6 types of Enterprise Social Software Sc...
6 people types you may meet at work, a motley collection of enterprise social network naysayers…;-)
1) The Antiques Dealer
Common riposte: “‘what’s wrong with e-mail?’ thought they tend to forget that when e-mail was introduced they said the same thing about that. Not so much a...
…thank you for your cooperation...
It’s been a year since I started this blog The Parallax View and from time to time I get asked if the reference is to Pakula or to Žižek. The answer is a dialectical strain of both. I’ve read too much Jameson to go for any debased attempt to read the totality that is the conspiracy. It’s...
Gartner Magic Quadrant; a dark horse clo...
Just been reading the Gartner Magic Quadrant: Social Software. Jive come out as the clear leaders, closely followed by IBM and Microsoft (the latter featuring better on ability to execute). Other notables – Drupal, Telligent, SocialText and blueKiwi jostle with Google for the Visionary space....
Islands of Enterprise Social Media...
Last night I dreamed I went to Megacorp again, and as dreams are, this one combined such experiences with work I’ve been doing of late on open source wares and of being in a J G Ballard novel (my nearish neighbour sadly having passing away last week).
The dream was of a company as so. Imagine if you...
Oracle to buy Sun for Social Networking?...
Reliable sources, says Shel Israel, have it that one reason Oracle wanted Sun, was for their social networking capabilities. Mike Gotta lists these out, including SunSpace, their Facebook for the Enterprise:
This could help bootstrap an Oracle effort to deliver a dedicated social network site (ala Lotus...
Burton report on Enterprise Social Netwo...
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Mike Gotta has produced a very useful Field Research Study for Burton: Social Networking Within the Enterprise (free registration required). There’s a good exec overview at CIO.com: Report: Enterprises Struggle to Adopt Social Networking Internally. Note however, CIO’s somewhat negative angle...
2 Excellent posts on social media inside...
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As per my post on Prince, too busy to do this justice but suffice to note 2 excellent posts on enterprise social networks:
Businesses will live to regret their social media ignorance Suw Charman-Anderson
Why Your Business MUST Adopt Enterprise Social Software Larry Hawes
Put simply, peeps will find ways...
Nielsen's internet footprint –...
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The latest report from Nielsen, Social Networking’s New Global Footprint showing the growing normalisation of social media in internet use is of interest for several reasons. Most notable the age demographics refutes the fallacy that this is a novelty for young male users. The broad median of users...
Intranet Browser of the Future...
Funny really when you think about it, a lot of time, effort, blood, sweat and hard cash budget goes into the intranet itself, the CMS, the platform and portals, etc., etc., but little all goes into the browser. A few searches on this shows not a lot being done, apart from one notable exception Shiv Singh at...
Scaling the Enterprise Social Network Py...
Over at Bertrand Dupperin’s Notepad blog there’s a great article on Enterprise Social Networks, Social networks are the quintessence of enterprise web 2.0. Bertrand looks at how the active users has to manage and interpret the information flows amd how social media tools join up as a final...
