Connectbeam is a social bookmarking and networking appliance. For inhouse deployment. Integrate into blogs, wikis, SharePoint, and other things. Chuck showed me an example … opened a Confluence wiki page, added tags. Within Outlook, adds a social contact card, showing what the person has been tagging recently. Eg, […]
James Robertson from Step Two is talking about collaboration tools, and how to make them successful in the organization. James said that without the right upfront planning, collaboration tools usage will fail. Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration [+ audio] View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: […]
Post-lunch I attended a session on market research trends on enterprise social software. The presenters have recently done a 600 respondent survey on the use of enterprise social software tools; the respondents were information workers. Craig from Sector Intelligence Key issues for purchasing ESS services: – to improve […]
My session evaluating SharePoint for collaboration against the 7 Pillars framework was just before lunch. I didn’t attempt to live blog, but thanks to Eric for doing so. See: http://www.ericmackonline.com Thanks, too, for the feedback after the session from James re the things I could do better, eg, […]
Susan Hanley is talking about successful portals, and will be talking about SharePoint, but with more general principles too. See Susan’s web site. Agenda: – Introduction – Key elements of successful solutions – Summary Introduction Why is a portal so different? – you can’t mandate the use of […]
Tony is talking about email archiving (a “fundamentally boring topic”), but you have to do things about this. See CMS Watch. Agenda: – message mountain – business drivers – what the technology does – marketplace 2008 analysis Message Mountain From Oracle, active documents were about 1m documents and […]
The first post-lunch session I attended was entitled Linking Collaboration, Intranet, Policy, Practice, and Feedback, offered by the United Nations. At the current time, the Peace Operations part of the UN is here to stay, and has between 15-20 operations going on at the moment. There are new […]
Google sponsored a great lunch (chicken, potatoes and salad), the Google Enterprise team talked about what it does. Showed a couple of videos: – the enterprise search appliance (just add nothing). Tony Byrne from CMS Watch is sitting next to me, and what he said to that I […]
Steve said that he could, in theory, make an argument that the $20 billion of revenue for Accenture was the ROI for knowledge management (given the company sells services, not products). But … he’s more focused on a specific example today. – focus on one component of KM […]
Grant and Moira finished early, so I dropped into James’s sessions on the recent Intranet Innovations Awards 2008 programme. He was talking about Transfield Services, who won a Gold award for “Team Sites in a Box”. Key ideas: have a governance plan for SharePoint for collaboration: – anticipate […]
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