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Aug
25
2011

"The tech world is just getting started with its own full launch - a love affair complete with predictions, trends, and already a roster of tools and services."

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  • People are spending more time in social networks - and getting stuff done there, too. Which means that many of the activities that used to happen in mall stores, while on the phone with friends possibly, or through just solitary search, are now happening as a social experience.
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Jun
20
2011

"Most intranet search delivers lamentably poor results. Time and time again, I hear staff plead: "Why can't we just get Google?" But buying Google-or any other search engine for that matter-will not solve the problem.

There are three reasons why Google works so well, and two of them have absolutely nothing to do with technology. Certainly, Google is a great technology. It is well designed, fast, robust."

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  • The next time you search with Google, pause for a moment and observe the first 10 results. No matter what you have searched for you can be pretty much guaranteed that every one of those first 10 results wanted to get found.
  • Not alone did they want to get found, they worked hard to get found. They created web content in a way that maximizes its chances of getting into the first page of search results. Most intranet content doesn't want to get found.
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Jun
15
2011

"Q: What is an intranet?

A: An internal website that helps employees get stuff done.

That’s it. Simple, clear, everyday language. That’s what an intranet is and that’s all you’ll ever need to say to explain an intranet to most employees (or your retired uncle when he asks what you’re doing for work these days)."

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    • James Robertson, perhaps the world’s foremost authority on intranets, says that intranets have 5 purposes:

       
      • Content (e.g. policy documents)
      • Communication (e.g. corporate news)
      • Activity (e.g. expense form)
      • Collaboration (e.g. project wiki)
      • Culture (e.g. noon hour jogging club)
       

  • let’s keep it simple and straightforward. An intranet is an internal website that helps employees get stuff done.
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Jan
25
2011

"Firstly, we released a white paper by noted futurist and change agent Geoffrey Moore on Systems of Engagement and the Future of Enterprise IT. The report posed some challenging questions about the world of Systems of Record. It reflected on the ground that we have all been tilling for the ast 20 years and its connection (or some would speculate, lack thereof) to the new world of Systems of Engagement, aka Social Business aka Enterprise 2.0 (so as not to offend any of the legions of consultants who are currently battling over the right term).

Secondly, I spent a good deal of time with a reporter from a major business publication who was interested in the rumors that a major bank (speculation was Bank of America or J.P. Morgan or Citigroup) was the next Wikileaks target. One of the issues we discussed was what this meant for the future of social media. Other than, of course, the obvious conclusion that one should be very suspect of anyone in your organization lip synching to Lady Gaga, who has the largest Twitter following in the world -- 7,829,385 followers."

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  • But all this social information and content is something that needs management and governance. I hate to even say this, for fear it may put me in the not cool part of the social crowd. Probably the adult version of the crowd I hung around in when I was an all-state bass clarinetist in high school.
  • But sooner or later, we are going to have to getting serious about how we want to manage social content. Because the tension to keep it all (to improve the knowledge base of the organization) vs. the tension to get rid of it all as quickly as possible (to keep the lawyers at bay) is going to escalate quickly. This content is valuable to the business. This content is most likely not a record in the ARMA sense (although some might be). But it is electronically stored information in the FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) sense. And for organizations that do "social" well, there will be a hell of a lot of it.
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Oct
1
2010

A business (or non-profit) or government can use these four approaches as a starting point and have different kind of social conversations.

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  •  Some thoughts to keep in mind: these categories are not watertight. Over a period of time, for example, category 2 would develop a core community of people who interact and converse with each other. category 3 would slowly develop into category 4 too.
  • Designing Organizations 2.0: The Content-Community Social Media Model
Jul
12
2010

"The convergence of content stores, portal frameworks, combined with powerful context-aware publishing systems and social interactions, is pushing traditional ECM, WCM, Portal, and E2.0 vendors to rely upon a new generation of integrated “Composite Content Platforms” (also called “Content–enabled Enterprise Portals” or “Content Application Servers”)."

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  • 8. Social and Collaboration Services
    One of the recent goals of any composite content platforms is to let developers rapidly socialize their applications. Most so-called E2.0 software employ a top-down approach focused on the added value of adopting an enterprise social network that mimic Facebook rather than promoting the integration of social as a service.
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Jun
18
2010

"Folks are sometimes surprised to learn about how large our team is, or how it’s structured, mostly because they’re thinking of community management as it’s always been. But we’ve got it threaded into our organization a little differently, based on what we think community management should be about in today’s business. Let’s take a look at some of the touchpoints.
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  • Here, it’s about being invested in and part of the community that you’re seeking to connect to in more ways than just being the online host or hostess for your brand.
  • Make no mistake, community management is part of the lead cultivation process
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May
11
2010

"It's still a given that Enterprise 2.0 apps won't end up standing alone. But putting them together with goal management tools could give them a more pivotal role than if they just get sucked into generic collaboration or business software suites. "

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  • Since projects are usually tackled by people working in teams rather than individuals operating in isolation, that data needs to be presented in a team context.
  • Sharepoint will not help you form or manage teams. It won't identify the data that's necessary to complete the project."
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Jun
30
2009

Blogs and wikis provide specific formats to content. There are behavioral format clues that differentiate a blog from a wiki, but under the covers it’s all content. Content elements have value beyond the formats and applications that hold them hostage — they’re enterprise assets that can be repurposed in other formats. The specific format of content (.pdf .doc .html) is really only relevant for consumption — to associate the ‘viewing’ of the content with an application that can display it. The semantics of the content itself doesn’t really care about the format (don’t hold me to that when I’m telling you how to create semantically-relevant formats), just ask your favorite search engine — it’s all words to them.

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  • Consider a simple ‘hostage’ example (one that I’ve been aghast as many UX designers have missed the significance of), a UI with the labels “Blog” and “Wiki” as two separate options for navigation.
  • Sure, 2.0 technologies can increase transparency across organizations, but that’s all lost as you move across ‘closed’ solutions or formats, with no architectural layer to synthesize it all. One silo is simply replaced by another.
Apr
8
2009

But let me lay out a different vision of how content will flow in a fully digital news enterprise, whether it’s the Associated Press or your friendly neighborhood blog, with benefits at all levels of content creation and consumption: the content cascade.

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  • In any event, finding and implementing the right software will not be nearly as difficult as moving people and organizations through the needed organizational and cultural changes.  The content cascade is not intuitive, nor is it automatic once begun; it must be actively taught, managed, encouraged, facilitated, conducted.
Jan
24
2009

This is pretty cool and probably the dream of any online marketeers. Community created content is TRUSTED by the community !

But how can you build trusted "bottom up" content?

Its all about how you facilitate the communities !

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  • 1. We need to build a content trust model
  • 2. We need to build a reputation model
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