Quick video interview from Digiphile at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, in which Dan Bricklin explains SocialCalc, which Ross Mayfield announced yesterday, and brings social spreadsheet functionality into SocialText wikis:
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One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of information that social bookmarking and other forms of tagging can result in.
Here’s his slides via slideshare:
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I’m in San Diego this week for the Enterprise3 conference, which the organizers describe thusly:
Enterprise3 consists of three separate, but related, components:
- Enterprise Web and Information Management Conference – a conference that provides technology managers and IT staff with a detailed guide to selecting and implementing technology and product innovations in Web 2.0, portals, collaboration, information management and access, enterprise search, and service-oriented architectures.
- Enterprise Portal and Collaboration Business Summit – an event designed for business users and technology managers that employs case studies and best practices to show attendees how companies today are gaining business benefit from the latest enterprise portal and business collaboration technologies and products.
- Microsoft SharePoint in the Enterprise Forum – this forum provides IT staff with the information they need to deploy a Microsoft SharePoint environment that can be integrated with enterprise-level information management and business collaboration systems.
I don’t normally cross-promote heavily across the multiple places I blog, but this one seemed worthwhile.
From my blog at Optaros.com: “Enterprise 2.0 Free Conference Pass”
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:
Community and collaboration pervade open source. It’s no surprise therefore that there are a number of open source platforms which are not only capable of delivering Enterprise 2.0, but are delivering it with innovation, flexibility, and agility. This session covers several, including (but not limited to) Alfresco, Drupal, and Ringside Networks.
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The newest splash in the “Facebook in the Enterprise” race is a facebook application called “WorkBook” from a company called WorkLight.
WorkBook is apparently part of the WorkLight platform, and pricing starts at $10/user/month.
Some coverage:
McAfee, who was able to see a demo, has the best details on the workings of the app:
In a quick demo, Lavenda opened up his standard public Facebook profile, then launched WorkBook (Worklight’s offering) just like he’d launch any other Facebook application. After he logged in, a separate section opened up within the profile. This section was devoted to the user’s employer— let’s call it Lavendaco. Inside this section were a number of standard Facebook features— friends, groups, Q&A, profiles, etc.—presented using the standard Facebook UI. But the data populating each of these were specific to Lavendaco, came from the Worklight server installed at Lavendaco, were encrypted as they travelled across the Internet, and did not pass through Facebook servers.
But I have to confess my own reaction is closer to Bill Ives, which is, wouldn’t this be pretty easy to build yourself, on top of Facebook APIs?
Maybe a good candidate for our next ONE (Optaros New Employee) training class, wherein the team does a quick project. Our Intranet is Drupal 6 based, and shouldn’t be too hard to pull that in to Facebook. I know there is already a Facebook Module for Drupal 5.x
