Published on Wednesday, September 26 2007
ICanHasCheezburger, or at least sites like it, should have a place on your corporate intranet.
So Why should lolcats (pictures of cats with captions in the imagined/projected diction of a cat who uses IM/SMS a lot) belong in your Enterprise 2.0?
Developed by two individuals known as Cheezburger and Tofuburger, is best enjoyed without deep explanation – just start visiting the web site, subscribe to the RSS feed (this is the one which works best on my phone), or follow them on twitter. For those who need explanation, start here:
Because your employees are people too. In fact they were people long before you made them employees. As people, they have interests which only partially (or maybe even not at all) overlap with whatever it is you pay them to do (gasp!).
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Published on Monday, September 24 2007
I’ve already written up a number of notes from sessions I saw at the Gartner Open Source Summit, which overlapped with the Web Innovation Summit.
(Full disclosure: Optaros was a sponsor of the Web Innovation Summit).
Unfortunately I got in too late on Tuesday night to see any of the Tuesday evening sessions. I would have enjoyed Anthony Bradley‘s Web 2.0 Basics Tutorial, based on reviewing the slides and seeing Bradley’s other presentations. I like the way he approaches questions about adoption and Enterprise class Web 2.0 applications.
Wednesday am, running a few minutes late due to a conference call with Optaros colleagues on the East Coast, I wandered into the opening remarks just in time to hear the speaker (was it Adam Tinkoff?) ask “is jeckman in the room?” – he’d been following me on twitter as I tweeted away about my travel saga. (Planes never arrive on time anymore – it’s really just a question of how late they will be or if you’ll get there at all). Best publicity I’ve had from twitter so far, though I’m not sure my “complaining about travel” tweets are the ones I most want to be known for.
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Published on Saturday, September 22 2007
I spent the latter half of this week at the Gartner Web Innovation and Open Source Summits. (Officially two different conferences, but held over the same three days in the same location).
Luckily, despite some overlapping sessions, the keynote by Yochai Benkler was shared across summits and I was able to attend.
If you’re not familiar with Prof. Benkler, you should be. His book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is the treatise on /study of commons-based peer production. (It’s available in many formats including free versions under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution Share-Alike License).
He’s also the author of “Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm,” in which he argues that:
while free software is highly visible, it is in fact only one example of a much broader social-economic phenomenon. I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode “commons-based peer-production,” to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
What follows are my rough outline notes of his talk. Benkler’s the kind of speaker where the notes or even the slides don’t do justice to seeing him speak – but at least I’ve got some of the highlights and examples down.
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Published on Monday, July 2 2007
Now that I’ve had some time since the Enterprise 2.0 conference, I want to reflect a bit on the experience of liveblogging directly from the conference. I have a feeling this is going to be a lengthy post, so if you’ve no interest in liveblogging pros and cons, you’ve been warned.
(Quick Summary: there’s more value in more commentary and analysis, less in transcription).
My own liveblogging from Enterprise 2.0 was inspired by many useful liveblogs I’ve read from events – especially David Wienberger (who is able to liveblog while participating as a panelist and chatting on backchannel IRC). Noting the presence of power strips in the seating areas and a working, stable wifi network (as opposed to SXSW), it just made sense to me to share the notes I was taking.
But then a comment by Andrew McAfee made me think more critically after the fact than I had at the time.
McAfee notes:
Finally, I used to think that short talks at conferences were low-pressure events, since they’d be heard by relatively few people and remembered by even fewer. A quick Google blog search, however, brings up about 30 blog posts commenting on my keynote. These will persist unless their posters take them down, and will add to the Internet’s record of my work. This is more than a bit scary for me as a speaker, but for me as a conference attendee this is great news; it means that the overall quality of talks will go up. No one wants to be examined from that many angles and found lacking.
(Just FYI – McAfee’s keynote is also freely available online in video from Altus – to me that would be even scarrier than the blogger’s reaction).
This got me to thinking, about liveblogging in particular, and asking a number of questions I probably should have thought more about a few weeks back:
- What’s the proper etiquette for liveblogging, other than sitting in the back and typing as quietly as possible?
- Does one need permission to liveblog a conference keynote? What about a conference panel session?
- Would that be permission from the speaker(s)? the conference organizer(s)? both?
- What’s the difference between blogging about an event – summaries, excerpts, and commentary – and liveblogging an event? Is it just the time difference, or the percentage of the event covered?
- Does liveblogging get in the way of more substantive commentary?
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Published on Thursday, June 21 2007
In addition to the Optaros whitepaper (“Assembling Enterprise 2.0“) I mentioned the other day, those interested in the topic of Enterprise 2.0 and open source should check out my colleague Jeff Potts’ podcast interview with Ian Howells of Alfresco.
In Jeff’s description:
In this podcast we discuss some of the details behind the Liferay-Alfresco-Roller solution Optaros recently implemented for one of our clients . . .
Or Ian’s:
Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are hot on everyone’s lips at the moment. In this Podcast I interview Jeff Potts, of Optaros, about an Alfresco application they have delivered that brings together:
- Alfresco outside the firewall
- Alfresco inside the firewall
- Alfresco for document management
- Alfresco for Web Content Management
In this Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 project, Alfresco is integrated with:
- Portal – Liferay
- Blog – Roller
- Tagging – Alfresco
Specifically we discuss:
- The goals of the project
- Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and characteristics of these types of projects
- The components used in the solution
- The consumerization of IT – Web 2.0 Components within the Enterprise
- How to find out more
