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Entries in Standards (13)
There's Nothing Wrong with the Social Networking Industry that Some Honest (Cost) Information Won't Fix
Jeremiah Owyang’s LiveBlog: What’s Wrong with the White Label Social Networking Industry?, especially if you read the comments, delivers a good snapshot of the gaps that still exist between product evangelism and the realities of implementing specialized online social networks.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Standards, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis, Social Media, Adoption, Strategy, Social Network Portability, Software, DataPortability
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In Health Emergencies, One Knowledge Management System Cannot Rule Them All
I received an email commenting on Social Networking and Elsevier’s “Grand Challenge” for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences. I had suggested that networked access to published health science authors would be useful in emergency situations where there is the need for rapid access to high quality health information from many different sources.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Social Networking, Standards, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Tagging, Associations, Peer Review, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, Social Network Portability, DataPortability
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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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Personal Data Portability: What Happened to End Users?
I’ve made some attempt to keep up with public discussions of DataPortability.org. I’ve had a suspicion that the project is experiencing the growing pains that technology industry standards groups sometimes experience when there is no single strong and deep-pocketed voice willing to weigh in, knock heads, and force progress along a single path.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Collaboration, Social Networking, Standards, Social Network Portability, OpenSocial, Definitions, Software, DataPortability
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Social Data Portability, Privacy, and DRM
When Bob Weber published his post-CES DRM 3.0 Has Arrived he made the point that, while DRM for music may be dying, the entertainment industry’s interest in Digital Rights Management is still quite strong. This got me to wondering whether this “next generation DRM” might have some relevance to current interest in social network portability.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Industry Analysis, Social Networking, Standards, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, OpenSocial
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Ten Realities of Managing and Using Technology to Generate Business Value
Years of managing, studying, developing, consulting on, and using information technology have taught me about the realities of using technology for business advantage. Here are ten of these realities:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Best Practices, Standards, Business Models, Cost Analysis, Technology, Market Research, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Lists
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More Thoughts on the Social Networking "Make Versus Buy" Decision
In Should You Make or Buy Your Social Network? I wrote about some of the technology-related decisions that are needed when an organization adopts online social networking.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Standards, Social Media, Fatigue, Facebook, Adoption, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Social Network Portability, OpenSocial
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More Thoughts on Developing a Social Network "Portable Relationship Map" Standard
A couple of days ago I posted Do We Need “Portable Relationship Maps” for Social Networks? There I expressed some skepticism about the feasibility of developing a standard for mapping social and professional relationships, over and above basic personal description or identity data, that could be portable between social networking systems.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Standards, Identity, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, Definitions
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Do We Need "Portable Relationship Maps" for Social Networks?
In Yet another reason why we need a single, trusted, and protected identity system Jeremiah Owyang voices the common complaint about social networks. At one point he writes:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Standards, Social Media, Identity, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, Definitions
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Who Are You and Why Are You Calling Me That?
Communities. Connections. Contacts. Families. Fans. Favorites. Followers. Friends. Groups. Neighbors. As you jump from one online "social" group to another, these are the categories you need to juggle.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Social Networking, Standards, Security, Social Media
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