CMIS – the new Lingua Franca of ECM?
A short while ago, three of the biggest behemoths of content management (namely IBM, Microsoft, and EMC) announced a new standard… one that, if it does indeed become an accepted standard, is supposed do for the content-management world what ODBC and SQL did for the database world.

New BT social media adoption case study
A new BT social media case study has been written by a company called Career Innovation … some of the content will be familiar to those who have read the one I wrote but this one is from a digital generation perspective.

Enabling enterprise collaboration at J&J
This is an approach that has been seen before – many tales of successful collaborative initiatives focus on the “top down, bottom up” approach, while the topic of how to create a “2.0” mindset is all over the collaboration blogosphere. The concepts may be basic, but the details required to achieve each one are more complex.

Seven personal skills for effective collaboration
What’s difficult is to change your practices (read behaviours) to improve your chances of an effective collaboration.

Content value analysis for intranets
I’m not suggesting that IAs become statisticians (although using statistics really give your results some gravitas) but you can’t evaluate every intranet page. Sampling techniques have been used with success in the manufacturing sector for nearly 90 years.

“My sites”: do they work?
I would therefore argue that “my site” functionality implemented today is likely to fail in most organisations. While it may succeed in the future due to cultural or generational changes, this will not change the outcome in the short-term. More importantly, if it fails now, it may not get a second chance when the conditions are more favourable.

Twitter for Business: Four Ways Companies Use Microblogging
Many companies have begun using Twitter, the microblogging service, to send people brief messages and communicate with customers about new products or how to improve their services.

Intranet management? It’s business as usual in BT
BT treats a digital asset (web site, online document, etc) the same as a physical asset (new phone, PC, etc).  Someone requests and justifies the need and their line manager approves/rejects it.

Naming the intranet
When creating or relaunching an intranet, the question of whether to give the site a name often comes up.

Oh, this is actually for the week before last… Sorry, for being not very up to date. But here goes:

• Rezension: Das Ende des Managements (in German)
  Review of the book ‘The Future of Management’ by Gary Hamel

• Grundlegende Studie zur Recherche im Internet – die erfolgreichen Suchstrategien (in German)
  How succesful researches search on the web

• Understanding the new breed of intranet managers
  According to an inter-generational survey of workers, the younger generations of workers are set to dominate the workforce, but have slightly different motivations.

• Enterprise 2.0: The Nature of the Firm
  The break-up of behemoth, vertically integrated enterprises commenced in the 1970′s, got a boost from junk bond financing in the 1980′s, and accelerated in the 1990′s with globalization. Now, late in the 2000′s, Social Media (aka Web 2.0) is adding another gear that will accelerate the fundamental restructuring of the enterprise.

• Site Map Usability
  New user testing of site maps shows that they are still useful as a secondary navigation aide, and that they’re much easier to use than they were during our research 7 years ago.

• 12 ways to use your intranet to save costs
  In an era of corporate belt-tightening, intranets can play a pivotal role in helping organisations cut costs. In a new paper called ’12 ways to use your intranet to cut costs’, IBF presents some pointers and prominent examples for doing this.

You might have discovered that I’m not actually getting around to publish this summaries weekly…

• 5 Effective Wiki Uses and How Companies Benefit From Them
  wikis examples: Project Management, Customer/Client Collaboration, Documentation, Online Community, Policies, FAQ, Guidelines and Best Practices
• Selecting a CMS
  How Step Two goes about when selecting CMS for their clients
• Come out, come out, wherever you are …
  Social media and its impact on Internal Communications
• Search Vendor Pricing Models: Top Techniques for “Right Sizing” the Final Invoice
  Cheat sheet of creative search engine pricing “metrics” …