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Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Posted 31 Mar 2009 by John EckmanTags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, social media, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. + 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

Marketing to Women? Don't Ignore the Blogosphere
Posted 18 Apr 2008 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Amateur, Blogs, Community, content syndication, Demographics, Direct Consumer Engagement, Ecommerce, long-tail, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Metrics, Online Advertising, Retail, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Widget, WordPress

Brands who hope to market to women should no longer consider the blogosphere as an emerging or fringe channel, but should recognize the pervasive presence and increasing influence of women as authors, readers, and commentors on blogs. + Read more

Open Source CMS - does the world need yet another one of these??
Posted 07 Apr 2008 by Optaros Tags: Content Management, content syndication, Drupal, ECM, Open Source, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Widget, WordPress

Content Management is a very poplular category in the open source ecosystem. There are more than 2’000 open source technologies out there to handle, manage and distribute content. So why would we need any of the 200 new ones published over the last six months? + Read more

Social Networking Inside Out
Posted 01 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: Blogs, DiSo, Open Source, OpenID, PHP, Platform, Social Networking, Web 2.0, WordPress

One of the major challenges in the world of Social Networking is social network fatigue: the idea that there is a relatively tight limit to the number of social networking applications in which any user can participate, because it quickly gets rather exhausting to keep track of multiple logins, post news to multiple streams, reply to comments in multiple different contexts, and monitor friends' activities in parallel silos. The existing social network sites and platforms, however, don't make it easy to coordinate and distribute activity among multiple networks. + Read more