‘Collaboration’ posts

Alfresco and Ringside

Posted by Optaros on 01 Jun 2008

I’ve made moderate progress getting Alfresco and Ringside integrated. If you haven’t played with it yet, Ringside Networks is an open source project that essentially gives you a standalone Facebook server. There’s actually more to it than that, but for this conversation, what matters is that Ringside supports the Facebook API and FBML without requiring | View post »

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass

Posted by John Eckman on 06 May 2008

At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am. Here’s the session description: Community and collaboration pervade open source. It’s no surprise therefore that there are a number of open source platforms which are not | View post »

Online Communities in Less than 10 Minutes

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Apr 2008

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. The video comes from the YouTube channel recently established by | View post »

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Feb 2008

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. It's a very smart article, worth reading in | View post »

From requirements to a designed UI in 5 too-short days!

Posted by Optaros on 30 Jan 2008

When Swisscom Mobile challenged our Zurich team to design a total overhaul of the Labs public beta website in just 4.5 working days, some said that it couldn’t be done. And they were right – it took 5 days! This project proved the value of two things we pride ourselves on at Optaros: methodology and | View post »

The Library of Congress, Flickr, and You

Posted by John Eckman on 16 Jan 2008

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? They're asking / allowing users to describe | View post »

Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 Conference

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

This summer I atteneded the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, and liveblogged a number of the sessions. Some of the highlights: Davenport versus McAfee: Can We Get Any Disagreement? David Weinberger Keynote Andrew McAfee Report Card on Enterprise 2.0 Day One Summary How to Build Solutions People Will Actually Use Don Tapscott (Wikinomics) Ross Mayfield | View post »

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jan 2008

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? You can view video from the CCI launch (RealPlayer required) | View post »

YouCanHasCheezburgers; or, Employees are Miscellaneous

Posted by John Eckman on 26 Sep 2007

ICanHasCheezburger, or at least sites like it, should have a place on your corporate intranet. So Why should lolcats (pictures of cats with captions in the imagined/projected diction of a cat who uses IM/SMS a lot) belong in your Enterprise 2.0? Developed by two individuals known as Cheezburger and Tofuburger, is best enjoyed without deep [...]

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