Enterprise MashUps: New Book, New Highlights
10. Januar 2009
Enterprise Mashups: New Book Highlights the Patterns
Although mashups started out in the consumer space, their success makes a migration into corporate IT environments inevitable. Firms exploring this new software development model may struggle at first to understand the importance of mashups from a corporate perspective. In the upcoming book, Mashup Patterns, author Michael Ogrinz provides a collection of use-case driven patterns intended to explain the value of enterprise mashups to both technical and non-technical readers
Social Software / Enterprise 2.0
19. Januar 2008
Warum ist es so schwierig, Unternehmen für den Einsatz von Social Software zu gewinnen? Und warum wollen die selben Unternehmen einfach nicht sehen, wie das Internet nach und nach immer mehr Lebensbereiche unterwandert und verändert?Zu der schon langen Liste möglicher Erklärungen hat jüngst Rob Paterson (im Fast Forward Blog) noch eine interessante Variante hinzugefügt:Seiner Auffassung nach ist das Web 2.0 so etwas wie ein (geografischer) Raum, den es zu entdecken und erobern gilt und weniger eine Sammlung von Werkzeugen, die man nur einfach ergreift und nutzt.Die Idee des “Raums” vergleicht er mit den Vereinigten Staaten nach dem Bürgerkrieg und Europa vor den Weltkriegen: So kamen in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts viele Europäer als Einwanderer nach Amerika, die zuhause für sich keine Chance sahen und ein “neues, besseres Leben” suchten.
Das Web 2.0 wird demzufolge auch fast nur von “Einwanderern” genutzt, die für sich einen neuen Wirtschafts- und (virtuellen) Lebensraum suchen.
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Henry Jenkins, Digital Learning
13. Januar 2008
Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explores new frameworks and models for media literacy. Sehr gutes Paper, hier ein kurzer Auszug:A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement,strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations,and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter,and feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created).Forms of participatory culture include
Affiliations— memberships,formal and informal,in online communities centered around various forms of media,such as Friendster,Facebook,message boards, metagaming,game clans,or MySpace).
Expressions— producing new creative forms,such as digital sampling,skinning and modding,fan videomaking,fan fiction writing,zines,mash-ups).
Collaborative Problem-solving— working together in teams,formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (such as through Wikipedia,alternative reality gaming,spoiling).
Circulations — Shaping the flow of media (such as podcasting,blogging).
Occasional Papers Inline Content Listing By Folder - Digital Learning
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Social Networking Meets Corporate Learning
8. Januar 2008
Jeanne Meister macht in ihrem Artikel drei Vorschläge, um (gut funktionierende) Networktools in Unternehmen einzuführen:
Podcast Your Stars
Develop a podcast series profiling experts who share their top tips in less than 10 minutes. Model it after Harvard Business Review’s Ideacast, www.hbrideacast.org, a weekly podcast that features breakthrough ideas and commentary from leading thinkers. In fact, HBR Ideacast was recently named a Staff Best Pick of 2006 on iTunes. Ideally, the podcast series you create can be customized to your company’s best practices such as recent new-business wins or product implementations, or even a CEO book club (a monthly interview with your CEO on his/her bedside books). Wouldn’t everyone want to read the books the CEO is reading?
CEO as Blogger
Encourage your CEO to start a blog, if he or she has not done so already. One of the first CEOs to do this is Sun Microsystems’ Jonathan Schwartz. You can check out what he regularly writes about at http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan. Schwartz frequently writes about myriad topics such as why July 27 is Industry Appreciation Day for system administrators to the power behind a great brand. But most important, Schwartz is not afraid to tackle tough issues, such as disappointing earnings or new product misses, on his blog.
Use Wikis for New Ideas on Learning Programs
Finally, consider starting a wiki for new ideas about what learning programs to develop to meet specific business units’ strategic goals. The typical way for CLOs do this is to develop a learning needs assessment, but think about what would happen if you opened up the floodgates of new ideas with a wiki targeted to your business partners. It’s easy to use, and it can happen 24×7 (so there are no more cancellations to that business partner meeting), and you’ll have a running record of all possible ideas for new learning programs around specific business needs.
Remember: This will not take the place of more formal needs assessment processes (although it might someday), but it can jump-start excitement among the workforce, from senior executives to front-line employees, about what learning is doing.
Chief Learning Officer magazine - Social Networking Meets Corporate Learning
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The IT-Flower
3. Januar 2008
Rod Boothby: The IT Flower is like the “Long Tail” except it is designed to help explain developments in enterprise IT.
Web 2.0: Big app on campus
31. Juli 2007
Aus cnet news: “When I was in college, there was this one classmate everyone found especially annoying. Quite the little joiner, she would post opinions of dubious intellectual worth on the class message board just to show that she did the reading and to puff herself up with some tangentially relatedstory.
Condescending Generation X classmates, including me, saw her as uncouth. Apparently, she was simply ahead of her time. Gen X cynicism has given way to millennial self-absorption as a new generation’s lust for celebrity spreads to college classrooms, say educators. Now, universities are hoping to tap into that urge with new technologies to recruit prospective students and entice current students to stretch their intellect.
“A lot of students…like showing off their work. They like being published. They like being on display,” said Barbara Knauff, senior instructional technologist at Dartmouth College. Other educators, echoing Knauff’s comments, see the enticement of notoriety through Web 2.0-style social tools–blogs, wikis and the like–as a way to engage students in their education and maybe even get them to choose one school over another …”
Enterprise 2.0 - die Folien sind frei
30. Juli 2007
Die Enterprise 2.0 Conference hat Wellen geschlagen. Eine Reihe von Mitschnitten und Folien sind jetzt zugänglich. Chapeau auch dem Kollegen Alexander Richter von der Arbeitsgruppe Kooperationssysteme (an der Bundeswehruniversität München), der wie kaum ein zweiter hierzulande darüber berichtete. Kann auch daran liegen, daß sein Arbeitgeber spesenmässig den Trip zu den Natopartnern gesponsert hat. Wäre gut angelegtes Steuergeld … wie auch immer: in Sachen Social Software und Enterprise 2.0 ist sein Blog eine gute deutschsprachige Anlaufstelle.
Gartner: Europäische Unternehmen verschlafen Web 2.0
7. Juli 2007
Laut einer Gartner-Studie verschlafen europäische Unternehmen die neuen Trends im Netz, die unter Web2.0 laufen: “Wie mit einer “Schlummertaste” beim Radiowecker werde das Thema einfach ausgeblendet beziehungsweise auf Wiedervorlage gelegt. Da die Entwicklung jedoch sehr schnell und vor allem auf internationaler Ebene verlaufe, so die Analysten, riskierten es die Konzerne der Alten Welt, in ihren Geschäftsmodellen zurückzufallen.”
Gartner über die vermeintlichen Ursachen: “Verantwortlich für die schleppende Akzeptanz seien laut Gartner verschiedene Faktoren, darunter die Nabelschau der Blogosphäre, die geringe Aktivität der Marketing-Abteilungen von europäischen IT-Anbietern sowie das grundlegende Misstrauen der Presse.” Gleichzeitig aus dem Hause Gartner (8. Juli 2007):” At Symposium ITxpo, we found that senior IT professionals in Europe are surprisingly bullish about the impact of Web 2.0 on mainstream business.”
From The Big Mo - 15 gute Tipps
24. September 2006
15 gute Tipps!
1. Real security comes from growth ( Page xiv ) - To me this is the best statement in the book and it’s right there in the preface.
2. Wanting growth and attaining growth are two different things ( Preface xv ) - Companies usually end up paralyzed by trying to focus on how they’ll grow instead of actually growing.
3. Those who fit in now won’t stand out later ( Page 5 ) - It’s difficult to change once you get into a rhythm of mediocrity.
4. If you name something, you get power over it ( Page 18 ) - Ever try to change a bad nickname ? When a name catches on, it becomes very powerful.
5. Don’t concentrate on making a standard. Once you create the standard, you’ve created a commodity and your customers will seek something like it, but cheaper ( Page 23 ) - *cough* Netscape *cough*
6. Being efficient is not as good as being robust ( Page 52 ) - There’s such a thing as “good enough”. Being flexible is better than trying to squeeze out a few extra performance cycles.
7. You can’t predict the future (Page 55) - I already talked about this.
8. Everything is version .9, waiting for just one more upgrade before it’s done ( Page 86 ) - Releasing something stable, but not complete is better than waiting it’s “perfect”. It will never be perfect.
9. Betting on change is always the safest bet ( Page 91 ) - You can’t constrain change. People have scars from trying to.
10. Creativity is made up of iteration and juxtaposition ( Page 95 ) - Mash things together enough times, and something interesting will happen.
11. Compromise kills. Doing something half-ass is worse than doing nothing ( Page 97 ) - If you don’t have enough information to implement something, ignore it and move on. It’s better than trying to guess. Remember #7.
12. Novelty for the sake of novelty is risky and a recipe for irrelevance ( Page 100 ) - Solve a problem. I’ve written about this again and again
13. The energy isn’t in the idea, it’s in the execution ( Page 101 ) - Everyone wants to sit around and think up cool stuff. Sooner or later, you’re going to have to actually build something.
14. A product is what the customer thinks it is ( Page 131 ) - How many times have you gotten pissed at a user of your software for “using it wrong” ?
15. Don’t let the seeds stop you from enjoying the watermelon ( Page 134 ) - The world is grey. Every solution, product, feature is the result of several trade-offs.
The business environment of informal learning
7. September 2006
learning is not some new option to toy with. Rather, it’s a response to a new world of business, a new contract with workers, a new definition of knowledge, and an incredible philosophy and technological conglomerate known as the internet. Here’s a view from a non-training silo.
“I’m fascinated by Enterprise 2.0. It’s what has kept my life going for the past five years as I’ve learned to get out of the way of a control IT environment and start creating environments that enable people to work collaboratively,” says J.P. Rangaswami, former global CIO at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort in London, in this interview with Optimize magazine …
