Richard Filing

At Digital Inspiration, Amit Agarwal  highlights the risk of bubble entrepreneurship in this update to the web 2.0 logo map.

Read the complete post here

From the IT@Intel Blog, Laurie Buczek looks at why Intel is investing in Social Computing.

1. Employees Want to Put a Face to a Name
2. Too much time is lost to find people & information to do your job
3. Getting work done effectively in globally dispersed teams is challenging
4. New hires want to have a way to integrate into Intel faster
5. Restructuring and employee redeployment impacts Organizational Health
6. We reinvent the wheel over and over again
7. We learn more via on the job training, then we do in a classroom
8. We need to deliver radical innovation in a mature company
9. When the mature workforce starts to retire, they carry knowledge out the door

Read the full post here. Organizational stovepipes get in the way of ideas.  Social tools can unleash those ideas.

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

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.

1. Activity Streams
2. Forrester’s $4.6 Billion Forecast
3. Oracle Beehive
4. AIIM/McKinsey Surveys
5. Facebook Co-Founder Leaves to Start an Enterprise 2.0 Company
6. Microblogging Enters the Enterprise
7. Gartner Narrows its Criteria for Social Software
8. Enterprise RSS Fails to Take Off
9. IBM and Intel Issue Employee Social Media Guidelines
10. The Recession…  or the GFC as we call it!

Read them in full here (it is worth the click).

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

Linkagogo has always been my favourite online bookmark manager. I’ve loved using it since April 2004 when I listed fileforum as my first URL. Its also been one of the few web services that I’ve subscribed to with real US $$$.

All of a sudden, 883 bookmarks later, it doesn’t quite do the job any more….  and the reason is my 2 month old iPhone (and failing eyesight). Frankly if a web property, particularly a web service, hasn’t got a good mobile optimised structure and view option then I can’t use it half the time I’m on the web… and I’m not alone.

Linkagogo has got a mobile view but the font size is smaller than the regular site and my log in/password combination doesn’t work.  Time to get serious about mobile browsing - stay tuned….

That didn’t take long - 15 minutes later - Thank you iWPhone Wordpress Plugin !

I subscribe to Fast Forward’s RSS feed and here’s another good reason why - it originates from a NY Times article - If the US State Department Can Use Wikis and Blogs Effectively, So Can Your Organization ?
Excerpt: I came across a recent NY Times article about the growing use of wikis and blogs within the US State Department, an organization that clearly has interest in controlling its messages AND in understanding better how to use information, knowledge and brainpower to be effective. Read in full here

Great story in INC Mag’s March issue about Blogger.com and Twitter founder Evan Williams
Excerpt: Eventually, Williams sends me an apologetic text message–we resolve to push back the meeting slightly–and then he does something else: He uses Twitter to send a text message to, oh, a few thousand people: “Late for my first meeting of the year and in need of a shave.”
Read the entire story here