Today IBM announced the intent to purchase, Worklight, an Israeli mobile platform company. From their press release: In a move that will help expand the enterprise mobile capabilities it offers to clients, IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight, a privately held Israeli-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms […]
Jonathan Distad
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Gamification of Social Environments
Social adoption internally or externally is always a tough proposition. Organizations to date have had a very uphill battle. So what have software developers and product managers done? They have taken what has been historically very popular with users – gamification – and applied that to the web. Back in ‘the days’ it was loyalty […]
Successful Failure: A Bonobos case study
Its supposed to be THE day of the year for online retailers: Cyber Monday. For online commerce companies, you plan for increased capacity, fail over plans and so forth. But the best laid plans can always go awry. They did for Bonobos – an online mens clothing retailer with fanatical fans for the men’s pants. […]
Social and Search tops COMSCORE
This isn’t really a surprise because our demand for clients wanting more from social and search is expanding. Here is the article from TechCrunch that has some great insights. One can and likely should take from this that companies should formulate, solidify and socialize their social strategy to key business stakeholders, take your search and […]
Open Government
Yesterday I presented at the MN Government IT Symposium on Open Government – a social business bootcamp. I tried to take what normally would take 3 weeks into 60 minutes. I had a great and very engaged group. I talked about how to take your traditional digital strategy – a one-way conversation: to a social […]
Where Ideas Come from – a visualization
A colleague, Greg Archer and a group of us are working on enterprise innovation. He turned me onto a four-minute video about where ideas come from. I have blogged a bit about this and I think this is a valuable representation of my thoughts around this subject – of which I am fairly passionate about. […]
Test Drive Sametime on your iPhone or iPad
We all know that IBM Sametime now supports iOS devices and now you can test it out for your organization or for your personal pleasure. Thanks to a handy tip from some IBMers you can do it by: Download the i-device app from the iTunes Store Install it on your device Launch the application – […]
What's your street cred?
Identity and access management is a tricky business. You have OAuth, OpenSocial and other products from IBM Tivoli, RSA and so forth that clarify and dismay some users and decision makers. The OAuth and such of the world are great for basic authorization and authentication. But when you have financial, health and other client sensitive […]
What’s your street cred?
Identity and access management is a tricky business. You have OAuth, OpenSocial and other products from IBM Tivoli, RSA and so forth that clarify and dismay some users and decision makers. The OAuth and such of the world are great for basic authorization and authentication. But when you have financial, health and other client sensitive […]
Connections Administration Toolkit
IBM Connections has consistently grown with the market place but similarly with people who look at Sametime 8.5.x with some weariness they look at Connections as an administration nightmare. It can be if you are not familiar with Websphere Application Server (WAS) and some command line trickery. That has been solved by the TimeToAct group. […]
Labor Law and Social Business
The National Labor Relations Board recently released findings of 14 cases in the use of social media for discipline and/or discharge of employees and it was a bit of a wake up for me. To save you the raw-excitement of reading government reports I decided to summarize what has been detailed along with some recommendations. […]
IBM Portal Mobile Experience now available
IBM just released the Mobile Portal Experience code to the Greenhouse product catalog. This is great because as IBM puts it, “mobile is exploding” and nearly everyone wants to extend their portals to the mobile devices. This release supports the major players supporting Webkit. Here is a snippet from the product description: The Portal Mobile […]