene said that when Socialtext Signals and its microblogging capability, was introduced in 2008 the focus was on integration from the start. I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. tools. needs to do to move beyond Web 2.0  
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2011
    9Slides combines video with slide presentations online
    9Slides isn’t the first company to attempt the mashup of presentations: Omnisio , acquired by Google in 2008, enabled the same sort of functionality, but it was shut down and its technology was rolled into the YouTube video editor and YouTube annotations. But there are few good ways to share both after a presentation is given.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2011
    Help Me Interview Michael Dell, CEO, Dell (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
    Since then, Dell has redoubled its efforts in tablets and mobile, reworked its product line to compete with Apple's resurgent MacBooks, but seen his stock price only slightly recover since the 2008 recession. That said, Dell has to be happy about the on again, off again approach taken to the PC business by its primary competitor, HP.
  • ROSSDAWSONBLOG.COM  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011
    Compulsory viewing: A CEO perspective on the business value of internal social networks | Trends in the Living Networks
    Ross, To reinforce your perspective see this Best Buy the Company as Wiki (2008) video.  Future of Media Report 2008. December 2008 (10). November 2008 (31). October 2008 (14). September 2008 (12). August 2008 (13). July 2008 (20). June 2008 (21). May 2008 (17). April 2008 (21).
  • LIBRARY CLIPS  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011
    The future of work is to freelance within an organisation - choose your task, assemble to work, then dissolve
    The future of work thinking, or real enterprise 2.0 thinking covers many points in the shift of current organisational design; just ask Jon Husband , Gary Hamel and Deb Lavoy. John Hagel describes this knowledge worker 2.0 shift well: In those days, the role of the individual was to follow instructions. Service is quite different. Freelance.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for September 2011
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.    Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for September. There will be more in October. Exploring the Many Levels of Business Intelligence. Moxie Provides a Social Workspace Through Employees Spaces.  
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
    Rondee offers both scheduled and on-demand conference calls
    We last wrote about Rondee in 2008. There’s one notable change from 2008: Users do have to sign up to use the service, but it is a quick and easy process. One free service that has been around for several years now is  Rondee. We Here’s a look at what Rondee offers today. On Demand. Scheduled. Premium. Pros and cons?
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
    We are (still) the solution to the problem
    Tweet In 2008 (just before the financial crisis), Jay Cross noted many dysfunctional workplace practices in a survey of 237 respondents worldwide. Is this still the state of the workplace? working in organizations that are slow to change. Does this resemble an organization you work for, or work with? The second-best time is today.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
    Angry Birds and productivity at work: why distractions can help
    While many companies soon reversed their hastily-enforced bans on Facebook back in 2007 and 2008, someone told me that their employer had just a few weeks ago rescinded their ban on Facebook. On Friday a journalist from the Herald Sun called me to ask for my response to an ‘analysis’ suggesting that $1.4
  • BOXES AND ARROWS  |  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
    Alignment Diagrams
    Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. 2] Indi Young, Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008). Did you ever get bounced around between departments when interacting with a company or service? Each blamed the other. got caught in the middle. None of it seemed coordinated.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for August 2011
    The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.  Here are my AppGap posts for August.   Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for August. There will be more in September. Endeca Moves Beyond Deterministic BI Reporting. Interact Provides Robust Intranet 2.0.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
    The Internet of things will dwarf the Internet of people
    In 2008 the number of devices connected to the Internet surpassed the number of people connected, and in 2020 there will be 50 billion things connected, 7 times the world’s population, according to Dave Evans of Cisco. Pervasive connectivity, and the amazing things we will be able to do with that, will shape our lives.
  • KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK  |  MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2011
    The Billion Dollar Solution
    Rob Newbold's 2008 book Billion Dollar Solution is one of the better guides to Critical Chain Project Management I have read. It doesn't get deep into the theory, which I don't need. thought Newbold did a good job of describing both the how of implementing CCPM and the why behind his thinking.
  • THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG  |  THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2011
    A 3-Step Process for Learning From the Depths
    I was contacted this morning about doing a presentation on an old post of mine, " On Becoming a More Reflective Individual Practitioner ," so I re-read what I'd written back in 2008. One paragraph I quoted in the post really stood out for me. Sometimes it's all we can do to just stay with the experience, let alone learn from it.
  • THE FASTFORWARD BLOG  |  SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011
    So what happened in 4 years of writing for Fast Forward Blog?
    wrote the Twitter Guide for FF in December of 2008. In my first post in July of 2007, I asked myself  - What were all these new tools going to be about? For when the steam engine arrived, I am sure the Steam Geeks, all talked about pressure, bearings etc. But steam changed the world. It forced us to use the clock. We have stressed adoption.
  • WWW.DUPERRIN.COM  |  TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011
    Enterprise 2.0 : adoption through social routine | Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad
    Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0 Home About Contact Categories About blogosphere about france About me About this blog Books I read Case management Collaborative practices Communication Communities Corporate blogging economy enterprise 2.0 entrepreneurship HR & Management 2.0
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011
    UNESCO Media & Information Literacy: report 3
    2008). This continues my report from the meeting, held on 11th August in San Juan, Puerto Rico, about developing Media and Information Literacy indicators (the meeting was organised by IFLA and UNESCO). He started by identifying some initiatives that provided a rationale for UNESCO being interested in MIL. Some of the related statistics (e.g.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011
    Social Media Use Continues to Expand in US Higher Education
    In 2008 that figure dropped to 22%. A new study by Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Lescault, Social Media Adoption Soars as Higher-Ed Experiments and Reevaluates Its Use of New Communications Tools , provides some useful results. They began to look at this issue in 2007. Podcasting is also up rising from 22% to 41% in just one year.
  • WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET  |  TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011
    IBM Connections statistics 2011
    Social Networking In Ibm 20091026 Final 1037 views Journey of Collaboration, Lotusphere Israël 2008 2194 views My developer works 40 views My developer works 1053 views Lotus connections overview with roadmap 524 views Web2.0 SlideShare. Present yourself. Copy Old embed code ? Copy Close We have emailed the verification/download link to " ".
  • THE FASTFORWARD BLOG  |  MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011
    The State Street View on Impact of Emerging Technology on Financial Services
    Using Technology to Adapt to the New Regulatory Environment section examines the review of electronic trading by regulators following the start of the financial crisis in 2008. State Street Corporation is known for banking and one of the reasons that Boston is a financial services hub on global scale. Enterprise 2.0
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011
    The Future of The Internet (And How to Stop It) - A Dialog with Jonathan Zittrain Updating His 2008 Book
    While written in 2008, this is an ever-more important book, for many reasons, in that it makes a central argument about what we've built so far, and where we might be going if we ignore the lessons we've learned as we've all enjoyed this E-ticket ride we call the Internet industry. After I read it, I was inspired to email Jonathan. Apple.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for July 2011
    am also writing in another Corante blog, FastForward (see right side bar for links), The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.  Here are my AppGap posts for July.   Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for July. There will be more in August.
  • WWW.SOCIALTEXT.COM  |  TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011
    Companies Aren’t Communities | Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext
    Contact Sales +1 (650) 331-7307 | Login Enterprise Social Software Blog Try Socialtext Today All Posts Application Development Customer Success Enterprise 2.0 News & Events Product Updates Tips & Tricks Enterprise 2.0 They aren’t forums. Companies are companies. Why does the difference matter? Let’s look at the numbers. deploy
  • BROWSE.WORKLITERACY.COM  |  SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2011
    Knowledge Work Emergent Collaboration - Work Literacy
    Jon Husband - Wednesday, November 5, 2008 READ MORE Collaboration is work Tweet As I get together with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues here in California, I really appreciate all of the connecting and conversing we’ve done over the past two years, as our shared experiences ease the path to further collaboration. 360 Degree Reviews.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2011
    Evernote prepares for phase 2: become a productivity platform
    While the company has offered an API to developers since 2008, it is now finally embracing its role as a platform and is prepared to talk about how it wants to proceed with its ecosystem of 6,000 developers and 600 third-party apps and products. company, which has grown to 12 million users and is adding a million new users a month.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JULY 4, 2011
    My App Gap Posts for June 2010
    am also writing in another Corante blog, FastForward (see right side bar for links), The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.  Here are my AppGap posts for June.   Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for June. There will be more in July. Conference.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011
    The World Is An Internet Startup Now
    This is what we meant when we chose " Web Meets World " for the theme of the 2008 Web 2 Summit, but it's really happening now, at least in my world. ( image ) Last night I got to throw a party, and from time to time, that's a pretty fun thing to do. Here are some pics if you want to see the crowd.). Let me try to explain. Why did I do that?
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011
    Chrome breaks 20 percent global browser market share
    That’s an impressive result for Google’s WebKit-based browser, which was only released in December 2008. Google’s Chrome browser is continuing to grow in popularity. According to StatCounter, a website analytics company, Chrome is now used by a fifth of Internet users worldwide, taking 20.7 percent in June 2009.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011
    My Favorite Tweets for June 15 - 30 2011
    Bruins join Patriots (2001, 2003 and 2004), Red Sox (2004 and 2007) + Celtics (2008) as World Champs #Boston. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.  spot tested the reduced shortened urls and they all should work. hope this is also useful for you. 
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011
    Study: Dads turning to web work to relieve work-life conflict
    The researchers note that despite the popular conception that work-life balance stress is worse for moms, in 2008 the National Study of the Changing Workforce found “that fathers in dual-earner couples feel significantly greater work-life conflict than mothers, and this level of conflict has risen steadily.”. In some ways, yes.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2011
    The next generation of computer interfaces will drive better remote collaboration
    Among the numerous blog posts I have written about the evolution of interfaces , in 2008 I wrote about how the user interface featured in the film ‘Minority Report’ had been created by John Underkoffler, who had designed the concept for the film. Remote collaboration is absolutely the right application. ve Seen It. Used It.
  • ANECDOTE   |  SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2011
    Knowing which movie to choose your analogy from
    The Dark Knight (2008). An effective business storytelling tactic is to tell a story from a movie as an analogy. Just pick a film scene that conveys your message and tell it. My walking buddy, Darren Woolley, shared this nice example with me. This is how Darren describes what they do. Do you know the film Pulp Fiction? Pulp Fiction (1994).
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011
    My, My, Time Does Fly
    We didn't start FM to be Facebook, (the Independent Web is pretty much the ying to Facebook's yang) but it's nice to know our ideas have not only gained currency, they've become the de facto currency of digital marketing.When Twitter took off in 2008, FM was there, creating the first brand integration, with our partner Microsoft.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011
    Communication app Convos shutting down: What are the alternatives?
    Samuel liked its beta back in 2008. Convos, a group communication tool that I covered back in 2009 , has notified its customers by email that it will be shutting down as of June 30, 2011. Our growth has been steady, and we’ve definitely had our share of growing pains. Wiggio. Groupsite. GroupSpaces. Discuss This. OnlineGroups.net.
  • BLOG.SEMANTICFOUNDRY.COM  |  SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2011
    The Social Software Primer: 13 Books You Must Read | Semantic Foundry, LLC
    Further, to discuss strategy and design patterns in social media site architecture/design and their impact on human behavior requires at the very least a general understanding of the writing on topics concerning sociology, social networking theory, anthropology and marketing. Until now, at least, I have not seen a list compiled of essential reading.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011
    iOS 5 from an Android owner’s perspective
    Instead of connecting a new device to the computer for setup and sync, iOS 5 will support direct setup over a wireless network, akin to how Google Android devices have worked since launching in 2008. migrated to Android when it became mature enough for me. In general though, I’m impressed with what Apple has done. Wireless sync for all.
  • WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
    Building Social Business: ROI of Enterprise 2.0 at Accenture
    Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. at Accenture Tweet My friend Karthik S recently shared a very interesting page on Accenture about their Social Software and how it benefit them. enterprise2.0
  • WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
    Building Social Business: Social Intranet: Collaboration in the social context of Enterprise 2.0 using Qontext
    Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. using Qontext Tweet The week before last I was given a demo by the folks at Qontext on their social intranet and social sales product. Whats Your Cause?
  • WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
    Building Social Business: Thoughts on Enterprise 2.0 and the Social Intranet
    Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. and the Social Intranet Tweet Image by Ed Yourdon via Flickr What is the difference between Enterprise 2.0 and a "social" intranet? While E2.0 India License.
 

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