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Thursday, Jul 10 2008

Back in the mists of time, a couple of Stanford PhD students called Larry and Sergey came up with an idea to make searching on the web better. This they undoubtedly did. But skulking in the low-rent dens of Silicon Valley and elsewhere an army of wannabe moguls work tirelessly on usurping the Mountain View giant.

Whether for niche searches or for the whole web search prize, whether by human-powered or visual methods, whether by developing cunning semantic algorithms or by Social means, all these platforms have one thing in common: they all want to take a bite out of Google.com’s posterior.

Tuesday, Jul 8 2008

Ever since its release, there have been questions about SharePoint’s (MOSS’) fitness as a web content management solution (see our article series on MOSS WCM).

While the jury may still be out on this question, it does not appear to be deliberating on the question of SharePoint’s social features. Microsoft is continuing to improve its community features, they have also been working closely with a partner, Telligent, who can provide this functionality as a direct SharePoint integration.

Funny thing is, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen these two products doing the tango. SharePoint Solutions has a service offering that does the exact same thing.

Friday, May 2 2008

Online collaboration has become a top priority in organizations today as they struggle share information that is contained within a wide range of applications, directories, desktops and people’s minds. According to a recent report, many of these organizations are looking to the wiki to resolve their collaboration issues due to its ability to support unstructured information using a more bottom up approach to information sharing.

But the wiki may not be living up to all the hype and sales pitches from the technology vendors. There are a number of challenges to implementing and supporting wiki-style collaboration and some best practices that you need to consider before moving forward with your wiki implementation.

Tuesday, Apr 22 2008

They didn’t win the Crunchie for “Best Enterprise Start-up” for nothing. Zoho is back at it, introducing the newest edition to their enterprise toolset — Zoho CRM - Enterprise Edition. This enhanced version of their online CRM service is packed with features and functionality required by enterprise organizations.

Wednesday, Apr 2 2008

Educational web managers are often lonely, misunderstood geeks who are crucial members of the communications staff but get unfairly lumped in with IT.

These dedicated souls must synthesize content for a variety of audiences (faculty, administration, parents, alumni, students) while also single-handedly updating calendars, uploading forms, and managing schedules.

Monday, Mar 31 2008

Traditional advertising is broken because it charges us time, when time is becoming our most valuable resource.

Tuesday, Mar 4 2008

KMWorld has published it’s annual list of ‘Companies That Matter’ in Knowledge Management. Editor Hugh McKellar and an esteemed board of industry-savvy judges have sifted through the marketing gloop, sorted the wheat from the chaff, held up the KM Champions and banished the chancers and n’er do wells to eternal KM oblivion.

Until next year, at least.

Friday, Feb 22 2008

Heads up North American CMSers, CMS Watch will be front and center at the AIIM International Exposition & Conference, the granddaddy of all content and information events in North America.

CMS Watch will be leading a conference session designed to help IT professionals discover how to turn content into a powerful business tool.

Wednesday, Feb 13 2008

A new connector has been launched which brings the Elluminate Live! virtual classroom to Moodle Web CMS.

Elluminate Bridge allows Moodle users to access real-time Elluminate Live! sessions, which incorporate the following dazzling features:

Tuesday, Feb 5 2008

Have you ventured ‘outside the box’ today?

Many businesses claim they’re innovative when it comes to the Internet, but few seem to demonstrate it.

Most stay on the cushy path, eagerly following cyber herds with the tried-and-true. “Why take a chance?” After all, going outside the box can be downright scary.

One group that relentlessly ventures into the unknown is “an ideas studio” named Burnkit, which is made up of 14 “thinkers” in Vancouver, BC.

Friday, Jan 25 2008

Doing their best impersonation of the Westminster Kennel Club, Macworld gives numerous independent software vendors the opportunity to compete for the coveted “Best of Show” award.

And the 2008 winner is…

Monday, Jan 14 2008

Jakob Nielsen has released his latest Intranet Design Annual. In it he lists the 10 best Intranets for 2008, discussing why they won. While the winners are interesting to know, what’s even more important are the reasons why they won – offering best practices and guidance to companies who want to make their own Intranet better.