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Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Veröffentlicht 31 Mar 2009 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, social media, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. + Read more

Drupal, Acquia, and 2009
Veröffentlicht 01 Jan 2009 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Blogs, Business Model, Community, Content Management, Drupal, Enterprise applications, Open Source, Platform, Social Networking

Looks like 2009 will be yet another exciting year of growth for the Drupal community. Dries Buytaert (Drupal project founder and lead, Acquia co-founder) announced two significant news items for the Drupal world in his recent "Predictions for 2009" blog post: a predicted release date for Drupal 7, and a major change in Acquia's support offering. + Read more

Designing for the Social Web
Veröffentlicht 10 Nov 2008 von John EckmanTags: Community, Design, Digg, Direct Consumer Engagement, Facebook, Information Architecture, interface, Recommendations, Social Networking, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0

When the World Wide Web first hit popular consciousness, the major challenge for designers was to understand that the web wasn't print. The conventions, patterns, and approaches that traditional design had prepared them to rely on were no longer valid, and they needed to develop new conventions for the new medium. + 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

Why Communities Fail
Veröffentlicht 17 Jul 2008 von John EckmanTags: Business Model, Community, Corporate Websites, Social Networking, Strategy, support, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0

Ben Worthen had an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal about the kinds of online communities companies are starting to build - "Why Most Online Communities Fail." He provided some potentially disturbing statistics from a recent study: + Read more

E-Commerce 2.0 – Hype oder Realität?
Veröffentlicht 07 Jul 2008 von Bruno von RotzTags: Ajax, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Re-platforming, RIA, Rich Internet Application, Shopping, Social Networking, Web 2.0

Im Rahmen des internationalen E-Commerce Kongresses 2008 am 19./20.Juni 2008 in Wiesbaden wurde bereits über eCommerce 3.0 referiert (How eCommerce Becomes a Uniquely Great Experience, by Daug Mack, VP, Creative Solution Services, Adobe). Was bedeutet die Versionierung einer Online-Practise? Sicherlich nicht die Ankündigung eines neuen Software Releases. Die Online-Practise E-Commerce benötigt neue Impulse. + Read more

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks
Veröffentlicht 02 Jul 2008 von John EckmanTags: Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, JBoss, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. + Read more

Slides from the Open Source ECM event
Veröffentlicht 26 Jun 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Liferay, Open Source, Ringside Networks, Social Networking

I want to thank everyone for attending the Alfresco-hosted Open Source ECM event in Dallas this morning. In case you missed it, the slides I presented on "Assembling Enterprise 2.0 Solutions with Alfresco" are available at share.acrobat.com (which is built on Alfresco, BTW) and embedded below. + Read more

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Veröffentlicht 23 Jun 2008 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. + Read more

Content Management in the Age of User Participation - Presentation
Veröffentlicht 20 Jun 2008 von John EckmanTags: Alfresco, Amateur, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, content syndication, Culture, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Media and Publishing, Next Generation CRM, Open, Open Source, Social Networking, Syndication, User Experience, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, WordPress

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called "Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton" - you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   + Read more

Alfresco and Ringside
Veröffentlicht 01 Jun 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, ECM, Facebook, Ringside Networks, Social Networking

I've made moderate progress getting Alfresco and Ringside integrated. If you haven't played with it yet, Ringside Networks is an open source project that essentially gives you a standalone Facebook server. There's actually more to it than that, but for this + Read more

Social Shopping and The Game of Life
Veröffentlicht 23 May 2008 von Adam MichelsonTags: Community, Design, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Management, Retail, Shopping, Social Networking, Visualization, Web 2.0

  The top question we get today regarding social shopping is as follows: "We've done product ratings and reviews; what social shopping features should we implement in 2009 that actually will lead to increased traffic, basket size or conversion rates?" To help our clients answer this question we developed the 2009 Social Ecommerce Guide + Read more

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass
Veröffentlicht 06 May 2008 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Alfresco, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, User Experience, Web 2.0

At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am. Here's the session description: + Read more

Social Networking Identity Mapping, and Open Source
Veröffentlicht 10 Apr 2008 von John EckmanTags: Community, Corporate Websites, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Media and Publishing, Open Innovation, Open Source, OpenID, PHP, Platform, Retail, Social Networking, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Although social network platforms have been increasingly open to application development, spurred by Facebook's API and reinforced by the Open Social foundation, the approach has always been to enourage the development of applications inside the walls of the social network. + Read more

Open Source CMS - does the world need yet another one of these??
Veröffentlicht 07 Apr 2008 von Optaros Tags: Content Management, content syndication, Drupal, ECM, Open Source, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widget, WordPress

Content Management is a very poplular category in the open source ecosystem. There are more than 2’000 open source technologies out there to handle, manage and distribute content. So why would we need any of the 200 new ones published over the last six months? + Read more