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Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange
Posted 30 Jun 2009 by John EckmanTags: Assembled Web, Blogs, business, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, media, Media and Publishing, new media, online, Platform, publishing, Recommendations, Social Networking, Strategy, Syndication, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring commun + Read more

Reviewing the Groundswell
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by John EckmanTags: Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Groundswell, Marketing, media, Online Advertising, Open Source, Social Networking, User Experience, Web 2.0

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, published by Harvard Business Press (note: disclaimers at the end of the post). + Read more

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John EckmanTags: Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, JBoss, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. + Read more

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John EckmanTags: Alfresco, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Content Management, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Open Innovation, Open Source, Platform, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a role to play in the overall shift in the direction of Enterprise 2.0 knowledge worker applications through the notion of content services and social services: + Read more

Online Communities in Less than 10 Minutes
Posted 28 Apr 2008 by John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Culture, media, User Experience, User Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0

In this video, Berkman Center fellow Ethan Zuckerman recounts the high points in the history of online communities in just about seven minutes, including BBSs, MUDs, MOOs, and Weblogs, tracing all the way from the origins of internet email through to Fox's acquisition of MySpace. + Read more