Skip to content

{ Monthly Archives } January 2009

links for 2009-01-30

Tweet Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » The Rise and Fall of the Millenials? Good (and short) points on the value social networking in the enterprise: "From an IT executive’s perspective, social networking isn’t about giving the millenials a place to play, rather it’s about how to improve the flow of information throughout an [...]

links for 2009-01-29

Tweet ClipNabber – download videos from Dailymotion, Veoh, Youtube and more! Capture a YouTube (and other video sources) video for download in FLV or iPod format, directly from a website/bookmark. (tags: fun) Building Value Through Business Process Management in a Downturn Economy Am I missing something? I requested to attend this free, IBM-sponsored event, which [...]

Gartner on Emergency IT Cost Cutting

TweetI had a heads up this morning via Shane Schick’s Twitter stream that Gartner was holding a webinar on emergency cost cutting in IT, featuring Kurt Potter, and 20 minutes later I was there. Gartner’s been talking with a lot of their customers about the impact of the recession, and although most are not in [...]

links for 2009-01-27

Tweet SAP Network Blogs Reducing process model complexity by using the correct end event. Not specific to NetWeaver BPM. (tags: bpmn)

links for 2009-01-26

Tweet SOAsocial IBM's aggregator site for SOA-related posts from a variety of sources. Also posted to the @soasocial Twitter account. (tags: soa) SAP Network Blogs How to build a process in SAP NetWeaver BPM, including the use of rules in the BRM. (tags: bpm sap) Business Process Management (BPM) – How to Select the Right [...]

ChangeCamp

TweetThere are few things that will get me out of bed early on a wintry Saturday morning. ChangeCamp is one of them: an unconference dedicated to re-imaging (Canadian) government and citizenship in the age of participation. My friend Mark, who is passionate about government, change and unconferences, is one of the ringleaders here, but there’s [...]

links for 2009-01-23

Tweet WordPress Tutorial: Managing WordPress Auto-save and Post Revision Control – WordPress SEO and Blog Marketing Reducing or eliminating the revision tracking in your WordPress blog. Since I mostly author offline using Windows Live Writer, then publish directly when I'm done, I rarely have revisions on a post, but this makes sense for those who [...]

Appian Analyst Update

TweetMatt Calkins and Samir Gulati from Appian were on a short analyst call today to give us a summary of 2008 and a preview of 2009. They had some big changes this year: expanding their marketing efforts, launching their SaaS offering with customers like Starbucks and Manulife, and expanding geographically into Europe and Asia. Much [...]

IBM “Resource Action” in progress this week

TweetThere have been rumors for a few weeks about impending job cuts at IBM, and they’re coming down this week. I’ve heard from people I know within IBM (mostly the old FileNet organization, where I worked in 2000-01) that it’s hitting the software group pretty hard. If you check the Job Cut Status page on [...]

Gartner webinar: First 100 days as BP director

TweetIn keeping with other recently-installed change agents, Elise Olding of Gartner delivered a webinar today on your first 100 days as a business process director. As she points out, you have 100 days to make some key first impressions and get things rolling, and although you may not necessarily deliver very much in that time, [...]

links for 2009-01-20

Tweet SAP Network Blogs A post on some fine points of the dangers of mixing gateway types, and mixing back edges with AND joins in BPMN. Not specific to SAP Netweaver BPM. You have to love an author who can write sentences such as "While token duplication cannot clearly be classified as erroneous, it is [...]

Some memes never die

TweetBarton George tagged me on the latest internet meme to tell you seven things about me. Given that less than two years ago, I played along with the “five things you don’t know about me” meme, I figure that I only owe you two more: I prefer to go barefoot, or at least sock-less, whenever [...]

links for 2009-01-18

Tweet Facebook | Gartner Ah, here's the main Gartner page on Facebook, which includes links to the events. Unfortunately, the BPM summit events here are separate duplicates of the ones from the BPM summit page — there has to be a better way to do this. They also hide the (self-subscribed) attendee list, which completely [...]

Bookmarks for January 17th

TweetThese are my links for January 17th: WordPress.tv – Just getting started with WordPress, or trying to figure out how to do something with the latest release? WordPress.tv has tutorial videos plus footage from some of the WordCamps around the world.

West Bend Insurance does BPM

TweetI attended a webinar today, sponsored by Lombardi, featuring Stacie Kenney, a senior business process analyst at West Bend Mutual Insurance, discussing how they used BPM to allow them to tap into new insurance markets. West Bend has been around since 1894 and have a strong customer base in P&C insurance in the Midwest, but [...]

Tagged

Bookmarks for January 11th

TweetThese are my links for January 11th: Making SOA Work: Clouds and SaaS – An insight on why corporate IT is resisting the cloud: "Most IT management still defines data center operations and computing resource provisioning as part of their core competency, rather than a focus on maximizing the automation of core corporate business processes."

Bookmarks for January 6th

TweetThese are my links for January 6th: Ada Lovelace Day – More on Ada Lovelace Day. ‘I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire’ – PledgeBank – In support of raising the profile of women in technology on Ada Lovelace day, sign up to pledge [...]

Bookmarks for January 5th

TweetThese are my links for January 5th: Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – SOA, the "great failed experiment". I especially like the graphic of the SOAsaurus about to be hit by the economy meteor.

Bookmarks for January 5th

TweetThese are my links for January 5th: il blog del BPM: Un’altra tesi sul BPM – If your Italian is better than mine (which isn't difficult, since mine is limited to food-related terms and asking "Which way to the cathedral"?), you can read this university thesis on human process orchestration in BPM. I'm very encouraged [...]

Bookmarks for January 1st

TweetThese are my links for January 1st: How to unlock your 3G iPhone – Unlocking your iPhone for use with other carriers.