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Entries from May 2007

email as collaboration; email as social networking

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

In my last post, I reported on JP Rangaswami’s open email system. By opening his email to his staff, he has essentially created a ‘cost-free’ collaboration forum with no learning curve.
I can easily imagine the value of an email server add-on that would allow anyone to turn any email to which she had access into […]

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JP Rangaswami’s “open email” system

May 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This morning I read about JP Rangaswami’s open email system in a post by Stowe Boyd. JP has
opened access to his email to his staff. By treating his email as an open forum, he has found that his associates are more involved in his interactions with others. He has found that they can use this […]

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How often do you go unwired, Jeff asks?

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Jeff Pulver’s “question of the day” for today is “How often do you go unwired?”
In my case, almost never — but the “almost” part of that answer allows me to say that I’ve been unwired for much of the last week. I gave readings Saturday and Sunday evenings with my old friend and fellow poet, […]

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More on Enterprise 2.0, conflict and SAP

May 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Last week I wrote about a Wall Street Journal article chronicling the conflicts that globalization has led to at SAP (full text of the WSJ article here). We can expect more problems of this ilk as companies employ Enterprise 2.0 tools to ease global collaboration and social networking.
Shai Agassi, who left SAP recently, was quoted […]

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Enterprise software, 3d Generation — Shai Agassi on E3G

May 21st, 2007 · No Comments

In a series of posts, Shai Agassi has taken up the subject of enterprise software, the third generation on his blog. It’s essential reading.
In his first post, Shai “looked at the following four layers in the stack: Store, Compute, Messaging, Presentation” and saw the following characteristics for the new generation:

Storage moves to some combination of […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Rave coming up this Monday & Tuesday - and it’s free!

May 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Hylton Joliffe reminds us that…
…the Enterprise 2.0 Rave is now a virtual event that can be attended, for free, by all who register. The program, organized by Longworth Venture Partners and sponsored by FAST, kicks off at 2 p.m. on Monday in discussions led by Euan Semple, John Musser, Jevon MacDonald, Susan Scrupski, Joe McKendrick, […]

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Social Computing, culture and conflict.

May 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The recent flap at and about Digg, which first pulled then allowed community-generated posts w/ a key for breaking DVD encryption, is an example of one way social computing and the user generation of ‘content’ (hate that word) can lead to conflict. Jevon MacDonald has written about the flap on the FASTf0rward blog.
Is it a […]

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Meet Charlie

May 17th, 2007 · No Comments

I love this presentation. Great for people who want a quick intro to “enterprise 2.0″ — really to the whole of social computing.

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Contact

May 9th, 2007 · No Comments

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Dion Hinchcliffe on “Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst”

May 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Dion Hinchcliffe’s post with the above title is too useful for you to rely on my summary. All the same, here is the key point, as I see it. Hinchcliffe notes that
“business “culture… often holds back what’s possible in terms of information technology — certainly for good reasons at times — but just as often […]

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