Why Lotusphere 2009 Is Important

This year's Lotusphere could very well be a make-or-break moment for the Lotus brand and solution portfolio. I know that's pretty dramatic - but if you look at this through the lens of history and into the crystal ball of the future, I think it's a pretty accurate …

More On Digital's Knowledge Sharing Efforts

John commented on my post, Why History Is Relevant To The Future Of Collaboration, which itself was a call-out reference from Patti Anklam that I caught on Twitter re: The Camelot of collaboration: The case of VAX Notes - Inside Knowledge. More on "Understanding …

Enterprise RSS - RRW Readers Speak Out

A lot of great comments over at the main article: R.I.P Enterprise RSS. I thought a few deserved additional feedback:

#8. The consumption of Enterprise RSS feeds and the creation of the content in the feeds are both at fault here. There isn't enough 'good' …

Workplace Anxiety - Good Or Bad Omen For Social Tools

Interesting article from NYTimes.com (excerpts below). Such organizational dynamics will influence how people participate and contribute with social tools (e.g., "Enterprise 2.0"). Some workers may withdraw under the assumption that hoarding their expertise might help …

Ten Reasons Why "Enterprise RSS" Has Failed To Become Mainstream

The article below is interesting in that it does call out a dark truth -

Oracle's View On Enterprise 2.0 (Part Two)

On January, 7 I posted my thoughts on an article Oracle contributed to Enterprise Systems Journal (Oracle's View On Enterprise 2.0). One of the Oracle authors (Billy Cripe is the director of product management, Enterprise 2.0 and ECM) was kind enough to notice and post …

Defining Enterprise 2.0: Less Is More

Einstein once said, "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience."

The reason this …

Microsoft's Unified Communications Predictions

I thought I would offer some comments on some UC predictions offered by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who heads Microsoft's UC group:

No Jitter | Microsoft: Gurdeep's UC Predictions

1. UC gets unified
The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and …

Circling Around To KM

Excellent (the post below).

Why? Because there's no mention of blogs, wikis, social networks, Enterprise 2.0 or the dreaded "KM Architecture" (there might be one or more - but it is not an IT architecture in the traditional sense - I would consider

Oracle's View On Enterprise 2.0

When conversations on Enterprise 2.0 turn to vendors, most of the time you will hear a list of small vendors (e.g., Atlassian, Connectbeam, Jive, Socialtext, Telligent, etc) as well as traditional collaboration and content platform players (e.g., IBM, Microsoft) and …

Cisco, The Social Experience Company?

From a technology perspective, there are lots of options in this space (in alpha order: Awareness, Communispace, HiveLive, Leverage, Lithium, Mzinga, Sparta and many more). Just having the technology is merely "ante into the game". Building out the surrounding …

Why History Is Relevant To The Future Of Collaboration

As I read this post by Dick Hirsch on the ESME blog, it reminded me how important it is to put technology into an historical context at times. The quote "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" seems relevant. Far too often, when I read lofty …

Facebook And Power.com: It's About Honoring Mutual Relationship Rights

In a recent post I outlined some perspectives on social graphs - namely, that a change in context and situation alters how relationship connections are manifested. After reading the recent news about Facebook and its suit against Power.com, the disagreement provides an …

2009: Enterprise 2.0 - Innovate Through Acquisition?

I thought this was an interesting clip from a CIO magazine article...

The Connections Blog

This is a great quote to start the year - from an article by CG Lynch in CIO magazine "Web 2.0, Social Networks in '09: The Year of Consolidation, Not Innovation":

IBM, …

Putting A Little Oomph Into 2009 (Update)

FOAF Musings

FOAF (Friends of a Friend) project site, Wikipedia definition pops up now and then but you have to look for it if you are in the enterprise software space. Major enterprise vendors tend to dismiss it, ignore it or switch the conversation to their own approach - but

Social Graph Musings

Some of my late-night Twitter thoughts on social tools, social structures and how "worlds collide" when segments of your social graph become more visible and inter-related via emerging services such as Facebook Connect.

interesting how the "law of unintended …

W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking

For those interested (also a link to several research papers):

W3C is organizing a Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, with a high level goal of bringing together the world experts on social networking design, management and operation in a neutral and …

Enterprise Twitter: Not Dismissive, Just Realistic

Dennis raised a credible perspective in a comment to my entry on "Enterprise Twitter". I thought I would respond in a separate post since I do not have a feed specific to comments and since his comment misinterprets my position:

1. I do track these products/services …

2009: Planning Considerations For Enterprise 2.0

Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0 plans:

Enterprise 2.0: Critical Decisions For …