Ross Mayfield of Socialtext gave the last keynote of the morning, discussing the evolution of wiki usage in enterprises. Many enterprise systems started out being about automating the business processes, and we ended up with file-centric paradigms of collaboration and rigid document management practices. Wikis, on the other hand, allowed for less rigid collaboration, although [...]
Dan Keldsen and Carl Frappaolo of AIIM gave a quick review of the recent AIIM study on Enterprise 2.0. Their first finding: age doesn’t really matter, culture does. Finally, someone else who sees this: I’m so tired of the view from people my age who make it an age issue when really the issue is [...]
The Enterprise 2.0 conference kicked off yesterday with some workshops, but I just flew in this morning and am at my first session of the day (although not *the* first session of the day), a keynote by Google’s Rishi Chandra on cloud computing. The same key message (buy lots of Google cloud computing ) but [...]
View Flickr Photos in Google Earth View all geotagged photos in Flickr overlaid on Google Earth (tags: google web2.0 tools) Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption Instant messaging at work, if used effectively, can actually reduce interruptions: use it to check if someone is available for a longer conversation, for example, or to [...]
Almost two years ago, I reported on the IBM acquisition of FileNet, wherein I quoted their plan to “integrate IBM’s BPM and SOA technologies with the FileNet platform”. I interpreted this to mean that FileNet BPM could finally get separated from its document-centric chains, and become the product that it should have been years ago. [...]
Michael Geist – Prentice’s Staff Scrubbing Copyright Controversy From Wikipedia Entry Industry Canada anonymously removes information on the upcoming copyright bill from the Industry Minister’s Wikipedia entry, and are outed by Michael Geist. Pretty bad form for a government agency. (tags: canada copyright) » TTC.ca beta site to be previewed tomorrow • Spacing Toronto • [...]
Jesper @ Work: Next Steps: Life after BEA Jesper Joergensen moves on from BEA/Oracle, as have many of my friends there. (tags: bpm) Business Process Management (BPM) – BPMS Watch: Which Way for BPMN? More on the battle for the BPMN serialization format. (tags: bpdm bpmn xpdl) IBM developerWorks : Blogs : The Business Process [...]
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to see Fujitsu’s new process discovery product/service in action. Unlike the usual sort of process discovery, which involves business analysts running around and documenting what people are doing, this automates the discovery of business processes by examining logs of existing applications. The problem with the manual process [...]
Why Judy can’t add: gender inequality and the math gap Want to see how your country really measures up in gender equality? Check the gap in math skills at age 15; there isn’t one in countries with political and economic gender equality. (tags: education women)
