Posts Tagged ‘social software’

Sean Newby is a leading Senior Technical Architect at Perficient and periodically creates “Perficient Pointer” technical tutorials on the Perficient channel on YouTube.  His latest is a 4 part series on installing the trial version of WebSphere Portal 7 on a CentOS virtual machine. If you have trouble viewing the embeded video below, you can […]

Wow, it has been crazy busy here at Perficient lately.  That’s good for us, but bad for getting blog posts out in a timely fashion.  I came across SharePoint: Is It Worth Using as a Collaboration Tool? posted by Joe Shepley (@joesphepley) at CMS Wire on March 29, 2011.  In that article, Mr. Shepley argues […]

Sharon Bellamy over on the Connections Blog noted some key enhancements coming in the next release of IBM’s social software product, Connections.  Key but not from a feature standpoint is the rebranding of Lotus Connections to IBM Connections. New capabilities Moderating community content Community owners are provided with new capabilities for the moderation of a […]

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

Via LinkedIn from Adam Ginsburg, IBM Product Manager is a YouTube video showing how to create a simple status update app on your portal. The status update would query and write to Lotus Connections, Twitter, and Facebook.  You gotta love the open API that lets you do this. I also love the way they use […]

Just read this illuminating post from a former esteemed colleague. It coincided well with my attempt just a few hours ago to find the pages that I’ve “liked” on Facebook. I wanted to see if I had remembered to like a company page to get into their free iPad2 drawing. I have declared to my […]

Denise Hatzidakis at Premier, Don Lewis at BCBSMN, Jonathan Distad, and myself spoke briefly on strategies for enable social business.  The presentation is available for your viewing pleasure: If you are intersted in follow on conversation or want to post your own two bits, we created a community at Greenhouse.

It’s no longer about intranets but social intranets. Social Text, along with Forrester and AHA have a webinar about their view on it. Given the number of companies who have asked me, “Can I make social software become my intranet?”   My typical answer is, “Depends”  It depends on what you want to do and […]

I found this article by Joe Shepley at CMSWire interesting both in how applicable the resolutions are to many who aren’t using Sharepoint but instead use WebSphere Portal, Oracle WebCenter, Liferay, JBoss Enterprise Portal etc.  I also like some of Joe Shepley’s more in depth discussion on where Sharepoint works compared to ECM or Social […]

So I’ve seen a lot of people change up how they use these two terms.  In my minds, they are very different although the base technologies used as people going about networking and working the social media may have a huge overlap. social media: the use of tools like twitter, facebook, blogs, etc to both […]

Alinean, an ROI and TCO research firm, just completed a study on which industries and companies were the most popular in social media and why.  Tom Pisello blogs about it. The findings highlight distinct differences in popularity based on company practices and customer profiles, with many companies and industries displaying an enormous leveraging of social […]