FASTforward - The Blog
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Discuss and debate how a new generation of search and search-driven applications are impacting the way we do business, compete, learn, build communities, socialize, and save, store, and search data.
The blog, like FASTforward '07, aims to drive and deepen conversation about how today’s companies can "Innovate, Accelerate and Dominate."
Please join us for what we hope will be a fun and engaging conversation that begins on the blog, is fully extended and realized at the conference, and, if we’re lucky, continues on past the conference.
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Knowledge work and micro-processes
Recently, I sat through a presentation about a Sharepoint-based intranet project to improve processes within the HR group of a medium-sized organization. The process in question was one of collecting annual performance reviews throughout the organization. Using Sharepoint, the HR group and their consultants replaced Word documents, spreadsheets, and email with Infopath forms and programmatic [...]
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Update on the Obama Campaign’s Use of the Web
Last week I spoke again with Colin Jones, a Regional Manager for the Public Sector and the RightNow project manager for the Obama effort and Andrew Hull, Director of Product Marketing to get an update on Obama’s use of the web through RightNow. See Obama’s Answer Center - CRM from RightNow on the Campaign Trail [...]
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Office 2.0 Conference coming up
I am sad to say that I will be missing the Office 2.0 conference for the first time ever. I went and was completely inspired at the first one, and was a co-organizer last year.
There are a few things about Office 2.0 that put it above most other conferences. Here are my thoughts:
The Gadget
Obviously this [...]
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Denver - Twitter as a News Service - TweetDeck a major help?
Many of the conventional news services will be going all out in Denver this week at the Democratic Convention. Many Bloggers are there too. But I think that this may be the Twitter Convention too.
Here are just a few from the PBS system:
Laura Hertzfeld, Vote 2008 producer: http://twitter.com/Laura_PBS
PBS Vote 2008: http://twitter.com/pbsvote2008
NewsHour: http://twitter.com/NewsHour
Tavis Smiley: http://twitter.com/tavissmiley
My [...]
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Managing Data in the Clouds
Will integration issues dampen the enthusiasm around cloud computing? What are the role of data environments in these new scenarios?
The folks that manage data integration have some interesting observations to make on this topic. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Chris Boorman, chief marketing officer with Informatica, and Ron Papas, senior vice president [...]
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If We Ever Get Tired of the Term ‘Enterprise 2.0,’ Here are Some Ideas
Monikers and buzzwords are rampant across our industries. There has been plenty of teeth-gnashing and guffawing over the ‘Web 2.0′ term, right down to lawsuits over its use with conference venues. The term itself has gotten plenty of eye-rolls, and eyes really start to roll if someone mentions ‘Web 3.0′
Enterprise 2.0 has had fewer eye-rolls, [...]
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The Human Voice - Leroy Sievers
Leroy Sievers died this weekend. This picture is one of him blogging for NPR on his cancer. His column on the NP Blog is called “My Cancer“.
I post about Leroy today not just to honor a great journalist and a courageous man but to make a point about voice. The human voice that is central [...]
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Some 2008 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories - Tell Me More
A while back I posted a number of Enterprise 2.0 success stories for 2007 on the AppGap blog. They came from this blog and my Portals and KM blog. Now, I am starting to collect stories from 2008. Recently, after an exchange of emails I got this list from Justin Kistner of Voce [...]
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Saving the Newspapers, Should the Focus be on Content or Audience?
Whenever we meet with a traditional media company, I count the number of times “content” is mentioned relative to the word “audience.” (Yes I’m still paying attention, but I’m playing my counting game anyway). Without fail, you hear ‘content’ more often.
Why? Most media companies are still in an old fashioned mindset: content is where the [...]
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Dick Fosbury - Why the 2.0 Organization will have to wait for the Kids
It’s fitting during the 2008 Olympics that we recall Dick Fosbury who in 1968 revolutionized the high jump by doing something amazing - he went over backwards. Until then all top rated high jumpers used the straddle.
As you read the story of the Flop and how the establishment reacted, think about organizations today and how [...]
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