Project Management, Social Media, and Defining "Community"

Project Management, Social Media, and Defining "Community"

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Definitions, Enterprise 2.0, Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, PMandSM, Project Blog Survey, Project Management, , , Web 2.0
As a continuation of our Conversation about Project Management and Social Media, Lee White in his recent post Project Community states the following: The point here is not that Social Media, as discussed in earlier posts, directly drives efficiencies, but that it can create a community of project stakeholders that are passionate about the successful completion of a project.

Speedbumps on the Way to Creating a Blog Based Micro-Community

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Collaboration, DataPortability, , Grazr, PMandSM, , , , Tagging
Lee White and I recently initiated an experiment, described here, that consists of our writing about a specific topic (project management and social media) on our respective blogs. Lee writes a post on his blog, I respond on my blog, then we combine and display the posts and the comments we receive in a single RSS feed.

Personal Data Portability: What Happened to End Users?

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, DataPortability, Definitions, OpenSocial, Privacy, , , Software, Standards
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.
Social Data Portability, Privacy, and DRM

Social Data Portability, Privacy, and DRM

Dennis D. McDonald
Copyright, DRM, Industry Analysis, OpenSocial, Personal Data Ownership, Privacy, , , Standards
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.
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