Facebook as a Corporate Portal Platform? There are some definite limitations to Facebook as a portal. The inconsistent behavior and security profiles of different Facebook applications will be familiar to any portal developer struggling with third-party portlets or Web Parts. Facebook doesn’t have real document management — although arguably you wouldn’t want it seated there anyway — and Alfresco by Paula Thornton December 20, 2007 at 8:51 pm · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 , Facebook , Social Networking Respected colleague, Tony Byrne (editor of CMS Watch, which often does deep industry reports) took an interesting look at Facebook in his piece, Is Facebook in the Enterprise an Oxymoron? Since Tony is one my top respected resource for all-things-content, I know he is not one to take this subject lightly.

We use OpenText for our CoPs (and for Document Management for that matter), and for the past 3 months have been piloting their new Social Media product (in the realm of Jive, Lotus Connections, SocialText). Our position is that our CoPs tool is more long term, stable, portal like, learning and sharing (looks like a website, with lots of permissions control and unlimited wikis, blogs and forums). Nancy White has a post called Communities, networks and what sits in between , which links to a video with herself and the effervescent Robin Good …I am intrigued by the sweet spot between networks and communities.

Our CoPs are more portal like with permissions and the rest, they are not one click set-up, they need a bit of upfront design. - We still need this official and sophisticated tool for support management, but CoPs as a support tool are definitely cutting into their lunch. These groups have a section in our corporate Document Management System (DMS)…it’s basically a set of folders. Not long ago I posted about how our Communities of Practice (CoP) are hitting a sweetspot …bottom-up and grass roots tools that provide more of a sense of place and better coordination over email, and are more enabling than the Intranet.

IBM, for its part, has more aggressively shown willingness to move forward with Lotus Connections, which right now has a better design than the social software features in SharePoint, which is largely still a document management system. Jive Software (Cisco, EMC/Documentum; Oracle - hosted play helps Cisco/WebEx Connect, EMC - social platform compliments its content management infrastructure, Oracle - social network/community destination site compliments its portal-centric message and also gives Oracle a SaaS play) I thought this was an interesting clip from a CIO magazine article...

have left this blog post on my blog, simply because I should. Disclaimer: I’m not part of product management, development, or marketing (I am well connected to those groovy folks, though, who have approved this message). The social task management bit, however, is all about collaboration. Find the knowledge “crowds” that are locked up and hidden away Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. I

Reflections on Knowledge Management and Organizational Innovation A professonal diary of learning and reflection on knowledge management and what Im calling organizational innovation (differentiated from product/service innovation). Friday, December 05, 2008 Serendipitious Information Discovery I was reading a John Tropeas Library Clips blog entry about My recent article on KM Review - When Two Worlds Collide and noticed that he had used a service called Scribd to put a copy of the actual KMReview article directly inline with the blog post. to corporate

2 hours ago Mashable! Bing Ads Warn About Online Scams 2 hours ago Calvin and Hobbes (Unofficial) Calvin and Hobbes for September 30, 2009 3 hours ago Portals and KM Who Will Win: TV Sets or Computers? JOURNAL Director of Cloud & Virtualization at Vertica to Speak at 1st GovIT Expo 3 days ago HBR IdeaCast Harvard Business IdeaCast 164: How to Cut Costs -- Strategically 4 days ago Jim Lyons Observations Observations: Document Management with Twitter? infoarch About my experiencesas an information architect Monday, September 21, 2009 Companies as Communities Professor Henry Mintzberg has an interesting article in the HBR of July-August 2009 titled: Rebuilding Companies as Communities . (Isnt

have left this blog post on my blog, simply because I should. Disclaimer: I’m not part of product management, development, or marketing (I am well connected to those groovy folks, though, who have approved this message). The social task management bit, however, is all about collaboration. Find the knowledge “crowds” that are locked up and hidden away Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. I

Part of the debate is continuing with a bit of back and forth between Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport . Categories : Collaboration , Enterprise Blogs & Wikis Tags : Enterprise 2.0 , management , social software , wiki No TrackBacks TrackBack URL: [link] 2 Comments | Leave a comment

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