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This week in links - week 47, 2008

November 20 2008, 18:12 Posted in CMC    0 comments , 0 views
Categories: Collaboration, Web Content Management (WCM), Content Management Systems, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise 2.0
In a panel discussion, John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb.com, described mashups as "the next flavor of integration skill," and he pointed to the iPhone App store and the Salesforce AppExchange as places where mashups and cloud-based apps are starting to flourish.

"In the current state of the economy, the word we hear time and time again from CIOs is 'reuse,'" added panelist Hart Rossma...
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12 quick steps to improve MOSS 2007 for collaboration

November 18 2008, 22:48 Posted in CMC    0 comments , 18 views
Categories: Collaboration, Web Content Management (WCM), Content Management Systems, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise 2.0

I have been using MOSS 2007 for collaboration in virtual team deliveries for more than a year now. Based on that experience, here is my list of things that you can do to make collaboration a quicker, leaner and simpler experience in MOSS 2007:

  1. Make the log on procedure as simple (few steps) as possible.
  2. Make "My Site" to the start page" and allow users to customize (extend default navigaton options) global navigation.
  3. Place visible links (buttons) ...
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The Internet is full of holes

November 17 2008, 01:26 Posted in CMC    0 comments , 21 views
Categories: Collaboration, Web Content Management (WCM), Content Management Systems, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise 2.0
(...and I don't mean security holes.)

Have you ever experienced surfing the web from within an organization where the IT department (well, management) has blocked access to sites such as YouTube? It is an interesting experience. What becomes clear to you after a while is that a site like YouTube is not just a site . YouTube is present more or less everywhere on the web as videos from YouTube are embedded on blogs, sites and RSS feeds.



It is a fact...
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This week in links - week 46, 2008

November 14 2008, 02:47 Posted in CMC    0 comments , 62 views
Categories: Collaboration, Web Content Management (WCM), Content Management Systems, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise 2.0
A pan-European survey of more than 2,500 people in five countries shows that the use of social networking tools as part of everyday working life has led to an increase in efficiency. The study shows that 65% of employees surveyed in Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands say their company has adopted social networking as part of their worki...
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Ambient awareness and findability

November 09 2008, 18:47 Posted in CMC    0 comments , 66 views
Categories: Collaboration, Web Content Management (WCM), Content Management Systems, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise 2.0
Mark Granovetter’s research on the strength of weak ties for spreading information in social networks is indeed groundbreaking ("The Strength of Weak Ties", 1973) and in September this year, Clive Thompson discussed how weak ties can be strengthened by ambient awareness in an excellent article in The New York Times called "Brave New World of Digital Intimacy". He used the newsfeed in Facebook as an example of an environment which creates ambient...
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