Assessing Gartner Support for Corporate Web 2.0 Planning

Assessing Gartner Support for Corporate Web 2.0 Planning

Dennis D. McDonald
Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, Gartner, Governance, , , Strategic Planning, Strategy, Web 2.0
Recently Dennis Howlett, another Social Media Collective member, wrote about Gartner and its views on Web 2.0. Since I had an opportunity recently on behalf of a client to do some digging through Gartner’s reports and data and to talk with a number of Gartner’s analysts, I thought I’d share here some of my own observations.

Science, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Publishing, , , Technology, sustainability
John P. Holden, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), President, The Woods Hole Research Center, and Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University, delivered a lecture at the annual meeting of the AAAS on February 15, 2007, titled “Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being.”

Remote Content Storage and Those Mean Ol' Copyright Blues (re: Cablevision DVR Decision)

Dennis D. McDonald
Content Management, Copyright, DRM, Enterprise 2.0, Remote Hosting, Risk Management, SMRM, , Strategy, Web 2.0, Web Office
Ed Felten, in Judge Geeks Out, Says Cablevision DVR Infringes, provides an overviw of how technology played into a recent court decision on a case where Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. was pitted against Cablevisions Systems Corp. (2007 WL 867093). The issue:
The Virtual Future Still Ain't What It Used to Be -- But Will It Be Social?

The Virtual Future Still Ain't What It Used to Be -- But Will It Be Social?

Dennis D. McDonald
Artificial Intelligence, Avatar, , , Virtual Reality
A decade ago many saw Virtual Reality technology as the future for computer based entertainment. Now it has all but disappeared from public use even (though many important applications in industrial and engineering design have evolved). What happened? Why aren't we all using those oversize goggles that used to show up all the time in movies and TV? And what relevance does this have to what might happen with today's rapidly evolving world of social networking?
WIkipedia Revisited (Again)

WIkipedia Revisited (Again)

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Peer Review, Web 2.0, Wiki, Wikipedia
I've witnessed firtshand some of the editorial craziness surrounding Wikipedia. Frankly, I'm tired of the subject. For those who are still awake to this topic and would welcome a wonderfully long and opinionated discussion of the issues swirling around Wikipedia, check out WIkipedia Revisited, by Walt Crawford, in the newsletter Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, Volume 7, Number 3.

McDonald's Rules of Personal Connection Behavior

Dennis D. McDonald
Fatigue, , ,
Members of the Social Media Collective are blogging about Twitter. To see what I mean, go to the Collective’s front page and search for “twitter” or use this Social Media Collective Search Engine I set up using Google’s custom search service. (I’ve already blogged about the topic here.) This Twitter discussion got me to thinking about the decisions we make about connecting with others during the day.

Avoiding the "Web 3.0" Label

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Change, Definitions, Enterprise 2.0, Industry Analysis, ,
I received a request from Donna Vitasovich for a definition of “web 2.0 and web 3.0” that she could quote on her blog. I referred her to my post Using a Blog for a “Web 2.0” Presentation instead of PowerPoint. That post includes a definition of Web 2.0 that distinguishes between “Web 2.0 as Technology Infrastructure” and “Web 2.0 as Communication and Business Process.” Here’s what I wrote:
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