http://www.richardfiling.com.au Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:36:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2008/08/09/fast-forward-us-state-dept-blogs-and-wikis/ From Jens Meiert Excerpt: Website maintenance and quality assurance mean the backbone of high quality offers of information, and they represent the difference between an amateurish or professional approach to web design and development. Consequently, guidelines for quality web design define maintenance and quality assurance as important process ingredients which have ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2008/06/25/10-measures-for-continuous-website-maintenance/ 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 ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2008/04/24/twitter-in-the-enterprise-evan-williams-story-on-inc/ This is welcome news from Milissa Tarquini at Boxes and Arrows. Excerpt: Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice. Read the full article here http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2008/04/01/blasting-the-myth-of-the-fold-boxes-and-arrows/ A little off topic but such a great post that I can't help pass it on .... Kevin Kelly's 'Better than Free' posting is right on the money. Here's an excerpt: From my study of the network economy I see roughly eight categories of intangible value that we buy when we ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2008/03/19/when-copies-are-free-you-need-to-sell-things-which-can-not-be-copied/ Excerpt: ... But the pain is not just a MySpace problem. It seems to be an industry-wide issue. The total audience of U.S. social networks seems to be stuck at a low-to-mid-single digit growth rate, while the engagment metrics are falling for just about everyone. Time spent on Bebo.com has been ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2008/02/01/social-networking-sites-see-slow-down/ Google recently started to include a set of links below some results to pages within the site. These new links are called Sitelinks. Google displays Sitelinks if a web site is an authority site for the search term.  Google Webmaster Help Centre http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2008/01/17/googles-new-sitelinks/ From McKinsey Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value: companies create real wealth when they combine technology with new ways of doing business. Through our work and research, we have identified eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years. These trends fall ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2007/12/20/eight-business-technology-trends-to-watch/ Looks like a plan ... 1. Make governance an enabler. The reason why most large organizations are slow to adopt Enterprise 2.0 tools is that senior executives are uncertain about the implications, and as a result cautious or worse. Governance needs to be in place to allay those fears, without stifling the ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2007/12/04/6-lessons-for-enterprise-20-success-ross-dawson/ From Steve Eisner's The Social Life blog (ageing unfortunately): Except: There are two remaining solutions to the tag mess, assuming you’re sticking with standard methods of tag browsing: 1) re-tagging content later based on observed usage, and 2) tag equivalence (or at least tag migration.) #1 isn’t going to happen, so let’s ... http://www.richardfiling.com.au/2007/12/03/cleaning-up-tagging-for-the-enterprise/