Did enterprise RSS die before having lived ?

June 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

According to a very old tradition which cycles are accelerated by internet and that wants people to get rid of their idols with as much energy as they spent to adulate them, there is not a single week without the announce of the death of a technology. The future dead of the week is : RSS (we’ll talk about portails and emails in the upcoming weeks).

Lee Bryant wrote a very good note about that. A note that said so many sensible things that there is no need to add anything. So I’ll focus on two points that I consider being very important : the very usefulness of RSS and its possible replacement by microblogging tools, embodied for the general public by Her Majesty Twitter

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Webcom 2009 : My schedule

May 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

As promised, this is the schedule of the speeches I’ll attend tomorrow. We shared the work out with the other bloggers.

We will all cover the plenary keynotes, and I’ll focus more particularly on :

• 8h50 : Case Study : Who do you think we are? Opening our information architecture to the outside world.Maybe you’ll wonder what’s in it for me. My purpose will be to rely on this case in order to understand if it can apply to an internal problematic and to what extent employees can be involved in the design of the corporate information system.

• 10h00 : The New Normal: the Web as a High-Performance Tool in a Shifting Economy. You can guess why I will attend just by reading the summary. At the same time, I would have liked to hear Caroline Allard speaking about Corporate Indentity through Social Networks for obvious reasons. It doesn’t matter since Caroline promised me an individual interview, what will make it simplier for me to have her insights on more specific issues.

• 10h40 : Real intranet tools to boost communication & innovation in the enterprise.  No need to explain….

• 11h20 : Open Innovation – the fuel for growth and change. Essential, isn’t it ? It’s been such a long time I’ve been looking at what Innocentive is doing…

• 14h10 : Knowledge, skills, and information-sharing: balancing new technology and human potential to add value to your organisation

• 14h50 : Panel: Data Portability does this means something for YOU ! ? My purpose here is to get the essential basics in order, afterwards, to widen it to internal corporate issues and, later again to think about data portability between personal and business platforms. People are more and more torn between many platforms to the same things in different contexts although they are only one unique person. I don’t think this unproductive situation will be able to last a long time at the current pace.

So, see you tomorrow on twitter, starting at 8h00. I think I’ll make live coverage, trying to add a thought here and there. I’ll try to mix french and english in order to please all my followers. Afterwards I’ll try to provide you with more deeper analysis. It may take a little time since my days are unfortunately only 24hrs long ;-) and I want to take the most from my vacation week in Montreal and see all my friends here.

Humm…. and don’t limit yourself to me. On twitter (and elsewhere) the official tag will be… webcom2009

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Webcom is next wednesday

May 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

After having been a speaking last year, I’ll be attending Webcom Montreal as “official blogger”. This year again the schedule is very promising.

I’ve almost decided what speeches I’m going to listen (some choices have still to be made because some of them will occur at the same time).

Since I’ve never liked live blogging (no need to write deep analysis, lack of hindsight), I think I will :

• Make a live coverage on twitter (make sure you’re follwing me at  http://www.twitter.com/bduperrin if not done already).

• In the following days and weeks, deeper analysis of things that grab my attention.

• Maybe some interviews of….whom I want

I’ll try to publish my own schedule on tuesday evening in order you know when you need to follow me…or not.

By the way, which speeches would you attend if you were there ? Which of them are right into you concerns ? Maybe your inputs will help me to make my choices…

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Social tools are tools before being social

May 1, 2008 By 1 Comment

Obviously many people are wondering how to make scocial tools within the enterprise. Knowing that the use of these tools highly depends on what people want to do with them and that the only existing reference is the web 2.0, we get randomly assembled projects.

On its side, the enterprise is afraid of giving up control and don’t want people to mistake their workspace with a reacreation yard. On his side, the employee doesn’t want to expose himself too much and remains very reserved, all the more so since those tools can only be used for social purposes, since un-redesigned process force people to still use “old” tools.

Hence this edifying conclusion from Tom Davenport :

Perhaps the underlying issue is that collaboration for business purposes is real work. It needs to be managed like any other project or process. Having a technology to facilitate the collaboration makes it easier, but it’s still work. Social networks for social purposes, on the other hand, are fun. [...] It’s when we don’t have a clear understanding of what’s work, and what’s fun, that we get into trouble.

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