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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

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, API, application syndication, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, Digital Media, Distributed Development, long-tail, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Online Advertising, Open Innovation, Open Source, publishing, Social Networking, syndicate, User Experience, Web 2.0

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren't usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we've termed the Assembled Web. + 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

Content Management in the Age of User Participation - Presentation
Posted 20 Jun 2008 by John EckmanTags: Alfresco, Amateur, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, content syndication, Culture, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Media and Publishing, Next Generation CRM, Open, Open Source, Social Networking, Syndication, User Experience, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, WordPress

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called "Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton" - you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   + Read more

Media Widget = Content Syndication
Posted 24 Mar 2008 by Jim MunzTags: Blogs, Content Management, content syndication, Facebook, long-tail, Marketing, media, Media and Publishing, publishing, syndicate, Syndication, syndicatr, Web 2.0, Widget

A lot of activity is going on right now in the industry regarding widgets and how and why to use them. It seems daily another announcement is coming out about how someone is making available content to by shared on blog sites, Facebook, MySpace, and other web sites in an effort to improve the user experience on the site and at the same time monetize the additional audience exposure those sites bring for both the content owner and the publishing web site. + Read more

Whiteboard to Wire in 12 weeks
Posted 11 Dec 2007 by Bobby BeckmannTags: Content Management, PHP, Video, Web 2.0

At the beginning, we had a whiteboard with the general idea of Unity's vision and what pieces they thought were critical for the beta release. Since the site was going to be launched in 12 weeks, we had a hard date that had to be met. This site had to have some key functionality including: + Read more