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Yammering

When Yammer launched its public Beta I jumped on board and setup an account straight away.  I then invited everybody I knew at work to join, and within a few hours we had 30 people create accounts.  It was cool, people in Canada updated their status and people in China responded to them etc.  [...]

Aaron Fulkerson Talking to Scoble

Aaron Fulkerson over at Mindtouch recently sat down with Scoble to talk about Deki Wiki.  Check out the video.

It?s Alive!

After many months of blood, sweat and tears, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation is finally available. Aaron Newman and I started this endeavor at the end of 2007.  Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of Mindtouch,  later came on board as our technical editor and had some great insight for us based on his experience with DekiWiki and SOA architectural [...]

newthinking.bearingpoint.com

My former employer, BearingPoint, has recently launched newthinking.bearingpoint.com, a Wordpress-powered blog seemingly open to all employees. This is a bold move as consulting companies typically guard their intellectual property with an iron first. But BearingPoint has been a leader when it comes to transparency. MIKE2, BearingPoint’s information management methodology, launched in 2005 [...]

MySQL Enables Enterprise 2.0

Did you know that MySQL enables Enterprise 2.0? I didn’t realize a database could do that. MySQL defines Enterprise 2.0 as modern organizations implementing Web 2.0 technologies, architectures, and delivery models to offer browser-based, data-driven online applications to their business users. Their definition focuses on the technical side of E2.0, but doesn’t acknowledge the cultural side [...]

Agile is Hard to Implement

I’ve made it my mission in recent months to start doing agile development with my team. We made good initial progress, whereby each Product Manager prioritizes his backlog every three weeks and during our sprint period we “SCRUM” the larger projects (there are too many itemsto colllaborate on everything - maybe this [...]

Confluence vs. Clearspace

We recently had a debate over whether or not we should use Confluence as a replacement to twiki, our enterprise wiki. I used Confluence at my last company, and for the most part it worked well. It’s got a great set of plugins and an extensible architecture. Most of all, it has [...]

E2.0 Stagnation

We seem to have done a good job about defining the enterprise knowledge management problem and how Enterprise 2.0 wants to fix it. Knowledge is locked in people’s PCs, file shares, is hard to find and is underutilized. Not only that, corporations fail to efficiently tap into their human resources and facilitate [...]

Veodia. Nifty.

Veodia was just announced as the winner of the Enterprise 2.0 launchpad at the E2.0 unconference in Boston today. This makes me happy. I walked away from my trip to china with a renewed sense of how valuable social connections are between teams and started trialling Veodia last week. Video is a [...]

E2.0, Agile and Offshore

I’ve been in Xi’an, China this week meeting my offshore team for the first time. The picture here is of the parking lot walking into the office (the doorway is underneath the red letters). This is the first time I’ve ever been to China, and other than feeling like I’ve been smoking a [...]

Why It?s Been Quiet

Aaron Newman and I have been working for several months on putting an Enterprise 2.0 implementation guide together. Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of Mindtouch, has been doing the tech editing for us. And we’ll have another all-star, Jevon MacDonald, doing the forward for us. This is my first book, and let me tell [...]

Shout Out

My buddies over at e2oh.com were recently asked to blog over at wikipatterns as guest bloggers.  These guys have been instrumental in educating a very traditional management consulting firm on the values of social computing, not only for internal use but for external use with clients.  They fought many an IT battle to get the [...]

E2.0 Fundamentals

Recent discussions at work have prompted me to re-iterate something very fundamental that often gets overlooked when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. An organization will never adopt a single social productivity tool. Knowledge will ALWAYS be scattered. We’ve come to accept this on the Internet where search engines make information on a [...]

Why They Might Run and Hide from Enterprise 2.0

It’s been an interesting transition for me back to industry. “Industry” is the term consultants use to describe normal jobs with normal companies - the kind where people bring their plants to work and setup pictures of people they know in their cubicles. The kind where people wake up on Monday morning, drive [...]

Mindtouch Puts Up Some Impressive Numbers

A recent press release from businesswire.com highlights Mindtouch’s continued growth in the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace (disclosure: I’m working with Mindtouch’s CEO Aaron Fulkerson on a side project, and I know he’s not a fan of the term “Enterprise 2.0″, but it’s the biggest tag in my tag cloud and I’m duty-bound to make it even [...]

They Paint the Office Walls in China

Five of the people on my team work out of our China office in X’ian. Last week they informed me they were taking Monday off for a team building exercise. Each team was given a wall in the office to paint. And they didn’t paint murals. Nope, just a fresh coat [...]

Jive Continues to Kick Butt

Last week I had the opportunity to speak to Sam Lawrence about Clearspace 2.0, Jive Software’s next incarnation of Clearspace. A lot has been written about this new release today, and it’s generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere (Jive’s annoucement appeared in Techmeme for a while yesterday, which is mostly unheard of [...]

When Innovation Pays Off

Google is famous for allowing its engineers time to work on personal projects. This makes the engineers happy as they get a chance to be creative and show what they’re made of. And it makes Google happy because they get lots of innovative ideas and products from this personal time. I’m trying to instill [...]

MIA

With my return to the US and being in the same timezone as most E2.0 bloggers (save my Australian blogging mates) I was hoping to blog more here on SocialGlass. But I’ve been busy writing a book, doing a startup on the side, and managing developers at my new full-time gig. But, I [...]

Agile Development

Since this is a blog that “covers the transparent enterprise”, I thought I might include a presentation I put together about SCRUM - a collaborative and transparent way to build software applications.

Is Enterprise 2.0 Relevant only to ?Doers??

Enterprise 2.0 is about helping knowledge workers foster productive collaboration, innovation, and create a more connected culture. Knowledge workers keep each other informed through blog posts, author wiki pages together, and share bookmarks for interesting information resources. Together they generate folksonomies - user perspectives on corporate information assets, and bypass IT-sanctioned applications in [...]

I Am a Middle Manager

I’ve taken a new job with a consumer-focused company in San Diego. I am responsible for a group of people that develop a web site in the endurance sports market (and we use Clearspace externally). Most of my team works in the office with me. Others work out of LA and China. [...]

An Excellent Blog

During my career as a Manager with a Management Consulting firm I worked with two guys, Nate Nash and Jay Hariani, based in Washington DC who embraced Enterprise 2.0 like I’ve never seen anybody do before. They spearheaded a corporate initiative to rollout social computing software fighting battle after battle to convince more traditional [...]

Settling

Apologies for the lack of posts.  I’ve started a new job this week as a Development Manager for a company in San Diego and have been busy coming up to speed on everything (and everybody) I’ll need to know to do my job.  What an interesting 6 months. I worked in Austria from late June to [...]

Securing Enterprise 2 .0

I recently had the chance to talk with Yonni Harif, Marketing Manager, and David Lavenda, VP of Product Strategy and Marketing for WorkLight on the topic of security and Enterprise 2.0. WorkLight fundamentally believes that consumer Web 2.0 applications will play a vital role in Enterprise 2.0. Knowledge workers will use iGoogle, Netvibes [...]

EMC Enterprise 2.0 Casestudy

Chuck Hollis, Vice President of Technology Alliances at EMC, recently chronicled their adoption of Clearspace, Jive’s social productivity solution. They called the implementation EMC One. Sam Lawrence, CMO of Jive, has summarized their effort here. It’s worth a read as it provides some enlightening and encouraging insight into how Enterprise 2.0 can [...]

Infovark Developing Enterprise 2.0 Software

Infovark, a stealth Enterprise 2.0 startup founded by two ex-Management Consultants Dean Thrasher and Gordon Taylor, has shed some light on what it is they’re actually doing. These guys write one of my favorite blogs and I recommend adding them to your reader. By all accounts they have solid technical skills and a comprehensive [...]

Is Anybody Making Money on E2.0?

Thought I’d throw a provocative question out there. Is anybody actually making money on Enterprise 2.0? When I say “anybody”, I mean software vendors and professional services organizations. And when I say “make money”, I mean “making a profit”. You see it seems to me that profitability might help substantiate the market. It would [...]

Hear the Enterprise RoR

Susan Scrupski recently wrote about how the likes of Tim Bray feel that Ruby on Rails is a great option for the enterprise. I couldn’t agree more with Tim. I’ve been working closely with the framework in recent times and also built some demos with it back in my consulting days. [...]

Only in San Francisco?

Only in San Francisco can you find advertising for open source software. SugarCRM is a popular open source Customer Relationship Management application. Good competitor to the likes of Siebel and Peoplesoft. I was walking in the lobby of a building in the financial district when I saw this. I must say [...]

Jive?s Approach to Marketing

I must say I’ve gotta love Jive’s new approach to marketing. I took a picture of something I received from them the other day in the mail - a condom wrapper. It’s hard to read (took the photo with my iPhone), but across the top it says: “Protect Against: Sharepointitis, email clogging & blogules.” Then below [...]

Is Enterprise 2.0 Stagnating?

I’ve noticed that the ideas behind Enterprise 2.0 have remained relatively unchanged for a year and a half or so. Sure, we’ve seen the evolution of Andrew McAfee’s SLATES mnemonic to one called FLATNESSES by Dion Hinchcliffe. “SLATES” appeared in Spring, 2006, and “FLATNESSES” over a year later. Fundamentally the elements both are [...]

Enterprise 2.0 and SOA - URI Addressability

I came across a post from Dion Hinchcliffe recently that talked about ideas for SOA architects in 2007 (ok, so it’s a year old). Dion talks about how Web 2.0 philosophies can be leveraged to enhance the effectiveness of SOA. The recommendation that stood out to me was “Deeply Embracing URI Addressability”, [...]

Mindtouch adds Cool New Features to Deki Wiki

Update: Deki Wiki has had mashup capabilities since June/July 2007. The Dapper extension is new to release 1.8.3. Read/Write web has just posted about some awesome new features in Mindtouch’s new release of Deki Wiki, version 1.8.3 (disclosure: I am working with Aaron Fulkerson of Mindtouch on a side project). Deki Wiki is an [...]

Jive Software in 2008

I recently had a discussion with Sam Lawrence, Chief Marketing Officer at Jive Software, about his take on social computing in 2008.  I’ve written about Jive several times and have been impressed with Clearspace - Jive’s Enterprise 2.0, social productivity application.  Below is a summary some of the things Sam and I discussed.  Jive - Company Background Jive Software was [...]

What Happened to Versionate?

In July this year I wrote about Versionate being the next big wiki platform.   I was impressed with how well Versionate played with MS Office.  It seemed effortless to upload a Word document and convert it into a writable wiki page.  It also seemed effortless to export wiki pages into Word. I was convinced Versionate would [...]

The Enterprise 2.0 Market

(interesting now that I’m in the US I’m still posting at 5pm Aussie time) I’d like to direct your attention to a post by Jevon MacDonald called Enterprise 2.0: Where the f$#@ is my market? where he asks: Is there such thing as an Enterprise 2.0 market? If so, can you sell in to it? If not: [...]

Made It

I safely arrived in Colorado last night.  It’s been 1 year since I’ve been in the US.  I immediately noticed how festive the US is around the holidays. Carols were playing in the LA airport and people said “merry christmas” to me.  This doesn’t really happen in Australia, where if they said it they’d prefer “happy [...]

Moving to the Northern Hemisphere

Today is my last day with my firm in Australia. I’m heading back to the states after 2.5 years to take a break and then explore some exciting job opportunities. I’ve had a fantastic experience here in Oz and have worked with some amazing people. I’ve worked on more traditional systems integration projects [...]

Quote of the Day

I wanted to send a file to a Gen Y co-worker and asked if he had Skype, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger or MSN. He said: No man, I don’t use thick clients any more.

The Social Dimension of Enterprise Search

No, this is not another post about combining social bookmarking and enterprise search. Instead I wanted to highlight how the social dimension of enterprise search - the search terms people use and the links they click as a result - can add to the effectiveness of an enterprise search solution. The idea is simple: Capture “fruitful” [...]

Running a Business using SaaS

I’d often wondered if SaaS (Software as a  Service) could provide all of the features/capabilities required to support and operate a business.  It seems the answer is yes. Joe McKendrick has written about Ismael Ghalimi who “documents all the Office 2.0 tools and technologies you could ever need to avoid bloatware of any kind and run [...]

Grammar and Enterprise Architecture

On the topic of enterprise architecture, some colleagues of mine talk about defining a corporate lexicon to outline what a business does, or wants to do, as a business. The aim of this activity is to arrive at a desired future-state where the business can talk about its core functions in a language that [...]

Dow Jones and Enterprise 2.0

I’ve just come back from an interesting Enterprise 2.0 conference hosted by Dow Jones in Melbourne, Australia. Dow Jones has a product called Factiva, which they’ve recently relaunched as “Factiva 2.0″. The goal of the conference was to give an overview of Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0, then dive into Factiva. I wanted [...]

Position Article - Enterprise Search and Social Bookmarking

Over at the FASTForwardBlog, Bill Ives highlights the value of combining enterprise search with social bookmarking.  Tom Mandel recently commented on my blog about this as well, and I’ve written about this topic a few times before. I’ve recently posted a position paper about the business value of fusing search and social bookmarking, borrowing ideas from [...]

Web 2.0 and Risk

I wanted to share a great quote from a Gartner Analyst responding to CIO criticism of Web 2.0: “Security is not about zero risk it is about managed risk. Accept there will be a few security failures. “No risk means no reward. Stop talking about all the bad things that can happen and talk about what these [...]

Why Enterprise Search Could be so Much More than Search

Enterprise Search (the first “S” in SLATES) has long been heralded as the mechanism companies can use as a gateway to discover knowledge assets buried across the organization. I’ve discussed this topic a few times on this blog. Most enterprise search solutions integrate (at the API level) to line of business and reporting [...]

Semantic Web vs. Participation

The semantic web is often heralded as the next evolution of the internet, Web 3.0. Wikipedia describes the semantic web as an: evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software [...]

Looking for Enterprise 2.0 Consultants in Australia

A few days ago I got a request from my Managing Director (Partner) asking if I knew of anybody in the Enterprise 2.0 blogosphere who’d like to join our firm as a consultant specializing in Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 in Australia. We have the go-ahead to bring onboard 3 such consultants at varying levels [...]

Reputation Systems

Wikipedia defines a reputation system as “a type of collaborative filtering algorithm which attempts to determine ratings for a collection of entities, given a collection of opinions that those entities hold about each other”. On the web, companies like eBay and socialpicks use reputation systems to let users make informed choices about who they [...]