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Connectivity Does Not Mean Availability
[2012-01-04] Not too long ago your workday started when you arrived at work and ended when you left work. Then, overtime, as new forms of communication were introduced and implemented in the workplace work started to play a more central role in our lives. Work was no longer about when you got to work and left work it became about when you could be reached. Now thanks to the web, email, phone, and other technologies we can be reached anywhere at anytime, but this is a double-edged-sword.
How is Mobile Supported on the Enterprise Level?
[2011-12-06] The rise of mobile communications is one of the major game changes in technology. The amount of time spent on mobile apps has surpassed web browsing on a computer. There are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers (77% of the world population) and mobile devices have overtaken computers on Wi-Fi networks. Given these numbers, how are enterprise IT departments supporting their mobile users?
Socialtext Continues to Focus on Workplace Integration
[2011-10-25] I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. They began with a wiki base and have added capability over time to build a comprehensive platform. A couple of years ago they added Socialtext Signals, one of the first enterprise micro-blogging tools. A wrote about them a year ago on this blog (see Socialtext Adds Micro-messaging and Goes Mobile). Recently, I spoke with their CEO, Eugene Lee, on their latest offerings.
Enterprise Cloud Providers Must Borrow A Page From Apple's Playbook
[2011-10-07] I've been on the road with clients and partners of late and one thing I can attest to, other than the fact that trains are a much more civilized form of travel versus planes, is that enterprise interest in cloud greatly outpaces actual cloud investments.
Cisco on Enabling the New Collaborative Workspace
[2011-09-26] I am attending Forrester's Content & Collaboration Forum 2011. Forrester notes that in five years, almost half of US workers - about 63 million people - will work virtually. I am already one of them. This will change everything in workplace IT support from designing workplace information strategies for collaboration, to delivering content experiences to people across channels, to engaging the next-generation workforce to serve customers better. These notes are near real time so please excuse any typos.
Cloud Computing in Education
[2011-09-13] I was up late last night talking to some of my very old contracting buddies from a long time in my past. We were talking about the adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, and the influence that is having on the ability to hire employees who really get cloud computing, virtualization, security, cryptography, and a ton of other things that you can do on someone else's hardware and disk images.
Evaluating VMware Cloud Foundry’s Platform As A Service Progress
[2011-08-19] With a string of recent distribution and collaboration announcements, it's time to look at Cloud Foundry's progress since a beta announcement in April 2012.
Using Q&A Sites For SEO Results
[2011-08-08] Taking an active part in Q&A sites is very smart SEO. You not only get targeted traffic, but also build quality links. Search engines include Q and A sites as an attempt to offer diverse search results. You must have noticed that often the Q and A sites are on the first page of search results. This is because search engines know that these sites have the relevant answer to the search term keyed. Read on to know how Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers, Quora, Answerbag, Mahalo, Wikihow, etc. can get you relevant traffic.
Twitter Search Gets A Facelift
[2011-07-26] This news is one that was long awaited. The Twitter Search has gained a new location and has got a facelift to match the Twitter.com search experience. This information was Tweeted by Twitter. This means that now if you key in http://search.twitter.com, you will be redirected to http://twitter.com/search. The new user interface has major improvements and will provide highly relevant search results and related photos & videos too!
It’s Time to Try Social Technologies
[2011-07-12] At the beginning of the series of blog posts on Google Plus that I started earlier on this week I mentioned how I would be putting together about four different articles about my first impressions on playing around quite a bit with G+, something that those folks who have been following this blog for a long while now would know it's not something that I do rather often, so you can imagine how it is starting to grow on me more and more by the day. You could say I am having a blast with it, to the point where most of my other external social networking activities have gone a bit dormant in the last few days! I do realise though how I still need to post that fourth article and all, but I thought I would go ahead talk about something else today: the value I am getting from Google Plus already on my first week of usage. Because I guess that's what we all care about at this point in time, right? What (business) value do we want to get from G+? We all remember that social for the sake of social is not going to take us anywhere. So how am I benefiting from making use of it at the moment? Well, let me summarise it with a single sentence: facilitated serendipity on steroids!
Adobe Introduces Managed Services For Connect
[2011-06-28] Adobe quietly put an announcement on their blog this morning that Adobe Connect customers now have an option to use the product in a managed services context. If that phrase means nothing to you, stay with me and I'll explain.
Apple Announces iCloud to Launch This Fall
[2011-06-07] On Monday at the Word Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) Apple announced its new iCloud to launch this fall. The service will give 5 GBs free with their new iOS 5. The iCloud is a seamless way to integrate content from applications one uses so that it is accessible from anywhere.
How Big is the Cloud?
[2011-05-06] The global cloud computing market will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020, according to new Forrester forecast data reported in Sizing The Cloud by Stefan Ried, Ph.D. and Holger Kisker, Ph.D. Based on Forrester's cloud market taxonomy, this new report outlines the different market dynamics for the three core layers of cloud computing - the public cloud, the virtual private cloud, and the private cloud. The total size of the public cloud market will grow from $25.5 billion in 2011 to $159.3 billion in 2020. The market for virtual private cloud solutions will grow from $7.5 billion in 2011 to $66.4 billion in 2020. The market for private cloud solutions will grow from $7.8 billion in 2011 to $15.9 billion in 2020.
Measuring Economic Impact of Using Cloud-Based Services: Google Apps
[2011-04-19] This post picks up on the theme from yesterday's post. In May 2010, Google commissioned Forrester to examine the total economic impact and expected return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by switching from legacy email and productivity solutions to Google Apps. The report is now out. As most of you know, Google Apps is a cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform that includes mail, calendaring, IM, as well as Web-based collaborative documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and sites. I have used it on several projects and it seems to work fine as a free SaaS alternative. This is especially true for efforts where a commercial cloud-based collaboration tool is not available for whatever reason.
How to Keep Your Google Ranking During a Website Redesign
[2011-04-05] I recently wrote an article which outlined how to create a first-class home page and this got me thinking, does your Google ranking drop when you re-design your website?
Harmon.ie Provides Social Email to Push Enterprise Collaboration Adoption
[2011-03-22] Harmon.ie has now released a cross-platform suite of enterprise collaboration products designed to boost user adoption of the dominant enterprise collaboration tools. These include bringing central components of SharePoint into both Outlook and Lotus Notes. The goal is to increase user adoption of the broader collaboration platforms now available and stop sharing docs as attachments to email.
Recommind Supports End-to-End eDiscovery
[2011-03-08] Recommind provides predictive information management software through search-powered business applications. I last spoke with them in 2009 (see: Recommind's MindServer Search™ 6.0 Addresses need for More Effective eDiscovery). Recently, I spoke with Craig Carpenter, Recommind's VP of marketing and General Counsel. I noted the unusual job combination, and Craig said when your main clients are law firms and law departments within corporations, the combination helps. We mainly focused on their Axcelerate™ Review & Analysis suite with Predictive Coding™ and how it impacts eDiscovery.
A Vision For OWASP
[2011-02-22] There's been lots of talk over the last few weeks about OWASP. Is OWASP at a tipping point? Where should OWASP go next? Has OWASP lost touch withdevelopers?
Boosting Your Social Ranking With Hootsuite And Google Spreadsheets
[2011-02-08] As you know, search engines (especially Google and Bing) are taking Social Rank into account more than ever. Those who take the time to share awesome content and build up a reputation will have an ever-increasing influence over the SERPs in the coming years. So it pays dividends to tilt the social sharing benefit in your favor. Taking the time to collect, sort, and schedule your best content shares may be a great first step.
Accepting Variability In Task Execution And Capitalizing On Early Deliveries
[2011-01-24] Eli Goldratt has written many novels beyond The Goal. One of the most important for IT professionals is his book Critical Chain. Critical Chain is ostensibly about project management, but in reality it's about all of demand management in a services context. The book identifies and examines key causes of project failure:
Understanding The Balance Of Power In Community Driven Projects
[2011-01-14] The current situation between Oracle, the Hudson community and Hudson project founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi sheds new light on the relative value of a trademark as a project control mechanism. Understanding the balance of power in community driven project can help IT decision makers avoid vendor lock-in.
Is Google Chrome OS Headed For Success Or Failure?
[2010-12-28] Google has been the father of innovation in cyberspace. They have developed so many advanced web technologies that we have begun to believe that they would never develop a technology that wouldn't catch on with the web community.
Downloading Your Facebook Personal Profile And Fan Page
[2010-12-14] Have you wondered how to backup or download the content you have been posting to Facebook?
How To Choose The Correct Web Developer
[2010-11-30] If you were to poll a hundred serious business owners on the street and ask them if a website was a crucial part of starting a business, at least ninety would probably say it is. Yet, if you polled the same hundred people and asked what resources they put into their website, you would probably be shocked with the results.
Seeking A Balance Between Quantity And Quality
[2010-11-16] In my review of the "Free Traffic System" (FTS), I recommended spinning manually your articles before submitting them through FTS or through any other article submission program. And I promised to share with you some advance spinning tips. This blog post is divided into two parts:
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