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Entries in Blogging (88)
Recommended: Command Line's Podcast Interview about Microblogging with Evan Prodromou
Command Line continues a tradition of intelligent, literate, and thoughtful interviews with his October 1, 2008 interview with Evan Prodromou of Control Yourself. The interview provides insight into the related topics of open source software commercialization, and the possible “federated” nature of post-Twitter micro-blogging.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Business Models, Twitter, DataPortability, Community, Microblogging, Open Source
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Google Gadget Tracks Relative Frequency of Survey Text Responses
Readers of this blog may have noticed that I have posted a link to a brief (one-minute) questionnaire survey; the survey link appears near the top of the left hand column of this page.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Google, Tag Clouds, Metrics, Surveys
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A Wordle Analysis of Jeremiah Owyang's "I'm A PC" Blog Comments
In How Microsoft Can Win The PC/Mac Campaign my friend Jeremiah Owyang asked for comments about the new Microsoft “I’m a PC” advertising campaign.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Advertising, Semantic Web, Wordle
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U.S. Army Field Manual Embraces Knowledge Management and Collaboration
The Knowledge Management Section of the U.S. Army’s Field Manual FM 6-01.1 is a classic example of the formal structure and organization one can apply to just about any organizational process that requires management.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Best Practices, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Social Media, Content Management, Knowledge Transfer
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William Patry Says Goodbye to His Personal Copyright Blog
Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Blogging, Corruption
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First Steps: Establishing a Professional Presence on the Web
A friend, a professional engineer, asked me for tips on establishing a “web presence.” This is what I wrote:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Google, Linkedin, Social Networking, Publishing, RSS, Advertising, News, Tagging, Social Media, Facebook, Presence, MindMeister, MySpace, How To
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Rich Maltzman, PMP, Needs Your Help
In New Kids on the Blog, professional project manager Rich Maltzman asks the following:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Project Management, R&D Management
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What Comes After Web Sites and Online Social Networks?
Today we use the web in many ways. Traditional web sites — “places we go” on the web to do things — still exist. But increasingly, web based transactions also depend on the nature of our online relationships with other people.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Google, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Standards, Tagging, Facebook, Twitter, Identity, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, OpenSocial, Semantic Web, DataPortability, Internet
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How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Innovation, RSS, Cost Analysis, Tagging, Metrics, Email, Adoption, PowerPoint, Knowledge Transfer
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Howlett Makes Some Good Points About Enterprise Web 2.0 Adoption
Dennis Howlett’s The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media, once you get past the hyperbole of the title and ZDNet’s antiquated requirement to register in order to leave comments, makes some good points.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Blogging, Governance, Web 2.0, Project Management, Social Networking, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Adoption
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