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Trials and Tribulations of Converting a Blog from Squarespace 5 to Mobile-Friendly Squarespace 7
The initial importation of text, images, categories, and links from 5 to 7 went very smoothly.
Or so I thought.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has joined other Federal agencies in seeking input on how to proceed with development of its “digital strategy.”
The EPA's Mobile Web Site is Great (except for one thing)
I’m impressed with the U.S. Environment Protection Agency’s mobile web site.
Collaboration Can Be Messy
Collaboration can be messy. Convincing a group of people to work together to accomplish a common objective, especially when the group contains many people that don’t know each other, requires artful leadership.
It’s fashionable these days to point to Facebook’s ascendancy as why Google-type search’s dominance of the Internet is over.
I usually don’t pay much attention to “death of” web posts — unless I’m writing them, of course — but Kevin Cavanaugh’s Death of the Document is definitely worth a read.
Two Simple Organizing Models for Communication Program Planning
Sometimes I need to be whacked on the side of the head to keep things simple.
Okay, I don’t have an iPhone and I don’t use Lotus Connections, but I think this demo of Lotus Connections on the iPhone is really cool:
The Knowledge Management Section of the U.S. Army’s Field Manual FM 6-01.1 is a classic example of the formal structure and organization one can apply to just about any organizational process that requires management.
Social Networking and Elsevier's "Grand Challenge" for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
Netherlands-based mega-publisher (and former employer) Elsevier BV has issued a grand challenge:
Presentation: Blogging and Project Management Survey - Preliminary Findings
This presentation is a progress report on the dozen or so interviews I’ve conducted so far in my blogging and project management survey:
James Robertson’s recent post Collaboration tools are anti knowledge sharing? got me thinking about the introduction of technology-enabled collaboration into large organizations. (Thanks to Jack Vinson for bringing this article to my attention via Twitter).
CIO.com's Seven Reasons for Your Company to Start an Internal Blog lists the following:
1. Your enterprise e-mail applications are not easy to search.
2. Your e-mail is lost in the eye of the “cc storm.”
3. Ex-employees can take it with them.
4. Too much wasted time checking in with colleagues.
5. With blogs, the humble and the egotist both win.
6. Organizational openness and accountability.
7. People might already be using them.
The best podcasts I’ve heard recently on enterprise adoption of social media are two interviews with Toby Redshaw of Motorola by Dan Bricklin. One is from March of 2006 and the other from March 2007.
Five Factors That Influence Successful Corporate Adoption of Internal Social Media and Web 2.0 Initiatives
While tracking adoption of “web 2.0” applications such as internal blogs, wikis, and social book marking systems by large organizations, I’m seeing a couple of factors emerging that, anecdotally at least, appear to be associated with successful adoption.
Assessing Gartner Support for Corporate Web 2.0 Planning
Recently Dennis Howlett, another Social Media Collective member, wrote about Gartner and its views on Web 2.0. Since I had an opportunity recently on behalf of a client to do some digging through Gartner’s reports and data and to talk with a number of Gartner’s analysts, I thought I’d share here some of my own observations.
Ed Felten, in Judge Geeks Out, Says Cablevision DVR Infringes, provides an overviw of how technology played into a recent court decision on a case where Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. was pitted against Cablevisions Systems Corp. (2007 WL 867093). The issue: