These are my links for March 23rd through March 28th:
Sharepoint and Enterprise 2.0: The good, the bad, and the ugly | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Depending on which numbers you look at these days, about a third of all companies right now are using Enterprise 2.0-style tools to enable collaboration and management of their knowledge. This is in stark contrast to just three years ago when the only tools most workers could count on for communicating with others and sharing knowledge was e-mail, the phone, and if they were lucky, an instant messaging or content management application.
15 tools for the Gmail addict | Webware – CNET – Gmail is becoming more popular by the day, but it's far from perfect. Let's take a look at some tools that will extend its functionality and makes it an even more worthwhile service.
ExecTweets – ExecTweets is a resource to help you find and follow the top business executives on Twitter. Created by Federated Media, in partnership with Microsoft, ExecTweets is a platform that aggregates the tweets of top business execs and empowers the community to surface the most insightful, business-related tweets.
EverythingTwitter – Great tools,apps, and services built around Twitter
These are my links for March 22nd through March 23rd:
Who to Follow on Twitter | Tweet Top – Tweet Top is the latest and greatest from Twitter people on popular topics. We update the latest thinking from topic experts every 3-5 minutes.
404 Not Found – Messing about with Google Noticeboard – could be quite useful, but interface is a bit clunky http://labs.google.co.in/no…
FreshNetworks Blog – RT @mattrhodes Required Reading: Social Media ROI – Measuring the unmeasurable? http://bit.ly/sqs7P
Cognitive Edge – Seven Priciples of Knowledge Management – Knowledge can only be volunteered it cannot be conscripted.
We only know what we know when we need to know it.
In the context of real need few people will withhold their knowledge.
Everything is fragmented.
Tolerated failure imprints learning better than success.
The way we know things is not the way we report we know things.
We always know more than we can say; we will always say more than we can write down.
These are my links for March 17th through March 20th:
Noticeboard – Google Noticeboard is an application that helps people access and share information over the Internet using public digital noticeboards. Using Google Noticeboard, communities can access a variety of relevant information. People can create text messages or record voice snippets and post them to one or more noticeboards.
The Four Tenets of the Community Manager – The budding Community Manager industry holds 4 tenets; these values resonate as a common thread within the role. The include community advocation, brand ambassadorship, online communication skills, and product requirements gathering and improvements.
http://snurl.com/e4xmq – TNT contract extended despite losing personal details of 25million child benefit claimants. Ho Hum! http://snurl.com/e4xmq
These are my links for March 11th through March 17th:
Strange Attractor » Blog Archive » Businesses will live to regret their social media ignorance – here’s been a lot of discussion recently about how social media sites are now the more popular than, and even replacing, email. Earlier in March, a Nielsen survey found that 67% of people going online spent time on social networks and blogs. Now a presentation at South by SouthWest has posited how social tools such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are replacing email.
The Smarter Web (Part 2) – ReadWriteWeb – One of the most apparent trends was the emergence of several new intelligent web services. In this transitional period between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 (or whatever it is that comes next), the tools of the future are just now being revealed. Although at first glance some of these services and applications may seem somewhat incomplete, in many cases they actually represent years' worth of work to have reached the point they're at now. These are no simple Web 2.0 applications; these are highly complex and intelligent tools of tomorrow's smarter web.
Knowledge Sharing & Collective Intelligence in the Blogosphere : Victor Godot – If you should analyse the dynamics of so-called Web 2.0 (and beyond) a key factor would arise: sharing information & knowledge, and tools for obtaining more informations and gaining more knowledge.
You can read this feature as a great shift in the mentality of a generation, or perhaps just a new kind of challenge for everyone point of view and best practices.
http://ow.ly/M4e – For anyone I've been speaking to about the local gov Knowledge Hub – The Guardian Open Platform is the model I had in mind http://ow.ly/M4e
Communities and Collaboration – New blog post: Bookmarks for March 10th through March 11th http://tinyurl.com/azo8ac
Enterprise Web vs Consumer Web [2.0]: Top Six Differences – Although there is evidence that the two styles will converge in the future, enterprise and consumer Web architecture and technology are quite different today. If one talks to an enterprise application architect, he or she will probably say that while consumer Web applications are cute, simple, and sometimes useful, their architectures and technologies are merely a bunch of scripts and hacks put together. If one talks to a consumer Web architect, she or he will probably say that enterprise software is overly complex, often unusable, and based on over-priced and under-performing technologies
Harold Jarche » The Community Manager – In re-building the training function, we’ve recommended a move from content delivery to Connecting & Communicating. One role that will likely gain importance is that of Community Manager. As the electric media become embedded in our lives, we will all be constantly connected to many communities. Some of these will overlap.
Twitter in Plain English, another great video by Lee LeFever over at the CommonCraft Show. If you’re still not sure what twitter is, or whether it’s for you, this will go some way to answering your questions.
TwitteReader – TwitteReader lets you see latest tweets as feed items a la Google Reader, clicking expands full text. http://is.gd/mFyK
The Top 10 Reasons To Outsource Your Enterprise Email To Gmail Now « The “Meta” Internet: The genesis of a “virtual” Silicon Valleys leveraging the power of the Internet. – For some organizations, Gmail simply will not do. But so long as those organizations are reaching that conclusion based on fact and not FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt), that’s fine. For example, some organizations might be prevented by law from keeping their e-mail on systems that are publicly accessible through the Internet. If you’re one of those people who is willing to give Google a chance here, but you need to convince others, here is a top 10 list of reasons that should give any organization (and its CFO) pause for thought.
3ruce – RT: @3ruce: New blog post: Footage of Israeli Military Shooting Gaza Farmers http://tinyurl.com/clk3rv
Government 2.0: The Midlife Crisis – ReadWriteWeb – At the grassroots level, a group of knowledgeable insiders, the so-called "goverati," is spreading information across social networks. The recently formed Government 2.0 Club, modeled after the popular Social Media Club, will provide a further mechanism for branding events and sharing wisdom. And non-profit organizations like The Sunlight Foundation are developing applications and hosting events in an effort to make government more transparent and ultimately more accountable to the public.
These are my links for March 3rd through March 7th:
http://hootsuite.com – Manage multiple Twitter accounts with Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com
Six ways to make Web 2.0 work – The McKinsey Quarterly – Over the past two years, McKinsey has studied more than 50 early adopters to garner insights into successful efforts to use Web 2.0 as a way of unlocking participation. We have surveyed, independently, a range of executives on Web 2.0 adoption. Our work suggests the challenges that lie ahead. To date, as many survey respondents are dissatisfied with their use of Web 2.0 technologies as are satisfied.
http://snurl.com/d0hfu – Just read through recommendations in final Power of Info Report http://snurl.com/d0hfu – looks good, and commendation to task force. #poit
Why Google Will Never Be Good At Enterprise Search – When you look for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad… because of all things in the world, you only want one of them. When you look for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good… because of all the things in the world, you're sure to find some of them.
http://www.skittles.com – Is this the future of marketing through social media? Skittles campaign at http://www.skittles.com
Twitter is the fastest growing social network at the moment and gaining increasing credibility as the ‘killer app’ for 2009. Here Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, speaking at TED, describes how the project got started and how its development is continually shaped by user-driven innovations. From its original concept as a simple messaging tool it is increasingly being used to gather and disseminate information on news-breaking events. Sharing of information through the use of of hashtags is just one of the many user innovations discussed in the video.
The open API has fired the ingenuity of many small start-ups and entrepeneurs, and I see an incresing number of new applications being developed in the coming months (I’ve lost count of the number of ‘top 100 Twitter apps’ tweets from the twitterverse). It’s great to see such a buzz, and think that we’re well into the ‘Early Majority’ phase of the Everett Rogers diffusion model. As more people use it, more innovative ideas are developed with potential benefit for everyone. It will interesting to see how many new Twitter apps get developed this year. I’m guessing several thousand!
Knowledge Plaza: Sophisticated Knowledge Workspace – There are various shades, strengths and weaknesses to competing software packages, with vendors catering to different user segments and market success often defining the direction of their products.
Knowledge Plaza is a relatively new offering in the enterprise collaboration space and offers a very sophisticated set of tools aimed primarily at knowledge workers, and whose development has been influenced by a very large international consulting company.
Business Twitter Resources – Best Collections – The “best of the best” resources for Twitter. The key to Twitter that you need to keep in mind during this learning process is that Twitter is not a complex communication platform. It is a very simplistic communication tool.
It is like a hammer used to pound nails and smash things. It has a million different ways it can be used.
Enterprise Search Summit 2009 – Stephen Dale, Associate Consultant at the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) for local government will be giving a presentation on how Exalead’s API online search functionality has been integrated into its Communities of Practice (CoP) Platform. Many online communities have been established by local authority, regional and IDeA staff. Community facilitators can now generate a “favorite” list of websites for members that are used as the basis of their domain-specific online searches. This improves precision and relevance of results, since only CoP member-recommended websites are included in the search. The effect is that all members of the CoP—all 411 councils in local government in England and Wales—have access to a collectively agreed set of favorite websites for domain-specific websites as opposed to the entire web.
Communities and Collaboration – New blog post: Bookmarks for February 23rd through February 24th http://tinyurl.com/ajusjz
