August, 2008

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Design for Emotion and Flow

ChiefTech

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. That information could be anything; a company’s product list, pictures of your vacation, or an instant message from a friend. At this moment, there’s more information available to you than at any other time in history. All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges. “What information consumes is rather obvious; it consumes the attention of its recipients … a

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Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos | ZDNet

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TalkBizNow - will it fly?

Information Matters

I Read in the FT yesterday about this new British social networking site for the business community. Initial comments and reviews from the FT and others are mixed with a feeling that they may be a bit late to the party and that LinkedIn and Xing are going to be hard to beat. Gaining critical mass of the right types of people is key. According to the FT, the company will be targetting the top 200 “super networkers&# from other sites who have more than 500 contacts and trying to entice th

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Ode to the bug that almost was

Scary Beasts Security

This post is a tribute to the hundreds of bugs that never quite were serious, and the emotional roller coaster ride on which they take researchers. Some brief background. The skill in finding serious bugs these days isn't in being a demon code auditor or a furious fuzzer; there are thousands of these. The skill lies instead in finding a piece of software, or a piece of functionality, that has the curious mix of being important yet not having seen much scrutiny.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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People Finder: Searching Without Logic?

ChiefTech

One of the most frequent tasks on many intranets is finding people within the company. Providing an effective way to search people is thus a key goal in designing intranets. This goal becomes even more important for an organization like Emirates, a leading international airline, which has over 35,000 employees with over 140 nationalities and where more people are likely to use this feature more frequently.

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Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools | ZDNet

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Your New Excuse to Get an Xbox

ChiefTech

Games are fun, addictive, beautiful, and immersive. Websites, for the most part, are not. Take a moment and think about what video games look like, what they sound like, the way you can move on the screen, what “you&# can be. Think of how you feel when you play and who you play with. Consider the launch of Halo 3 on Xbox 360, with unprecedented graphics, sound, and interactivity that Time.com called “refined to the point where it delivers only pure unadulterated gaming bliss.&# Peopl

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BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook | ZDNet

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The Perils of Showboating | ZDNet

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The Future of the Web | ZDNet

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'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment | ZDNet

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Andrew Hinton

ChiefTech

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As Event Coordinator for IDEA , I fill a variety of roles, including the Interviewer of IDEA Presenters (which I proudly share with Liz Danzico). This is the second interview in the series, and this time I pulled the name of Andrew Hinton, Lead Information Architect at Vanguard, from the virtual hat.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Bill DeRouchey

ChiefTech

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As Event Coordinator for IDEA , I fill a variety of roles, including the Interviewer of IDEA Presenters (which I proudly share with Liz Danzico). For this interview, I was fortunate to draw Bill DeRouchey’s name. If his name is not familiar to you, some of his work should be.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp - 23 September 2008, Sydney

ChiefTech

Stephen Collins is co-delivering (with Hinchcliffe and Company’s, Jeff Kelly) the first ever Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp in the Southern Hemisphere at Web Directions South : " Web 2.0 Bootcamp leads you through a deep exploration of the latest ideas, business models, trends, and techniques behind Web 2.0 with a special emphasis on proven, actionable methods for creating new online products and services – or transforming existing ones – using a Web 2.0 model.

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SNA study of Wikipatterns.com

ChiefTech

Laurie Lock Lee from Optimice has published the results of a social network analysis (SNA) study of the Wikipatterns community (pdf). Laurie used SNA to examine the value of participation, health and value of new relationships of this particular community, using a combination of a survey and " wiki mining " to gather data. A couple of interesting results in relation to the value a wiki brings: " Looking at the percentage differentials, we can see that those that took on the more a

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The value of social networking, now just business as usual

ChiefTech

Metro Station are a hot band of the moment, but that's not why I mentioned them here. I like this little story from an interview with them about how they formed: So how did all of you guys meet? TC: Uh, me and Mason originally first met because, I knew his little brother, and I just kept hearing, ‘man, I gotta meet Mason,’ and then we got together and hung out, and a few days later, I went to his house and we recorded our first song like that night.

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'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark. | ZDNet

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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My Blogging Manifesto

ChiefTech

Twittering with James Robertson and Alex Manchester , the other day we found ourselves talking about how we define blogging and the differences between plain old content management and blogging. here are some more thoughts on that issue: This is something I've talked about in the past, describing it as the grey area issue between social computing and other traditional information management tools.

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Frog in a SharePoint - is the water boiling yet?

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The other day I posted a link to the summary of a conference presentation, titled " SharePoint can lead to huge chaos " Looking at my stats this morning, I noticed an above average response to this post in terms of hits. Clearly, this issue grabbed the attention of some people and in fact this is the very reason why I posted the link, because I know its an emerging problem.

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Office 2.0: Eating our own dogfood. | ZDNet

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"SharePoint can lead to huge chaos"

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Blogging from NZ's BrightStar Intranet conference, Michael provides a summary of Chandima Kulathilake 's presentation on SharePoint governance. Kulathilake is a Microsoft SharePoint specialist and explains how " SharePoint can lead to huge chaos ": Site proliferation. no plans Server proliferation. people and groups doing their own thing Technology proliferation. many different tools, where do you put things?

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Information security myopia

ChiefTech

My article in the current edition of IDM magazine used examples of traditional information security failures to provide some balance against concerns about Web 2.0 security. In the latest example from the UK a contractor lost an unencrypted memory containing " details about 10,000 prolific offenders as well as names, dates of births and some release date of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales - and 33,000 records from the police national computer.

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ICT is the 5th most important factor in attracting and retaining staff

ChiefTech

During the last year or so I had been working on a number of projects that linked ICT to staff recruitment and retention, so its always good to see other evidence supporting the argument for investing in the information workplace. I noticed that Colliers International's 2008 Office Tenant Survey reports that cutting-edge ICT is the 5th most important factor in attracting and retaining staff.

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The Lean Information Workplace

ChiefTech

You get the impression that many organisations think that good information management is a nice to have, rather than something that can help the bottom line. However, reading The Complete Lean Enterprise again I'm reminded (and encouraged) that information management really is a critical area for improvement. In the introduction, the authors say that organisations are only focused on achieving a 35%-40% productivity gain in their production areas , when in reality they should be aiming for a 400

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Error! This Enterprise upgrade requires Change Management 2.0 is installed

ChiefTech

Kate has shared her slides from the Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals conference and also commented a little on the point about innovation that I also mentioned in my reflection post : " The entire process of adopting enterprise 2.0 is an innovation activity. It is about driving new ways of interacting between people and with new technology.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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The new kid on the vendor-neutral CMS consulting block

ChiefTech

James Robertson from Step Two blogged recently that: " As far as we are aware, we are the only truly vendor-neutral CMS consultants in Australia " Just a reminder (and in the interest of some friendly competition), there is actually a new kid on the block (although we have a heap of experience). IPP Consulting. I've actually recently added a new Information & Knowledge Management page on the IPP Website to explain the areas we work in.

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Reflecting on Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals

ChiefTech

Last week I attended the second day of Key Forum's Enterprise 2.0 for Information Professionals conference and I blogged some short summaries of each presentation. I thought might add some more reflective thoughts on the whole of that day: Neither open source or proprietary tools won out. People are picking the tools that make sense within the context of their strategy, available skill set, functionality and budget - what's right for one is not necessarily right for another.

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IPP looking for Recruitment Consultant with a "smile"

ChiefTech

This is IPP 's first attempt at using social media tools like YouTube to help us stand out from the crowd, but we are also looking at other ways to use video in the recruitment process. Watch IPP's recruitment and contracting manager, Kaitlan Murray , explain why you should come and work for IPP as a recruitment consultant. Read the rest of the ad on Seek.com.au.

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