Big Ideas for getting all that work done. Connectbeam Offers New Social Networking Application Integration Possibilities by Bill Ives April 28, 2008 at 8:07 am · Filed under Reviews Recently, I had a chance to catch up with Puneet Gupta, CEO of Connectbeam . As the post title suggests they believe that business networking begins around the sharing of ideas and information so they tightly integrated social bookmarking into their social networking platform. About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter UPCOMING WEBINAR: No Time, No Budget, Fewer People?

Post-Publication Collaboration » Chaos in Collaboration: Integrating Collaboration Tools (Part 4 of 5) This is Part 4 of the Chaos in Collaboration series. Now that we have talked about the concept of collaboration and the changing locus of collaboration, lets address how to integrate collaboration tools into your current environment. There are two broad approaches: Michael Sampson Improving the Performance of Distributed Teams Navigation Home Resources Library Currents (the blog) Seamless Teamwork Our Approach About Michael Sampson Contact Us « Chaos in Collaboration: The Changing Locus of Collaboration (Part 3 of 5) | Main | Open Text Embraces Enterprise 2.0:

Time has moved on since and Facebook has launched Facebook Connect which allows you to integrate Facebook into your own sites allowing authentication, registration, friend connecting, and Facebook feed posting in the context of your application. People have found the integration of Facebook Connect tricky and while great libraries like facebooker handle the API part, actually getting the profile linking and integration flow is harder. Back in June 2007 I wrote a popular tutorial on writing Facebook platform applications with Ruby On Rails . Mashable has a great post

When these wikis were integrated they discovered a number of teams working on similar efforts that were not fully aware of this. At the same time, he would like the tools to better integrate and share content. Samuel has suggested that they make a list of these pages and migrate them to the wiki or other platforms. Here is another in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen , Information Architect at Océ , about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences.

Samuel said he has seen the same migration with blogging, as people have started a blog inside Océ and then added an external facing one. The most active users have integrated micro-messaging into their daily work routine. A few weeks ago I spoke with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ , about their enterprise micro-messaging experiences. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services.

integrating windows explorer with Sharepoint document libraries, so that you can share files via Sharepoint, weaning users off the jungle of badly managed shared folders giving drag and drop ability to reorganise document library folders in Sharepoint (I hope there’s some governance process around this, because free licence to change could turn a structured library into areplica of the shared folder madness we are all trying to escape from) adding an upload feature in Outlook so that instead of attaching documents to emails, you just send a link to the document in Sharepoint, limiting

For publishers it means migrating from a business environment in which their marketing efforts are focused primarily on selling journal subscriptions to intermediary libraries, to one where they have to sell a publishing service directly to authors. Richard Poynder has an interesting interview with the CEO of Open Access publisher Sciyo, Aleksandar Lazinica, where the latter states that “author pay formats” should be abandoned. Here is interesting background to the controversy, read the whole interview here .

/Message « Jay Rosen on Press Migration | Main | Louis Gray on Why Friendfeed Will Fail » January 03, 2009 Nature Or Nurture In Social Networking by Stowe Boyd We suffer from a collective delusion, in Western society, and it comes to the fore this time of year, like clockwork, as we make New Years resolutions. When around people you want to emulate, mirror the small graces of social interaction -- turns of phrase, facial expressions, hand gestures, etc. -- so that you are helping along the integration of norms you admire.

Team workspaces, web / video conferencing, and integration with desktop productivity tools (including Windows Explorer) were the among the list of improvements cited in the press release . Beehive Platform (platform services including security, policy management, integration, object model, admin functions, and interfaces to related Oracle technology) As applications Last week Oracle announced enhancements to its nascent collaboration platform, Beehive. These enhanced capabilities build on announcements Oracle made earlier this year when it announced Beehive On-Demand

Consequently, we will be migrating information off the JotBox into a number of different tools ranging from WordPress, Mediawiki, and Confluence to SharePoint 2007 over the coming months.   It seems inevitable that there will always be a degree of friction between the need for robust IT processes to safeguard customer and business data and to effectively manage IT spending in a global corporation like BT, with the need for technical agility and to support the concept of the perpetual beta in which you try out quickly and cheaply often competing technologies and let users iterate and adopt