Dec
23
2008
CIO mag talking about the Forrester research paper - seven keys to choosing and managing a corporate wiki.
1. Pick a Software Delivery Model
2. Keep Track of Who’s Who: Authenticating Users
3. Give IT What They Want
4. Plan for Mistakes
5. Manage (and Follow) Change
6. Plan for Wiki Success
7. Consider Extra Features
“Go to the grumpiest people you have and have them test it,” Yehuda says. “Hear their complaints. It will help you figure out how to provide a wiki that’s helpful and not cumbersome.”
Read the full article here and the Forrester research paper here
Dec
20
2008
Reformed banker Hutch Carpenter has a good take on issues relating to social software use in enterprise environments for the year. I’m not the only one at a loss to comprehend why RSS is still proving such a non-starter - as Hutch points out, it is number 5 on the Google ‘What is…’ search list.
- Activity Streams
- Forrester’s $4.6 Billion Forecast
- Oracle Beehive
- AIIM/McKinsey Surveys
- Facebook Co-Founder Leaves to Start an Enterprise 2.0 Company
- Microblogging Enters the Enterprise
- Gartner Narrows its Criteria for Social Software
- Enterprise RSS Fails to Take Off
- IBM and Intel Issue Employee Social Media Guidelines
- The Recession… or the GFC as we call it!
Read them in full here (it is worth the click).
Dec
14
2008
Choosing a key notetaking application is no small matter for an obsessive like me. For a long time I used Texnotes and similar nesting tree based solutions.
I tried Evernote when it first started out but didn’t like the emphasis on the timeline navigation. Recently I returned on the strength of the updated desktop client and the great reviews the iPhone app kept receiving. Evernote synchronises from any internet connected client and if there’s no connection the update is held in a pending state.
As the number of my imported notes increased, navigation was no problem, the tagging and search filters are very well implemented - I use Evernote every day and highly recommend it.
Read about Evernote desktop and iPhone here
Dec
04
2008
John Gruber in his guidepost to sweet iPhone like UI design gives us a great quote for simplicity and focus:
Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
Keywords: least and polish.
Read the complete post here
Dec
02
2008
Via Russ at Maxdesign a short and sweet window into the minimalist doctype identifier from Dustin Diaz, a Google user interface engineer.
His words: At Google, we have this obsession with byte size. And by byte size, any “lack-therof” the better. Therefore the doctype you will find on most Google webpages while still triggering the browser into “standards mode” is as simple as you see below:
<!doctype html>
It’s only a short post so read it here.
