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Transparency on the March?
October 2, 2008 By Jon Husband
Categories: General Web 2.0
We are, in my opinion, collectively watching the "mainstreaming" of a revolt against top-down decisions being imposed on citizens and decision-making processes. People interconnected on the Web are making this happen.
Just one of many examples … CNN pulling up comments from online contributors (via...
Interested in Web 2.0? Pick up a good book
September 30, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is hot right now but there is more hype than knowledge about it out there. That lack of understanding was one of the main themes to come out of two round table discussions held recently by Backbone and KPMG. One of the panelists, Michael Sikorsky of Cambrian House pointed the crowd in...
Using Evernote with a virtual assistant
September 29, 2008 By Danny Bradbury
Categories: General Web 2.0
I’ve been playing with Evernote for some months now, and I’ve been gradually integrating it into my working life. I had a bunch of different requirements, and I’ve been able to bend Evernote to support all of them. It’s a web-based system for storing notes, and it also comes with clients for the Mac...
Trumpeting Toronto Tech
September 24, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Web 2.0
This Monday was the first day of the Toronto Tech Week conference. The event's goal is to foster Toronto as a tech sector and help position local companies to make the most of new and emerging technology. As such, Web 2.0 was a hot topic.
Despite the much-hyped claim that Toronto is the third...
FUD is holding back Web 2.0
September 11, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Web 2.0
While all the cool corporate kids are talking about nothing but Web 2.0 these days, it turns out this brave new world actually scares the heck out of most companies.
A new study from research firm Coleman Parkes found most companies have no formal plans to launch a social media project. The study...
CNN Using Twitter and Facebook During Prime-Time News
September 8, 2008 By Jon Husband
Categories: Web 2.0
I’ve just been watching an interesting new component of CNN prime-time news, wherein Rick Sanchez, one of the current anchors, flashes cherry-picked items from Twitter (Rick’s Twitter Feedback) and from Facebook (Rick’s Facebook Feedback) in order to counter or reinforce the story he has just...
Making the Most Out of LinkedIn - For You & Me
August 5, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0
Now that I'm no longer employed by my former company, I have updated my LinkedIn settings. I also registered glenfarrelly.ca yesterday and thus am now qualified to join Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), so I added that to my profile as well.
LinkedIn offers a lot of features that are...
MyFamilyHealth is a great Web 2.0 health site
August 1, 2008 By Shahid N Shah
Categories: eHealth Web 2.0
The folks at MyFamilyHealth.com have combined online genealogy, social networking, and basic personal health record management for a single and eminently useful purpose: learning more about your family’s medical history to help improve your own health by better understanding your genetic risks. It...
Employees of the next generation enterprise…
July 24, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0
I've mentioned the way different generations use computers before. Tom Hill pointed me to this article on the Military's recognition of the situation. There is a great deal of useful information for corporations in this article. Since the topic seems to be showing up at more conferences it's...
Internet Usage in Canada for last year
July 22, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0
Statistics Canada recently released their new report on Canadian Internet usage.
Among the most interesting findings:
Almost three-quarters (73%) went online for personal reasons last year - up from just over two-thirds (68%) in 2005
Ontario is above national average at 75% (Alberta & BC...
Lee Bryant @ Reboot … The Network Era Is Here To Stay
July 17, 2008 By Jon Husband
Categories: Web 2.0
Via Bertrand Duperrin (whom I enjoyed meeting in Montreal in May .. a very clever and passionate fellow who scours the Web for everything related to Enterprise 2.0).
The network era has been here and has been growing and is here to stay … and there is an opportunity to use technology to help us all,...
Mentors, Gatekeepers and Technology delivery of value for social networks
July 11, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0
Recently there have been some articles about the valuation of LinkedIn and it outpacing Facebook. I was talking with an MBA candidate (that I mentor) about social networks. We were discussing the size and value of his Facebook network vs. mine in LinkedIn. He mentioned the concept of gatekeepers,...
Social Media Explained
June 24, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0
I'm in the process of researching the role of users in creating content and noticed that CommonCraft had recently produced a video on social media. CommonCraft's videos are the best - explain new concepts in ways easy to understand and remember.
Glen Farrelly
Webslinger
Management 2.0
June 9, 2008 By Shahid N Shah
Categories: Web 2.0
Are CIOs seen as obstacles to innovation? In a nice interview with Gary Hamel, Allan Alter at CIO Insight writes:
"The efficiency-focused management model has run its course, says strategist Gary Hamel. To see the future of management, look to the Internet, open source, free markets and democratic...
Negotiating Multifaceted Identity Online in Social Networking Websites
June 6, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Web 2.0
Our real-world identities can be multifaceted and contextually fragmented - we behave one way at work, and another when drinking with friends. Yet social-networking websites collapse “relationship types and contexts into the ubiquitous ‘Friend’” (Boyd, 2007, p.134). Thus one’s online social network...
Open Ontology Repository – a step closer to Semantic web?
June 3, 2008 By Charlie Bess
Categories: Web 2.0
In April, the National Institute of Standards and Technology was one of the sponsors of an Ontology Summit.
The theme was "Towards an Open Ontology Repository".
They've created a Wiki for the Summit as well as a summary of what took place. This is of interest because developing an Open Ontology...
Aftermesh
May 23, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Web 2.0
I should be sleeping, but I figured I would just be recapping in my head the take-aways from the Mesh conference I attended today and yesterday, so I might as well blog it. Mesh is without doubt Canada's web conference, attracting Canadian speakers and attendees doing some of the coolest online work...
eMail is for Losers
May 16, 2008 By Vaclav Vincalek
Categories: Web 2.0
For many years I have been saying 'email is for losers'. The way email is used and the way email systems have been designed—I felt there is something fundamentally wrong with the picture.
Some examples that highlight this are:
people/organizations do not know how to use email—or how to manage it...
Do yourself a favour: buy some music online
April 30, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: General Web 2.0
There have been two rather odd announcements lately in the world of Canadian music retailing. The first came from Sony BMG. The company has started selling a product it calls the Platinum MusicPass. In Sony BMG's plan, when you want to buy an album you drive to a store, buy a Platinum MusicPass card...
This year will see collaborative work take off. And then go too far
April 22, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Web 2.0
A camel is a horse designed by a committee. It's an old joke and, as such, speaks to a deep-seated suspicion of group work, as does the old saw about too many cooks spoiling the broth. The theory is that groups of people cannot produce a good product, because everyone's opinion has weight and has to...
Accounting firms are not marketing with blogs
April 8, 2008 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: General Web 2.0
Law firms continue to outpace accounting firms when it comes to harnessing the power of blogs to market their services to current and potential clients. A recent post by Michelle Golden asks the question “Isn’t Your Firm Blogging Yet?” and the answer apparently is no.
The post quotes this one from...
I Think We'll See More Of This
March 17, 2008 By Jon Husband
Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0
I got up early this morning (5h15 am) so that I could go and frolic in that nice white fluffy powdery stuff called snow, falling down the steep sides of cliffs in a barely-controlled fashion. I love very much this activity, as you have to stay completely "in the present" to avoid doing significant...
For All Those Who Have Said Blogging Was Just A Fad ...
March 11, 2008 By Jon Husband
Categories: Web 2.0
I remember literally scores of conversations over the past five years with smart people in various areas of business and the professions ... almost all of whom were over approximately 35 years old ... in which they were dismissive of blogging, for one or other of the various now-well-known reasons...
User Tagging Effective Aid for Online Searching
March 6, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Web 2.0
Due to an ever-growing abundance of online information, there is increasing difficulty in finding useful information. Currently, most web data is coded to instruct browsers to display data, without regard for meaning. By adding metadata to denote what data means, search engines can offer more useful...
Can Microsoft catch up?
March 3, 2008 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Software Companies Web 2.0
There's a buzz online right now that Microsoft -- long weary of all the attention young-upstart Google is getting -- is finally getting ready to strike back with a more extensive online offering of its own. Check out CNET's blog for one good entry on this.
The CNET post quotes blogger Nick Carr, who...
Interview for a job, get paid
February 15, 2008 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: IT Staffing Solutions Web 2.0
The site is called NotchUp and allows employers to pay to interview job candidates who otherwise wouldn’t be looking for a new job.
Associated Press has the lowdown:
How it works: You plug in your industry, job, pay and experience into a calculator on the site to help you set your pay for an...
Academic Research Online Is a Walled Garden
February 12, 2008 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: Online Education and MBAs Web 2.0
I've been consumed for the past three weeks researching and writing papers for my Master’s program. I managed to write one paper an Internet topic (a semiotic analysis of folksonomies) and added as many Net references in the others as I could.
In the process of researching online on online topics, I...
Facebook as the intranet
January 9, 2008 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0
When I first heard about the company using Facebook as their intranet, I wasn’t sure what to think.
"Serena Software is really replacing its existing intranet with Facebook as a front end linked to a low-cost content management system behind the firewall. The firm is just over 800 employees but is...
Cyberchondriac or healthy surfing?
December 20, 2007 By Glen Farrelly
Categories: eHealth Web 2.0
The CBC, my favourite online news source, ran a story three days ago on how people obsessively look up their medical ailments on the Web. The article, while pointing out some legitimate concerns, tended to depict these people as crackpots and hypochondriacs. Indeed, the article was even called...
In praise of old-fashioned lazy entertainment
December 19, 2007 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0
From a recent Nokia press release: Up to a quarter of the entertainment consumed by people in five years time will have been created, edited and shared within their peer circle, rather than coming out of traditional media groups. "The trends we are seeing show us that people will have a genuine...
I Don't Think I Fully Agree ... Fishnets
November 29, 2007 By Jon Husband
Categories: Web 2.0
.. with this statement lifted from the recent Globe and Mail review of Gary Hamel's book The Future of Management.
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The End of Management As We Know It ?
[ Snip ... ]
We also must learn from the Internet's example of widespread, leaderless collaborative effort. "The Web has evolved faster than...
Using RSS to keep up with your favourite sites
November 26, 2007 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: Web 2.0
If you want to keep up with this blog but don’t want to have to remember to check back on a regular basis, one option available to you is the RSS feed.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or...
Using wikis or blogs to manage knowledge in firms
November 16, 2007 By Neil McIntyre
Categories: Web 2.0
A recent article on WebCPA confused and inspired me:
Accounting firms need to become more intelligent businesses by better leveraging the time and knowledge of their professional staff, according to a survey…
[…]
Firms with a formal knowledge management program benefited from its implementation.
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Google Apps is great, except for the Patriot Act and confidentiality and all that
November 13, 2007 By Peter Wolchak
Categories: Software Companies Web 2.0
My editorial in the current (November 2007) issue highlights some of the significant advantages that Google Apps delivers to corporate users. (The article is here.)
It prompted a letter from reader Jim Charters of Toronto, and before I go any further I want to thank Jim for writing and to encourage...
Dave Snowden Podcast ... The Impact of Web 2.0 on Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management
October 29, 2007 By Jon Husband
Categories: Web 2.0
I recently caught up with http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/, the well-known complexity theorist / expert and acknowledged guru on the construction and use of knowledge ... quite a feat given Dave's last-minute bout with gastroenteritis, his round-the-word schedule and his doggedly determined...
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