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{ Monthly Archives } March 2008

links for 2008-03-16

10 Ideas to Take LinkedIn to the Next Level: Because It Needs It (Sorry Guys) « SmoothSpan Blog Now that people are starting to realize that Facebook and LinkedIn serve two different markets, it’s time to take a hard look at what LinkedIn really needs to do in order to become THE business social network. [...]

links for 2008-03-14

BPMS.info Le portail du management des processus – BPM – BPA Another BPM reference site in French. (tags: bpm) Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio A few that I’ve heard of, but many that I haven’t and want to try out. (tags: wordpress blogging webdesign)

links for 2008-03-13

Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com >> Blog Archive » True Names, Part 01 Cory Doctorow and Ben Rosenbaum read their novella “True Names” in weekly installments. Get it here or subscribe on iTunes. (tags: books)

BPMN survey results

I really didn’t sit down this afternoon to write that last enormous post on the Great BPMN Debate, I remembered that Jan Recker (co-author on the research paper that sparked the debate, although not a participant in the debate) had sent me a pre-release copy of a paper that he authored, “BPMN Modeling — Who, [...]

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The Great BPMN Debate

If you have even a passing interest in BPMN, you’re probably aware of the great debate happening amongst a few of the BPM bloggers in the past week: Michael zur Muehlen and Jan Recker publish an academic research paper on BPMN usage, “How Much Language is Enough? Theoretical and Practical Use of the Business Process [...]

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Forrester webinar on Enterprise 2.0 strategy

Really wanted to be on the Socialtext-sponsored Forrester webinar today on Enterprise 2.0 strategy, but one minor logistical problem intervened: they didn’t provide the password in the confirmation or reminder emails. I’m listening in on the call, but it’s not really the same without the visuals. Obviously some people did get on, since they mentioned [...]

Should connecting on a social network = signing up for marketing blasts?

When I connect to someone on a social network such as LinkedIn or Facebook, I expect to be connected to them personally, not to their company’s marketing machine. Yes, I know, it’s common to farm our online contact lists for potential customers, but I found this recent email to be a bit over the top: [...]

links for 2008-03-12

Ten Tactics That Could Save Your Online Reputation Tips on managing how the world views you online. Intended for corporations, but many points equally valid for individuals. The key: sincerity, transparency, and consistency (tags: blogging marketing) 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You — Cory Doctorow — InformationWeek Great tips from Cory Doctorow [...]

What’s the Difference?

I’ve been heads down in work for the past couple of weeks since I last attended a conference, and although I seem to find time to read and comment on a number of blogs, I haven’t written much. I did find time, however, to be involved in a small video project with my talented photographer [...]

links for 2008-03-10

BPM.com – Article Peter Fingar on process patterns: nearly identical to the recent process patterns blog post by Jim Sinur, although Fingar splits out the knowledge-worker processes into ad-hoc case management and innovation processes. (tags: bpm) BPMN Training A sample of Bruce Silver’s online “Process Modeling with BPMN” course — the newly-released third version — [...]

links for 2008-03-09

Michael Gartenberg – Java for iPhone? Why? Irony of the day: Jupiter analyst write a 2-line post finishing with the question “Any developers out there care to comment?” However, the blog doesn’t appear equipped to accept comments. How about some research on defining characteristics of a blog? (tags: blogging)

links for 2008-03-08

Open Parenthesis » Automated Import to Dopplr from TripIt OMG!! A way to auto-import TripIt trips to Dopplr, meaning that I don’t have to slavishly update each site with every trip. I like them both for different reasons, but was considering giving up Dopplr because of the double-entry issue. (tags: travel) globeandmail.com: CBC axes Hockey [...]

links for 2008-03-07

Treasury Dept confiscates domain names of Brit travel agent who booked Cuba tours – Boing Boing Scary — apparently the US govt has the power to take your .com domain away if they don’t like your content, even if your content isn’t hosted in the US and isn’t intended for a US audience (tags: rights) [...]

links for 2008-03-06

reportonbusiness.com: SaaS gives small business a big engine Software as a service mentioned in the general business section of a national newspaper, not a geek publication – this is a breakthrough. (tags: saas) Google Calendar Sync for Microsoft Outlook Finally! (tags: productivity) BPEL4People vs. BPMN: your dead horse is my thoroughbred Too funny: a vendor [...]

links for 2008-03-05

Agile IT Architecture: A Cycle Approach for Business Rule Development The five steps to business rule development explained: discovery, analysis, authoring, validation and deployment. Via James Taylor. (tags: brm) Prevalent Process Patterns Enable BPM Benefits Differently | Jim Sinur’s BPM Blog Great post by Jim Sinur on the three main process patterns: basically, integration-centric STP, [...]

links for 2008-03-04

WordPress › Support » Akismet: how to stop false positives? I am having this problem with every WordPress blog that I comment on: I have to email the blog owner and ask them to retrieve my comment from the spam filter. Apparently, Akismet can send someone’s comment to spam even if they’re on your whitelist. [...]

links for 2008-03-03

Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WordPress as a Membership Directory Also links to an article on WordPress as a contact manager. (tags: wordpress) The Axis of Misery | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon Tara Hunt on the difference between industries that deliver misery versus those that deliver happiness. It’s not about the product, it’s about [...]

links for 2008-03-01

Phil Gilbert | Perspectives in Process Phil gets back to blogging after a long hiatus with a philosophical post from TED about process. (tags: bpm) Enterprise 2.0 » Blog Archive » The Enterprise 2.0 Oscars Great list of Enterprise 2.0 thought leaders. Truly terrible theme: small, dark-on-dark print, very hard to read. (tags: enterprise2.0) Tools [...]