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Entries in Network Effects (9)
Is It Too Late to Reverse the Fragmentation of the Web?
One year ago I published Balkanization of the Web - or Just Better Focus? There I expressed concern that the proliferation of specialized search engines — and the indexing to support them — would lead to a more fragmented web. I thought that gaining the benefits of specialization could ultimately reduce the benefits we experience from the nearly universal access to web based contents that we’ve been taking for granted.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Software Islands, Network Effects, Social Media, Search, Adoption, Twitter, Social Network Portability, Semantic Web, DataPortability, Fragmentation
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Best Podcasts I've Heard on Enterprise Adoption of Social Media
The best podcasts I’ve heard recently on enterprise adoption of social media are two interviews with Toby Redshaw of Motorola by Dan Bricklin. One is from March of 2006 and the other from March 2007.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Network Effects, Wiki, Social Media, Content Management, Project Blog Survey
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All Kind Food's Top Ten Posts for 2006
Here they are, All Kind Food’s Top Ten Posts for 2006. Web 2.0, collaboration, and expertise management dominate this chart:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Expertise Management, Network Effects, Enterprise 2.0, Top Ten Posts, Lists
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Mohr on the Newspaper Crisis and the Importance of "Network Effects"
Tom Mohr in Winning Online - a Manifesto provides a sobering view of the challenges newspapers face in adjusting to a Web 2.0 world where online advertising revenue today still accounts for less than 6% of total annual newspaper advertising revenue -- and total advertising revenue is declining.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Industry Analysis, Publishing, Newspapers, Network Effects, Advertising, Demographics
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How Can You Communicate the Corporate Benefits of Enterprise 2.0 Network Effects?
Updated on Monday, August 14, 2006 at 05:31AM by
Dennis D. McDonald
Rod Boothby (or someone using Rod's name) recently stopped by and left the following comment attached to my recent accelerating network effects post:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Network Effects, Enterprise 2.0
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How to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Web 2.0 Network Effects
IBM’s Luis Suarez in 5 Key Steps towards Adopting Web 2.0 within the Enterprise provides a pragmatic and experience-based list of five tips on how to introduce Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Network Effects, How To
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The IT Director in a Large Manufacturing Company Discusses "Baby Boomer Brain Drain"
Last week I interviewed “Ferris” (not his real name) about how his company is handling the pending retirement of senior IT staff. Ferris is the IT Director in a large manufacturing company. Ferris’ company doesn’t have the mix of custom legacy Cobol and Assembler based mainframe systems that Boris the Insurance Company CIO has.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Retirement, Network Effects, Knowledge Transfer
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Bringing Knowledge, Relationships, and Experts Together in the Enterprise
In the first article in this series I commented on the web based evolution of systems for matching up experts (and their expertise) with users based on relationship management and social software technologies. In this article I discuss the implementation of such systems within large organizations
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Network Effects, Enterprise 2.0
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Are DRM and Enterprise Social Networking Compatible?
Are DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems compatible with the current growth in the use of blogging and social networking technologies that actively promote the sharing of information? Maybe not.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Industry Analysis, Blogging, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Network Effects, Enterprise 2.0
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