Collaboration 2.0
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Roll up, roll up! Oracle digests Taleo
We’re in for more cloud/SaaS merger and acquisitions this year. Will continued innovation triumph over old guard purchase integrations? And do the customers and prospects care as much as the financial markets think they do?
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Alfresco enter the cloud & mobile era
Alfresco create cloud and mobile offerings to augment their core standards based enterprise content management competencies
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Sturgeon's law & the copyright vacuum
Your on the job contributions in collaborative environments are much more protected than elsewhere digitally, but getting credit for ideas is critical to continued use pattterns
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The value of collecting your thoughts in a private online journal
In this era of multiple channels of communication, collecting your personal thoughts and ideas in one place is increasingly useful
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Don't put your neck on the line...
Investing in long lasting, good quality ergonomic work furniture costs about the same as a new computer, but isn’t as seductive as a new Apple laptop despite many great design attributes. (…I bought an expensive new office chair and am justifying it to myself!)
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Consistent standards for defining 'social business'
The W3C are getting more involved with defining standards around ’social business’ - this is a very good thing IMO
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Blackberry's irresponsible social advertising
A startlingly unhelpful TV commercial manages to both undermine Blackberry’s enterprise credibility while apparently encouraging personal activities on company time
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The information diet
Clay Johnson makes a case for conscious information consumption in his new book, drawing analogies with our food habits and options. We are in danger of being drowned in information; strategies for finding the value amongst all the crud have never been more important
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Jive Software: the end of the beginning...
Financial market sentiment around Jive’s growth prospects will now play an increasingly important role in the broader space they have come from. The big leagues are crowded and finding space to grow as a platform will be challenging but possible
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Buying into the cloud while supporting the past
Legacy application complexity coupled with next generation connected business needs is hugely challenging for large enterprise software companies. The SAP SuccessFactors purchase may signal a new approach to melding old with new
