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Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: 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 Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: 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 ...

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: 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 ...

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: 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 ...

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. Read more ...

Groundswell Video #1- Josh Bernoff, Forrester
Posted 21 Apr 2008 by Marc Osofsky | Tags: Groundswell, Open Innovation, Swisscom Mobile Labs

Josh Bernoff, Forrester Analyst and author of The Groundswell recently completed a webinar with CNET showing real world examples of open innovation. Open innovation is the concept of engaging customers directly in the product development process.One example he discussed was a finalist for the Groundswell Award - Swisscom Mobile Labs. See the vodcast below: Read more ...

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

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Social Networking Identity Mapping, and Open Source
Posted 10 Apr 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Community, Corporate Websites, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Media and Publishing, Open Innovation, Open Source, OpenID, PHP, Platform, Retail, Social Networking, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Although social network platforms have been increasingly open to application development, spurred by Facebook's API and reinforced by the Open Social foundation, the approach has always been to enourage the development of applications inside the walls of the social network. Read more ...

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage
Posted 19 Feb 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: 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 ...

Acquiring new customers using new media
Posted 27 Jan 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Community, Direct Consumer Engagement, Marketing, Online Revenue, Open Innovation, Shopping, Social Networking, User Generated Content

Times are changing for marketing and product managers. Several years ago advertising budgets were completely focused on TV and print media. Today the fragmentation of channels and the emergence of new, Internet-based media is causing a realignment of funds, or at least a questioning of the effectiveness of previous strategies. New media allows potential customers to be addressed earlier and in a more targeted and effective way, leading to significantly higher sales. Read more ...

Direct Consumer Engagement
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Community, Direct Consumer Engagement, Open Innovation

In Forrester Research's recently published Market Research Predictions for 2008, Brad Bortner argues that: Read more ...

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Posted 02 Jan 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: 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 ...

The New Openness
Posted 14 Dec 2007 by Marc Osofsky | Tags: Marketing, Open Innovation, Web 2.0

Across industries, companies are struggling to determine how best to deal with the power that social computing gives customers to share with millions how they feel about a product. This new-found power in the hands of customers creates an openness of information (positive and negative) that is having a dramatic impact on the success of new products and overall company revenues. Read more ...

Open Innovation
Posted 13 Dec 2007 by Marc Osofsky | Tags: Open Innovation, Portal, Product Management, Web 2.0

Many consumer product and service companies are looking for ways to accelerate new product introduction and increase the probability of successful product launches. A major part of the Next Generation Internet is the concept of openness - that your customers can now communicate their views on your company and product over the internet and reach as many people as your marketing department can and in a more believable manner. Read more ...

Endeca: Under the covers
Posted 11 Dec 2007 by Jeff Potts | Tags: Alfresco, Endeca, Open Innovation, Portal, Web 2.0

The Endeca Partner Community solution ("EDeN") was assembled from content management, portal, blog, and search components. Specifically, Alfresco, Liferay, Wordpress, and Endeca's Information Access Platform. Let's look at the responsibilities of each of these components and then a bit about how they integrate.Content Management -- AlfrescoThe Alfresco repository holds all file-based content that gets published to EDeN. This includes things like whitepapers, tech notes, and product documentation. Read more ...

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