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Commerce and Community: Sears' Santa's Helper Promotion
Posted 01 Dec 2009 by John EckmanTags: 3Cs, Advertising, Application Stategy, Assembled Web, Business Model, commerce, Community, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Marketing, multi-channel, multichannel, Recommendations, Reviews, Shopping, social shopping, User Generated Content

MySears keeps doing great work with respect to the convergence of content, community and commerce. Take this holiday promotion, for example: + Read more

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

Designing for the Social Web
Posted 10 Nov 2008 by John EckmanTags: Community, Design, Digg, Direct Consumer Engagement, Facebook, Information Architecture, interface, Recommendations, Social Networking, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0

When the World Wide Web first hit popular consciousness, the major challenge for designers was to understand that the web wasn't print. The conventions, patterns, and approaches that traditional design had prepared them to rely on were no longer valid, and they needed to develop new conventions for the new medium. + Read more

SUN T2000/T5000 and Alfresco - not a good combination
Posted 01 Oct 2008 by Optaros Tags: Alfresco, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise solutions, Performance, Recommendations

A recent analysis reports that several Alfresco installations have had performance issues using SUN T2000 infrastructure environment. The conclusion and recommendation of this analysis is to use UltraSPARC Vx, Intel or AMD processors infrastructure instead. T2000 and T5000 are from the same family. The T2000 has been designed for being highly performant in the treatment of parallel tasks but its processor (UltraSPARC T1) is very slow, especially for treating sequential tasks. + Read more

Data migration into Alfresco ECM
Posted 09 Jan 2008 by Optaros Tags: Alfresco, Open Source, Platform, Recommendations, Solutions

After the first and successful implementation of Alfresco at the State of Vaud (Switzerland), the IT department sees more and more requests of State departments requesting for integrating the Alfresco ECM platform. One usual need is the data migration from an existing application to the Alfresco ECM repository. The easiest case is - of course - when Business does not require any migration as the new the application will manage new content only. + Read more

Alfresco Architecture at City of Lausanne
Posted 09 Jan 2008 by Optaros Tags: Alfresco, Analysis, Architecture, ECM, eGovernment, Government, Open Source, Platform, Recommendations, SOA

In November 2007, we delivered the final presentation of our work for City of Lausanne (Switzerland). The objective of our work was to analyze their needs and to recommend a high level architecture for implementing Alfresco as their core DMS solution. + Read more