‘Culture’ posts

DrupalCon DC 2009: 5 Key Trends

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Mar 2009

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. (DrupalCon is the semi-annual gathering of Drupal developers, users, themers, consultants, and contributors; its generally held once in the US and once in Europe each year – the next will be DrupalCon Paris in September 2009). I’ll be posting more specific updates on | View post »

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

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. We talked about Ringside Networks’ Social Application Server and how they are using open source to drive innovation and application development beyond the core platform. (Don’t forget Bob’s previous middleware-style professional | View post »

Content Management in the Age of User Participation – Presentation

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Jun 2008

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.   | View | 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 »

Optaros Culture

Posted by Optaros on 20 Mar 2008

Our goal from day one was to build a company that had impact. Whose name stood for market leadership, execution quality, and customer value add. We also wanted to grow rapidly and to scale properly. Recognizing that the market is highly fragmented, it’s not about market share. It’s all about mind share. To build a | View post »

People make the difference

Posted by Optaros on 06 Feb 2008

  Optaros spends a lot of time with our customers on defining the best way(s) to work together. We look at a number of aspects – business relationship, technology, process. But arguably the most important factor is cultural fit. Internally, Optaros expends an extraordinary amount of energy to make sure the people who work here | View post »

NGI, Assembly, and Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

Next Generation Internet applications, assembly as a methodology, and open source are related to each other in important ways. It’s the combination of the three that really enables the rapid delivery, business agility, and innovation that businesses need on the web today. Open source applications and frameworks make possible as assembly methodology. Although Optaros often | View post »

Culture of Participation

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

One key aspect of next generation Internet applications is the breadth and depth of participation expected by users. While Tim Berners-Lee has complained that the Web 2.0 meme misses the point that the web was always supposed to be about collaboration and community of users, the reality is that first generation web sites were generally | View post »

Practicing UX at a Company Where the User is King

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 10 Jan 2008

Although all web services companies say the user is king, and set out to design web applications with the user in mind, the end result doesn’t always reflect that intent. Ironically, even after a successfully validated design is completed, one of the inhibiting factors that sometimes contributes to the missed end result, can be the | View post »

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