The quiet arrival of the SharePoint kill... It was with some interest that I read The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 after a link was Tweeted out yesterday. I was reading in reverse order from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, see my Gartner Magic Quadrant; a dark horse closing up the outside fence… My main interest in...
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....
Gartner Hype Cycle Version 2.0... Technorati Tags: Gartner, Geek & Poke, Hype...
Some thoughts on E2.0…... Some interesting posts over what for us in the UK was an Easter Bank Holiday weekend, on E2.0, its progress and and its ROI. The discussions all centred the long roasted meme of when, when and what for E.20 will truly come kicking and screaming into the business world.   Trough of 2.0? For example, Hutch...
Harnessing 'Enterprise Social Netwo... Facebook for the Fortune 500 Following on from my post on what we should call social media inside the firewall “What should we call ‘Intranet Social Media’?“ My peers (and Twitter pals) from various enterprises in Europe and the Americas have suggested the following: Collaborative Media,...
The perigrinations of internal social me... When I used to lecture, I used to find that the areas I at least thought I knew the most about could often be the most difficult to create a good half hour on. This little essay proves the point and I thought it would be an easy follow-on from what so far, has been my most responded to post. It takes up...
Gartner: the CIO and Web 2.0... The beleaguered CIO is being proffered heavy weight advice by the analysts at Gartner. First they weighed in with a Gartner Presents CIO Resolutions for 2009 and now Gartner’s top pundit Mark McDonald has offered his advice to the CIO in an interview with the Wisconsin Technology Network saying that...
Gartner: From the tie to 2.0, CIOs &... Sailing against the cold winds of doom, a refreshingly upbeat set of recommendations from Gartner for the embattled CIO. The synopsis is straightforward – the current crisis presents opportunities to be seized: In time of a recession, organisations have more time for introspection that identifies what...
The CD is dead, long live the…... Those creators of the future Gartner have posted a valediction for bidding mourning for the CD. The precogs say that this should be the last christmas for the format: 2008 Should Be the Last Christmas for Retail CDs. Having spent a most pleasant time with the people at Dada Records in Chiswick just before...