Posts Tagged ‘Sharing’

We’ve been working with clients on mobile collaboration solutions and the topic of editing Microsoft Office documents always comes come.  I’ve used various tools on my iPad and most I’ve found lacking the ability to use all the features in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  For example, in DocsToGo, I can change fonts, create a bulleted […]

If you haven’t heard yet, IBM and Bunchball have gotten together to develop a gamification system for IBM Connections called Level Up. Gamification has been a hot topic and using it to encourage participation in you new social network deployments makes tremendous sense. To show how Level Up works with Connections, BunchBall put together the […]

This afternoon Carol Rozwell presented a session titled The Social Scenario: Business gets Social.  In this session, she points out the drivers behind social media and described scenario planning as a tool to develop a social strategy. I thought her most interesting points were in  in how to go about setting your strategy for Social […]

Jim Murphy held a standing room only session this morning covering the 6 pitfalls with portals.  I’m curious, was it standing room only because lots of people have encountered pitfalls, or are all these people just starting out with portal and want to avoid these pitfalls?  My guess is that many of these people already […]

Jane McGonigal was our keynote speaker this morning at Gartner’s Portal, Content and Collaboration conference.  Dr. McGonigal recently wrote a book called “Reality is Broken” in which she discusses gaming and its impact on industry. I’ll admit upfront, I’m not much of an online gamer.  Occasionally I play games such as Angry Birds and others, […]

Jim Murphy and Ray Valdes are presenting on the topic of Generation 7 Portals.  Portals have been around since 1998 and have evolved over 7 generations according to Jim.  Gen 7 Portals include the following features, which have been built on the previous generations: Analytics Portal-less Portals Context aware Portal ubiquity Emerging UXP Widgets dominate […]

Gene Phifer spoke about the trends in what Gartner calls the User Experience Platform (UXP).  The big change from last year appears to be a split in the emerging UXP market into Suite vendors and Lean vendors. Gartner sees many vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle expanding more and more into the Suite side […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]