Information Strategy News & Articles

Most intranets are not seen as essential to the functioning of an organization. This is because management is not convinced of their strategic value.

Tackling Enterprise Information Management (EIM) this week we looked at the importance of collaboration and reliable data for better business intelligence, how adaptive case management serves the public good and how to create your SharePoint governance plan.

At the ever provocative J. Boye conference in Philadelphia we encountered bold thinkers and even bolder implementers of grand ideas. Innovator Jon Udell talked about how Tags are Information Services, Bob Boiko explored the role of Conversations in your information strategy and a few others expounded on how to create an effective digital marketing strategy.

Other news this week we saw SDL acquire Calamares, then CityGrid Media bought BuzzLabs and plenty of rumors that Facebook would grab Skype.

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• SharePoint, Get It Right the First Time: 7 Strategic & Tactical Steps
• The Keys to Understanding Web Customer Engagement
• ECM + WCM = Your Portal Strategy
• Amazon Promises Full Inquiry into EC2/AWS Outage; Affected Services Comment
• IBM Says Merge your Email into the Activity Stream

Editor's Picks

• Jon Udell Keynote: Tags Are Information Services + 7 Ways to Think Web
  
• When Planning Your Mobile Strategy, Think Deep
• Boiko: Today Information Management is in the Conversation Age
• Get More Value Out of Your Web CMS with a Content Strategy
• SDL Acquires Calamares, Spices Up its Digital Assets

Around the Web

• Cloud Computing and ECM, 5 Things you need to know
• Is distributed content management working for you?
• The Who and What of Mobile BI
• It’s Really About Communication
• The Six Mindsets of Adaptive Leadership

Featured Events (all events | post an event)

• May 11, 2011 -- (Webinar) Best Practices for Engaging Customers via Integrated Marketing Channels - N. America
• May 17, 2011 -- Webinar: Is your website keeping up with the Sales 2.0 revolution?
• May 17, 2011 -- Webinar: Introduction to Rapid Concept Deployment with Jahia 6.5 Open Source Web CMS
• May 18, 2011 -- Forrester Research: How to Reinvent Digital User Experience for 2011
• May 19, 2011 -- HartmanEVENT 2011 in Utrecht, NL

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post a job)

• Enterprise CMS Java Developer at Nuxeo
• Sales Director at One Hippo (Web CMS)
• Inside Sales at Telerik
• Website Properties Manager at SugarCRM
• Business Development Manager at Optify

Amidst the near deafening roar of chirping and tweeting, to say that we're living in the age of the conversation might seem obvious. However, when information scientists, like Bob Boiko take the line, it's generally worth a listen.

Here at the J. Boye '11 conference in Philadelphia Boiko started the day with a talk entitled Social Media and Information Strategy. The lens he's looking through is comprised of the fundamental elements of human conversation and how these are playing an increasingly important role in extracting value from enterprise information. 

The development of the world wide web has been nothing short of breathtaking. Tim Berners-Lee, its inventor, had a vision of a very basic text system back in 1989. Little over 20 years later and the Web has morphed into something he could never have imagined. Not only are we consuming and sharing every media and file format under the sun, but the ways in which we interact with the Web have changed dramatically. We have moved from merely browsing websites to interacting with rich web applications to using all manner of Internet connected applications and devices. 

Welcome to the weekend. Here's a look at some of this week's highlights.

We started the week off taking a look at the values and skills for individuals, teams and management required for successful enterprise collaboration. And we looked at the some of the open source players in this area.

With conferences kicking into high gear, we spent some time at DrupalCon listening the sage insights of people like Clay Shirky and Jared Spool. 

Also this week, Adobe updated SiteCatalyst and launched SocialAnalytics to monitor and measure social conversations while OpenText increased its mobile capabilities through the acquisition of mobile app platform provider weComm.

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• Enterprise Collaboration Requires Critical New Skills
• Enterprise Collaboration: Moving from Need-to-Know to Need-to-Share
• Adobe Wallaby Converts Flash into HTML 5, Bringing Flash to iPhone, iPad
• Overview: SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Taxonomy Management
• How SharePoint 2010 Can Be Used as a Collaboration Hub

Editor's Picks

• Clay Shirky On the Context of Content
  
• Spigit Brings its Idea Management Platform to Facebook
• Open Text Jumpstarts Mobile App Support with weComm Acquisition
• IntraTeam Intranet Conference: Themes and Observations
• 3 (+ 2) Players in Open Source Enterprise Collaboration

Around the Web

• Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business
• Do we really need a Chief Strategy Officer?
• Facebook Challenges Disqus, Releases Free Social Stats
• 5 Ways to Build Customer Engagement
• Gartner: Content management deployments need user level buy-in

Featured Events (all events | post an event)

• Mar 17, 2011 – (Webinar) How 2011 Web Strategy is Evolving, With Forrester's Stephen Powers
• Mar 21, 2011 -- AIIM Conference & Expo 2010 (Info360)
• Mar 23, 2011 -- Online Information APAC (Hong Kong)
• Apr 07, 2011 -- Webinar: CMS Connected
• May 09, 2011 -- Brain Traffic Content Strategy Conference - ConFab 2011

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post a job)

• Communications Associate, YouTube at Google
  
• SEM Analyst at Webtrends
• Business Development Manager at AvePoint
• Manager, Content and Communications at Relativity Press
• Account Executive at Salesforce.com

Bob Boiko and Erik Hartman are at the J Boye Conference in Philadelphia and they want webmasters, knowledge managers and anyone and everyone who works with information to step up and think of themselves as information managers -- and tell everybody.

An open expert roundtable at the J. Boye conference. Panelists included Lisa Welchman, Welchman Pierpoint; Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch; Martin White, principal of Intranet Focus; and moderator and conference host Janus Boye.

Here's a quick review of the discussion held at the roundtable.

Bob Boiko, author of Laughing at the CIO and a speaker at the 2009 J. Boye conference in Philadelphia, advises information managers to get comfortable with saying no. You don't do it by practicing in front of a mirror, even if you're shy. Instead, you practice laying the groundwork to justify the no. In the process, you'll make better decisions and work with more effective people.

Everyone says that information is power, but what does that really mean? Some people talk about information strategy, but that's even murkier. How does an information manager -- a content manager, Webmaster or anyone who works with information -- make sense of all this? And what happens when the boss wants to make your tile and flooring company's intranet "more like Facebook"?

At the J. Boye conference in Philadelphia, Bob Boiko, author of Laughing at the CIO, had some great insights on using information the way that finance uses numbers: to make points and make things happen.