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Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange
Veröffentlicht 30 Jun 2009 von John EckmanTags: Assembled Web, Blogs, business, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, media, Media and Publishing, new media, online, Platform, publishing, Recommendations, Social Networking, Strategy, Syndication, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring commun + Read more

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

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

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

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
Veröffentlicht 02 Jul 2008 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Architecture, Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. + Read more

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco
Veröffentlicht 02 Jul 2008 von John EckmanTags: Alfresco, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Content Management, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Open Innovation, Open Source, Platform, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a role to play in the overall shift in the direction of Enterprise 2.0 knowledge worker applications through the notion of content services and social services: + 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

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

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

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

From requirements to a designed UI in 5 too-short days!
Veröffentlicht 30 Jan 2008 von Optaros Tags: Ajax, Alfresco, Assembly Methodology, Collaboration, Community, Design, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0, Wireframing

When Swisscom Mobile challenged our Zurich team to design a total overhaul of the Labs public beta website in just 4.5 working days, some said that it couldn't be done. And they were right - it took 5 days! This project proved the value of two things we pride ourselves on at Optaros: methodology and experience. The methodology included our Design Workshops, where stakeholders and users follow their path to completing a task using rough screen mockups called wireframes. + 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

Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Veröffentlicht 10 Jan 2008 von John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Conference, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Web 2.0, Weinberger

This summer I atteneded the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, and liveblogged a number of the sessions. Some of the highlights: + 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