Friday, November 14th, 2008
Antoine Perdaens
Practical advice for activating the potential for social networking in the enterprise is hard to find, here are ten strategies that can help leverage this popular aspect of social computing in the workplace.
Read the full article at www.socialcomputingmagazine.com
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Gregory Culpin
Laura Fitton from Pistachio relayed this short business use case story for Twitter written by Gary Koelling of Best Buy and Blue Shirt Nation fame.
Microblogging in a single room is the behaviour you’ll see at conferences nowadays, but I was thrilled to discover a company actually practicing this to manage all their meetings and presentations.
Whether you are 5 or 500 people, the ability to instantaneously share ideas and conversations without disrupting presentations almost sounds too wild to one day become common practice. My first impression is however that this could be slightly overkill for smaller groups/companies. Also the fewer the people, the closer the speaker and therefore the more potentially disturbing could microblogging become.
Should critical mass therefore be a requisit? Could we apply the same to web conference meetings and training sessions to dynamically gather feedback? Next step is now to convince the boss to try this out 
Read the full article at pistachioconsulting.com
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Antoine Perdaens
Oliver Young, an analyst at Forrester Research, stated that despite there being a lot of buzz about the consumer market for web 2.0 applications, “the greatest opportunity today for vendors is in the business-to-business collaboration space”.
The trends is definitely on social networks and mashups. What about the B2B collaboration spaces. Tools like basecamp started early by providing a simple SaaS solution where one can manage projects with their clients. This trends is clearly growing to bigger needs in enterprises. More than project management, knowledge management can be done with your clients as well.
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Feed Jockey
I think Software as a Service (SaaS) is going to be even more prominent in 2009. It’s often cheaper (also available in credit crunch!), more flexible and speaks to a culture of change and innovation. One obvious way companies are using SaaS is interaction with clients where you can provide them with an exchange platform for projects and knowledge sharing.
This post on ReadWriteWeb looks at the reasons some traditional IT shops are scared of SaaS.
“Some traditional enterprise IT vendors are selling the line that SaaS is a passing phase, that it is “old wine in new bottles”. They are telling their market that SaaS is really no different from the discredited Web 1.0 Application Service Provider (ASP) model or even that it is simply the ghost of the ancient mainframe Service Bureau come back to haunt us all. This post shows why their analysis is wrong. It also shows why some traditional enterprise IT vendors feel so threatened by SaaS and why the economic downturn just made this a major issue.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
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