WorkLight is a secure and scalable server software product that creates a bridge between the traditional IT environment and numerous consumer-oriented Web 2.0 services and technologies. On the one hand, WorkLight connects to enterprise applications, data sources and security infrastructure. On the other hand, it interacts with a wide set of familiar Web 2.0 services and protocols, such as RSS, Ajax-based gadgets and widgets, personalized homepages, instant messaging, mobile devices such as iPhones and Blackberry, and tagging and bookmarking services.
Das Syndication-Format RSS gilt schon länger als interessanter Kandidat für die Informationsverteilung in Unternehmen. Einschlägige Lösungen sollen dem Multitalent zum Durchbruch verhelfen.
Twitter--the messaging service that lets you send instant, short updates to people around the world--is fast becoming a mainstream communication tool. Hundreds of brands and thousands of companies use it to connect with customers and co-workers, and new micro-messaging services are springing up every week to meet specific corporate needs.
In February 2008, Janssen-Cilag Australia & New Zealand launched an internal microblogging platform called Jitter. Combined with our intranet's people search capabilities, this formed an interesting enterprise hybrid of Facebook & Twitter style capabilities. This People Search with Jitter solution received Highly Commended in the 2008 Intranet Innovation Awards.
Baseline takes a close look at the origins of the Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME)--an enterprise social networking and microblogging collaboration application initially-based on SAP technology.
One of the lessons we learned from Web 1.0 (and the subsequent bubble) was the fact that startups that create technologies in search of a problem fail, even when VCs are stupid enough to throw wads of cash at them. This time around, most companies don’t get funded unless they are solving a business problem or at least offering up a technology that can enhance existing business processes. To that end, here are a few ways companies can tap into the power of microblogging:
Auf der KnowTech2008 habe ich aus unserem Projekt Lernet 2.0 berichtet. Es ging mir dabei weniger darum, die Services, die wir für die Lernet-Community entwickeln und bereitstellen, vorzustellen. Es ging mir dort darum, die Möglichkeiten für den Einsatz von Web 2.0 Tools in der täglichen unternehmensinternen als auch –übergreifenden Projektarbeit aufzuzeigen. Wir verwenden im Projektteam Anwendungen fürs Projektmanagement, für die Releaseplanung, für das Anforderungsmanagement, für die Kommunikation, für die Zusammenarbeit und dabei nutzen wir Web 2.0 Services.
The agility of organizations has become the critical success factor for competitiveness in a world characterized by an accelerating rate of change. Agility requires that companies and their employees together and mutually dependently learn and develop their competencies efficiently in order to improve productivity of knowledge work. Failures of organisation-driven approaches to technology-enhanced learning and the success of community-driven approaches in the spirit of Web 2.0 have shown that for that agility we need to leverage the intrinsic motivation of employees to engage in collaborative learning activities, and combine it with a new form of organisational guidance. For that purpose, MATURE conceives individual learning processes to be interlinked (the output of a learning process is input to others) in a knowledge-maturing process in which knowledge changes in nature. This knowledge can take the form of classical content in varying degrees of maturity, but also involves tasks & processes or semantic structures. The goal of MATURE is to understand this maturing process better, based on empirical studies, and to build tools and services to reduce maturing barriers.
Many companies have begun using Twitter, the microblogging service, to send people brief messages and communicate with customers about new products or how to improve their services.
D. Zhao, and M. Rosson. Workshop on Social Networking in Organizations, November 9, 2008, San Diego, (2008)File: http://research.ihost.com/cscw08-socialnetworkinginorgs/papers/zhao_cscw08_workshop.pdf.