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DrupalCon DC 2009: 5 Key Trends
Veröffentlicht 20 Mar 2009 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Assembled Web, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Content Management, Crowdsource, Culture, Design, Drupal, Media and Publishing, Open Source, PHP, Platform

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. (DrupalCon is the semi-annual gathering of Drupal developers, users, themers, consultants, and contributors; its generally held once in the US and once in Europe each year - the next will be DrupalCon Paris in September 2009). + Read more

Reviewing the Groundswell
Veröffentlicht 22 Jul 2008 von John EckmanTags: Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Groundswell, Marketing, media, Online Advertising, Open Source, Social Networking, User Experience, Web 2.0

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, published by Harvard Business Press (note: disclaimers at the end of the post). + Read more

Online Communities in Less than 10 Minutes
Veröffentlicht 28 Apr 2008 von John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Culture, media, User Experience, User Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0

In this video, Berkman Center fellow Ethan Zuckerman recounts the high points in the history of online communities in just about seven minutes, including BBSs, MUDs, MOOs, and Weblogs, tracing all the way from the origins of internet email through to Fox's acquisition of MySpace. + Read more

Open Source CMS - How Telcos can benefit
Veröffentlicht 14 Apr 2008 von Optaros Tags: Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, iPhone, long-tail, Mobile, multi-channel, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, telco, telecom, Web 2.0

The larger telecom operators have been reinventing themselves over the last couple of years again and again. They constantly look to replace voice revenue and profit lost due to competition, they fight price declines, migration and substitution effects. It’s a fine line of introducing new products as needed and demanded and at the same time not to cannibalize the own existing offering. + Read more

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage
Veröffentlicht 19 Feb 2008 von John EckmanTags: Analysis, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Marketing, Open, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Product Management, Social Networking, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, both of Forrester Research, have an article in the Spring issue of the MITSloan Management Review titled "Harnessing the Power of Social Applications," which, for now at least, is available in free full text to non-subscribers, as part of an Online Preview. + Read more

The Library of Congress, Flickr, and You
Veröffentlicht 16 Jan 2008 von John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Images, Tags, User Generated Content, Yahoo!

The folks at Flickr and the Library of Congress have worked together to create The Commons. Basically they've taken a subset of the images in the Library of Congress which have no known copyright restrictions and posted them as a collection on Flickr. Where do you come in? + Read more

Web 2.0: Nightmare or Dream?
Veröffentlicht 08 Jan 2008 von John EckmanTags: Amateur, Crowdsource, Keen, User Generated Content, Weinberger

The Wall Street Journal has (under the rather pugilistic title "Full Text: Keen vs. Weinberger") a transcript of a debate between David Weinberger and Andrew Keen on the topic of user contributed content and web 2.0 generally. It's an enlightening read to see how two very different frames make very different pictures of (more or less) the same phenomenon.  + Read more

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Veröffentlicht 02 Jan 2008 von John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsource, MIT, Open Innovation, Web 2.0

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched the Center for Collective Intelligence in October of 2006 to study one central question:How can people and computers be connected so that- collectively - they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before? + Read more

Clever Commute comes to Boston area
Veröffentlicht 26 Dec 2007 von John EckmanTags: Crowdsource

An article ('Clever' train update service arrives) in the Boston Globe on Christmas Eve alerted me to the launch in the Boston area of the Clever Commute community: + Read more