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Barcamp Channel on SlideShare

Barcamp Channel on SlideShare

By Ross Mayfield on June 1, 2010

I had the dubious honor of hosting the first Barcamp in Palo Alto, with a Socialtext wiki and office, of course. Since then, Barcamp has been a worldwide phenomenon that has turned events on its head. The Open Space methodology…

Posted in Business | Tagged barcamp, slideshare, socialtext, Wiki | 1 Response

Competitors Rush to bring the Latest Timesinks to the Enterprise

Competitors Rush to bring the Latest Timesinks to the Enterprise

By Zoli Erdos on April 1, 2010

It’s nice to see competitors come together to bring the most popular timesinks productivity boosters to the Enterprise. We’ve long been predicting Foursquare would soon hit the Enterprise, and no the wait is over, with Atlassian releasing Fourwalls. There’s a lot we can learn from this app – otherwise how would I know that @barconati […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged april fools day, Atlassian, chatroulette, e20, Enterprise 2.0, Foursquare, fourwalls, Humor, socialtext | 2 Responses

Intelligent Middleware in the Realtime Enterprise

Intelligent Middleware in the Realtime Enterprise

By Jevon MacDonald on April 1, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Enterprise microblogging has been gaining in popularity in the last year. Companies like Socialtext, Socialcast, Status.net and others have developed some absolutely stunning and low cost enterprise platforms. Each of these platforms has a rich set of APIs and can be customized with varying degrees of flexibility. Some take their cues from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Akibot, Blog Post, microblogging, Realtime Enterprise, salesforce.com, Socialcast, socialtext, yammer

Humanising the Enterprise for Greater Efficiency and Effectiveness

Humanising the Enterprise for Greater Efficiency and Effectiveness

By Ross Mayfield on March 11, 2010

I’m in Austin where we just announced a partnership with the Dachis Group at their Social Business Summit. Lee Bryant is talking about how to build more efficient and effective organizations. What follows is an impressionistic transcript. I’m somewhat of…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Collective action, Dachis Group, Hanseatic League, Social network, socialtext

Can Enterprise 2.0 Apps Stand Alone?

Can Enterprise 2.0 Apps Stand Alone?

By Phil Wainewright on March 4, 2010

Socialtext, one of the earliest and most established pureplay Enterprise 2.0 vendors, released the latest version of its flagship suite this week, and it set me thinking. Is there a future for standalone Enterprise 2.0 software suites, now that the functionality they offer is increasingly being offered within established enterprise application software suites? The independent […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, Business process, chatter, collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, social computing, socialtext

Socialtext Made Group-Forming Ridiculously Easy

Socialtext Made Group-Forming Ridiculously Easy

By Ross Mayfield on March 3, 2010

Ridiculously easy group-forming matters because the desire to be part of a group that shares, cooperates, or acts in concert is a basic human instinct that has always been constrained by transaction costs. Now that group-forming has gone from hard…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Clay Shirky, Reed's law, social software, socialtext, Twitter, Wiki

Human Interactions and the Rise of Social Characteristics in Software

Human Interactions and the Rise of Social Characteristics in Software

By Paul Greenberg on February 4, 2010

Those of you who have read the 4th edition of CRM at the Speed of Light know that I’ve taken Thomas Vander Wal’s brilliant “Social Stack” concept, and added “context” as a characteristic to it. I’m increasingly convinced that the idea of ”social characteristics” is somethingthat has to be considered when it comes to the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, Helpstream, Jive, lithium, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, Social CRM, Social network, socialtext | 1 Response

Monday’s Musings: SaaS, SOA, Integration and How To Make A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich In The Cloud

Monday’s Musings: SaaS, SOA, Integration and How To Make A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich In The Cloud

By R "Ray" Wang on November 9, 2009

Rapid SaaS Adoption Will Lead To A Repeat Of 1990’s Best Of Breed Integration Challenges

The proliferation and rapid adoption of SaaS solutions stems from 7 key benefits: richer user experience, rapid implementation, frequent cycles of innovation, minimal upgrade hassles, always on deployment, subscription pricing, and scalability (see Figure 1). Despite these benefits, organizations head full […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, Ariba, boomi, Business process, Business process management, business process optimization, canonical data models, cast iron systems, CIO, Cloud Computing, commoditized business process, Concur, data governance, data integration, design phase, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, hybrid deployments, Informatica, IT Strategy, JD Edwards, Jive, Jive Software, line of business, long term apps strategy, middleware platforms, netsuite, Open Air, peanut butter and jelly, Pervasive Software, SaaS, SaaS Integration, salesforce.com, sap, SnapLogic, SOA, socialtext, software as a service, Talend, workday, Xactly

From Enterprise 2.0 Adoption to Business Value

From Enterprise 2.0 Adoption to Business Value

By Ross Mayfield on November 2, 2009

In 2006, Enterprise 2.0 gained a definitional framework with Andrew McAfee’s seminal article. But then the conversation quickly shifted to adoption frameworks. In part this was needed for something that was both new and powered by people. But unfortunately it…

Posted in Business | Tagged Altimeter Group, Enterprise 2.0, Social Enterprise, Social Media, socialtext

The Spreadsheet gets a (Revision) History

The Spreadsheet gets a (Revision) History

By Ross Mayfield on October 19, 2009

Today marks the 30th anniversary of VisiCalc, the spreadsheet that sparked the PC Revolution. You can read on Dan Bricklin’s blog the evolution of the spreadsheet from then to now, the day Socialtext took SocialCalc out of beta. To help…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Dan Bricklin, socialtext, Spreadsheet, VisiCalc

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