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Website copyright © 2002-2025 by Dennis D. McDonald. From Alexandria, Virginia I support proposal writing & management, content and business development, market research, and strategic planning. I also practice and support cursive handwriting. My email: ddmcd@ddmcd.com. My bio: here.

Is Innovation Management a Process or a Project?

Nov 21

Nov 21 Is Innovation Management a Process or a Project?

Dennis D. McDonald

Collaboration, Innovation, Project Management, Change Management, Process, Change

I've been thinking about innovation management recently in connection with some consulting projects. The question I've been considering is how to best manage the innovation process that surrounds adopting various social networking and collaboration tools. One can view the adoption of such tools as an innovation.

Nov 18
Nov 18 Open Sources of Competitive National Intelligence are Open for Business

Dennis D. McDonald

Intelligence, Security

Washington Technology has an interesting report called Open-source info may help establish integrated intelligence community that discusses how publicly available information from any source is being mined by the U.S intelligence community for useful information. The article describes a CIA department called the “Open Source Center”:

Nov 17
Nov 17 Presentation: "Using Social Networking & Media to Improve Member Services"

Dennis D. McDonald

Associations, Associations2, Blogging, Customer Communication, Presentations, , , Web 2.0

Here is a draft presentation that addresses some of the ways that social networking and social media can be used by professional membership associations to improve member services:

Nov 16
Nov 16 Using OPML to Exchange Lists of "Experts"

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Expertise Management, RSS, Tagging

EirePreneur has a real interesting use of OPML files and GRAZR -- a personal list of experts that is shareable. Now, I've just gotten through with updating my own feeds-on-web-page so I have some questions about the cumbersome nature of this process, but I like the idea. Check it out; it generates discussion about a variety of interrelated topics including tagging, taxonomy, what is an expert, and sexual discrimination (I kid you not).

Nov 15
Nov 15 My "How to Publish RSS Feeds on a Web Page" is Updated with Google Reader

Dennis D. McDonald

How To, RSS, Tagging

Nov 8
Nov 8 Have You Been "Zuned" Yet?

Dennis D. McDonald

If you have not been following this story, the BBC has a good overview: Microsoft's iPod killer, the soon to be released Zune, uses DRM (digital rights management) technology that is not compatible with Microsoft's own PlayForSure technology.

Nov 6
Nov 6 Google will Sell Print Newspaper Advertising

Dennis D. McDonald

Advertising, Google, Newspapers

According to Saul Hansell in the November 6, 2006 nytimes.com article Newspapers to Test Plan to Sell Ads on Google, Google is initiating a test program with the participation of major U.S. newspapers to sell print advertising in the newspapers via Google's online ad sales network. It may seem odd for Google to be selling print ads, but this program makes a lot of sense for both sides:

Web 2.0 and the Manhattan Project

Nov 5

Nov 5 Web 2.0 and the Manhattan Project

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Collaboration, Energy, Expertise Management, History, Knowledge Management, Project Management, , Web 2.0, Wiki, Bestech23

While listening to a podcast of a recent interview with Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, I was struck by the question, “What if the Manhattan Project had been conducted using the collaborative and social networking tools we now have?”

A Comparison of Blogging and Journal Peer Review

Nov 1

Nov 1 A Comparison of Blogging and Journal Peer Review

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Journals, Peer Review

It's interesting to compare and contrast the rough-and-tumble publishing experience that is the blogosphere with the formalized system of peer review that has existed with scholarly journals for many years.

Oct 22
Oct 22 Thoughts on the Real Significance of the Edelman Wal-Mart Fiasco

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Ethics, Industry Analysis

The Edelman public relations company, it was revealed recently, has been supporting the publishing of blogs masquerading as private efforts when, in fact, the blogs were actually developed to promote the commercial interests of Wal-Mart.

Oct 20
Oct 20 Peer to Patent Project Documents Published

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Collaboration, IBM, Patents

The Peer to Patent Project has published a series of technical documents that describe requirements for the test system that is under development to expand "public participation" in the patent prior art research. Chief among these documents is the Use Case Model. This describes a series of actions that need to be supported by the new system.

Oct 18
Oct 18 Lotus Notes and the Importance of Not Ruling Out Entrenched Platforms

Dennis D. McDonald

Enterprise 2.0, IBM, Industry Analysis, Web 2.0

One of the more interesting blog comment series I've read recently is the ongoing discussion about Lotus Notes over at Rod Boothby's Innovation Creators blog. A couple of weeks ago Rod posted Lotus Notes - The Asbestos of Enterprise IT. In it he lambasted Lotus Notes' usability, among other things. This has led to some back and forth - and mudslinging - that when read in the right light tells us a lot about the advantages entrenched platforms have in large corporations when they compete with up-and-coming Web 2.0 "newcomers."

Oct 17
Oct 17 How Infrastructure and Cost Impact Technology Adoption Rates

Dennis D. McDonald

Collaboration, Convergence, Cost Analysis, Enterprise 2.0, Mobile Tech, , Web 2.0

Mike Stopforth called me from South Africa last week to chat about Web 2.0 in the enterprise. We talked about a lot of things. One topic that piqued my interest was how different technologies are adopted at different rates in different cultures.

Oct 11
Oct 11 Writely Becomes Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Dennis D. McDonald

Collaboration, Google, Web Office

I learned yesterday that last night a Writely “planned outage” was planned so I rushed to make necessary modifications before I emailed the sponsor tha a new version was available for his inspection. I need not have worried. The planned time, midnight Eastern time, came and went without a hiccup. One moment I was using Writely. The next moment I was using “Google Docs & Spreadsheets” and Writely was no more.

Oct 7
Oct 7 Evolving Social Bookmarking Tools for the Corporate Markets

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Bookmarks, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Expertise Management, Knowledge Management, Personal Data Management, , Tagging, Web 2.0, Web Office

Luis Suarez recently blogged and podcasted about social bookmarking services. He highly recommends BLINKLIST, a service that I have not used. I have been using RAWSUGAR, COGENZ, and CONNECTBEAM, so I also have been forming some personal opinions about social bookmarking.