link] January 2010 January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. link] January 8, 2010 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. MORE >>

I have been reading a very interesting and comprehensive report, Semantic Software Technologies: Landscape of High Value Applications for the Enterprise by Lynda Moulton of the Gilbane group. Lynda wrote that she deliberately chose title of this study to refer to semantic software technologies not simply semantic search technologies. MORE >>

Jeff Schick, VP social software, mentioned that IBM Research has done a study on the implications of using social and infusing collaboration into commerce experience. They are connecting social with IBM commerce software. The Center for Social Software started in 2008 with strong Lotus ties. Into help desks?     MORE >>

The combination of network connectivity and new collaborative tools is enabling a new breed of workers to remain productive even without the stereotypical office life, according to Debra Chrapaty, SVP and GM of the collaboration software group at Cisco. Uncategorized Net:Work 2010office. MORE >>

Jive Software today launched what it hopes will become a Facebook-style social networking platform for businesses , complete with an activity stream for internal communications, an open API and an open application store. “Until now, most of the innovation in that area has been coming on the consumer side. MORE >>