‘Knowledge Management’ posts

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

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. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Open Source CMS Alfresco Releases 3.0 Preview

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 31 Jul 2008

Alfresco has just announced the availability of the Alfresco Labs 3.0 Preview. If you’ve been regularly updating from HEAD there may not be a whole lot of stuff that’s new to you but if you haven’t, it might be a good time to see what the team in Maidenhead has been up to. The first | View post »

Call it what you want, just not "KM"

Posted by Optaros on 17 Jul 2008

My friend and former colleague Tom Pierce has recently started blogging on Enterprise 2.0 over at EnterpriseBlend.com. One of his recent posts talks about whether or not social computing is the end of Knowledge Management (KM), that somewhat nefarious term for extracting, organizing, and sharing the knowledge from the heads of employees that ultimately forms | View post »

Optaros ‘open sources’ DoCASU 1.0, a RIA User Interface for Alfresco ECM

Posted by Optaros on 15 Jul 2008

Open Source software has many advantages compared to proprietary alternatives. The fact that the source code is open might often not even be the most relevant benefit. The ability to access functions and componentized services through open APIs (application programming interfaces) allows to focus development efforts on what is most important for the usage of | View post »

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

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 | View post »

Slides from the Open Source ECM event

Posted by Optaros on 26 Jun 2008

I want to thank everyone for attending the Alfresco-hosted Open Source ECM event in Dallas this morning. In case you missed it, the slides I presented on “Assembling Enterprise 2.0 Solutions with Alfresco” are available at share.acrobat.com (which is built on Alfresco, BTW) and embedded below. The deck covers a bit about the general components | 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 »

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 »

Unsophisticated digital glue

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 27 Dec 2007

Harvard Business School Professor Andrew McAfee, who originally popularized the "Enterprise 2.0" label (see "Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration") recently blogged about the role of simplicity in enterprise knowledge management and collaboration efforts. In a post titled "Warning: This Post is Not About the Interesting Stuff," McAfee juxtaposes two different kinds of technology | View post »

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