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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

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John EckmanTags: Acquia, Architecture, Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. + 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

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

Open Source CMS - How Telcos can benefit
Posted 14 Apr 2008 by Optaros Tags: Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, iPhone, long-tail, Mobile, multi-channel, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, telco, telecom, Web 2.0

The larger telecom operators have been reinventing themselves over the last couple of years again and again. They constantly look to replace voice revenue and profit lost due to competition, they fight price declines, migration and substitution effects. It’s a fine line of introducing new products as needed and demanded and at the same time not to cannibalize the own existing offering. + Read more

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage
Posted 19 Feb 2008 by John EckmanTags: Analysis, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Marketing, Open, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Product Management, Social Networking, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, both of Forrester Research, have an article in the Spring issue of the MITSloan Management Review titled "Harnessing the Power of Social Applications," which, for now at least, is available in free full text to non-subscribers, as part of an Online Preview. + Read more

The Library of Congress, Flickr, and You
Posted 16 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Images, Tags, User Generated Content, Yahoo!

The folks at Flickr and the Library of Congress have worked together to create The Commons. Basically they've taken a subset of the images in the Library of Congress which have no known copyright restrictions and posted them as a collection on Flickr. Where do you come in? + Read more

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Posted 02 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsource, MIT, Open Innovation, Web 2.0

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched the Center for Collective Intelligence in October of 2006 to study one central question:How can people and computers be connected so that- collectively - they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before? + Read more