Google Wave Enters Apache Foundation Incubator
I am an unabashed sucker of Google Wave (see previous CloudAve coverage) and the two reasons for its demise are Mainstream users had difficulty seeing the value in Google Wave as a collaboration and communication platform Google didn’t flex its muscle enough to push it down the throat of users and make them see the […]
Idiotic Poll and Advertising at its Worst
I happen to be interested in collaboration, wrote Wikis are the Instant Intranet over 4 years ago, way before it became a trendy subject, so of course I clicked on this link by Sameer Patel: +1 RT @dhinchcliffe: RT @elsua Required Reading: Is Social Intranet a Collab Solution? http://bit.ly/9FQ6aN @deb_lavoy /Outstanding read! Is Social Intranet […]
When Should Management Push Enterprise 2.0 Adoption?
After the Boston edition of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, IBM’s Rawn Shah wrote a great follow-up post outlining ten observations from the event. A couple points that I found myself agreeing with wholeheartedly were: Adoption is about transforming human behaviors at work – More folks are starting to recognize that it is not trivial to […]
FUD in the House of SaaS – More on Suites
Recently I wrote about the evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate again, arguing: Call me “old school”, but I also believe in the value of having one tightly integrated system for most business needs, and I believe it’s true not only for large corporations but much smaller businesses. I don’t have CIO’s to back […]
Are Suites Really Sour? The Best of Breed vs. Integrated Suite Debate.
The evergreen Best-of-breed vs. Integrated All-in-One Suite debate is back again. This will be a somewhat long post, so let’s sit back and start with some entertainment first. Episode 2, “Suites Are Sour” is from the mini-series SuiteMates, which I admit I find hilariously entertaining, albeit rather pointless. Why? It’s run by supply chain solution […]
The Two-Year Lag from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0
The Enterprise 2.0 sector draws heavy inspiration from innovations in the Web 2.0 world. Indeed, the name itself, Enterprise “2.0” reflects this influence. From a product management perspective, Web 2.0, and its derivations social networking and social media are great proving grounds for features before coding them into your application. A fruitful area to review […]
The SaaS applications wiki – open for business
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the […]
Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 2 of 2
Yesterday I blogged part 1 of my report on the Social Media in the Enterprise event that Alan Patrick and I cooked up (at Tuttle) to inject some enterprise related content in to this week’s “London Social Media Week“. We had 8 speakers (originally 10, but Will McInnes of NixonMcInnes had travel problems, and Dr […]
Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 1 of 2
I blogged that Alan Patrick and I were running the only enterprise related event as part of this week’s “London Social Media Week“. Considering we only had the idea a week last Friday at Tuttle, and only promoted the thing with a few tweets, I’m both impressed and surprised that we had around 50 attendees […]
Swiss Re – One of the Smart Companies
On Monday In Zurich during SOMESSO‘s Web 2.0 University™ based masterclass delivered by Jim Benson, one of the attendees related her company’s adoption of Social Media. I was soaking up the material and offering Jim a little help, as we have just started to represent Hinchcliffe and Web 2.0 University™ in the UK. One of […]
Pbworks Ups The Ante With Real Time Collaboration Features
When Zoho projects 2.0 was released, I wrote a post about the evolution of project management. In the post, I talked about the nature of Project Management 2.0 Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components In the same post, I also dug in […]
Google Sites Targets Enterprises With Its New API
Google has taken a big step towards luring enterprises to use Google Sites instead of Microsoft Sharepoint. Yesterday Google Enterprise Blog announced the release of Google Sites API. This move not only ensures the potential enterprise adoption of Google Sites, it also helps Google elevate their entire Google Apps product to be more attractive for […]
Pbworks Adds Social Component To Their Project and Legal Editions
In June this year, Pbworks (formerly known as Pbwiki) launched the Project Edition, an integration of project management tools with the traditional wiki. This edition was directed towards freelance consultants, advertising firms, design firms, etc. in such a way that the project management becomes an organic outgrowth of the real work done by these businesses. […]
US Army Wikified
WetPaint is one of my early “discoveries”, three years ago I called them the “wiki-less” wiki, as it blended wiki-like, forum-like and blog-like features long before it became fashionable. I haven’t followed them closely, but apparently they’ve been growing nicely, and today I saw this post: The US Army on Wetpaint! – hm .. let’s […]
Email is Still Not Dead, Thank You.
Yet-another-email-is-dead article, this time on SocialMediaToday, originally on OnlineMarketerBlog. The author adds Microblogging's increasing popularity to the standard "reusable" arguments: people using IM, or increasingly SMS, and most recently Facebook instead of email which they find cumbersome, slow and unreliable – hence email usage will decline. I beg to disagree as I did before and […]
