Collaboration 2.0: Wiki & Blog - Latest Articles

Does SharePoint pass the test?

Community Post — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:15:47 -0000

Microsoft SharePoint has claimed to solve team collaboration problems. Here are a few comparisons of a structured implementation of Sharepoint versus simpler wiki solutions.

"We're planning on using SharePoint for formal office documentation and a wiki for more malleable IT documentation--the wiki seems easier to change. I can administer a wiki largely without a manual; for SharePoint I need a book." - Joel on software Discussion Group

"My experience with SharePoint is that it ends up being a fancy shared drive or file dumping ground with not nearly so much extra value as you would get on a Wiki. Most of the implementation I've seen end up having a nicely organized directory structure but are still only glorified file dumping grounds. If the wiki takes off, it turns into a more collaborative space or community white board and I have not seen that emerge on the SharePoint." - Road Warrior Collaboration

Michael Sampson has come up with a slightly different litmus test for SharePoint- a 7 point inspection

He sums up the test in access, location independence, real-time, calendaring, social features, action management, and auto-discovery. Take a look at the 7 Pillars whitepaper to see where SharePoint works and falls short for the enterprise.

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How to record a Skype call

Community Post — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:55:06 -0000

We often need to record conversations and interviews and upload them to Near-Time.
It's easy for you to set this up too. Simply follow these instructions to get started.

1. Visit Skype.com and download for PC or Mac

2. Download Ecamm's call recorder for Mac or http://www.callburner.com/download for PC

3. Call computer to computer on Skype to computer to record

4. Upload the file and insert it into a Near-Time page

5. Enjoy your podcast!

Step 1. www.skype.com

Step 2. Download the call recorder software

Step 3. Start Recording

Step 4. Upload the mp3 file to your Near-Time space

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AltSearchEngines introduces member forum (part of the ReadWriteWeb Network)

Community Post — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:27:09 -0000

Today Near-Time announced a partnership with AltSearchEngines to extend its leading web property with subscription based forums. CEOs of search engine companies, AltSearchEngine readers, and internationally based advisors can participate in private user-driven communities, enabling interaction among peers in the search engine community. Unlike current AltSearchEngine offerings, these new communities require membership access, and focus on high value content and conversation.

As a member of the ReadWriteWeb network, AltSearchEngines publishes a weblog with coverage of nearly every alternative and niche search engine - daily and globally. Their mission is to reveal "the most wonderful search engines you've never seen."

ReadWriteWeb is ranked among the top 20 blogs worldwide according to Technorati. "We hope to become a one-stop shop for those interested in alternative search engines," said Charles Knight,editor of AltSearchEngines. "Currently, visitors to AltSearchEngines can only read our posts, but for 2008, we want to take it to the next level. The goal is to provide search engine CEOs with a secure place where they can communicate and interact with each other. I made a diligent search of the forum products available, and Near-Time was the clear winner," continued Knight.

"The new, extended AltSearchEngines forum brings together two critical components of Near-Time online communities, paid content and collaboration. We're pleased to enable new business models and revenue sources for AltSearchEngines," said Reid Conrad, CEO of Near-Time. Powered by Near-Time, the interactive forums will allow members to further engage in discussion and questions related to alternative search engines.

At launch, two separate forums will leverage Near-Time Premium to charge for varying levels of subscription access. AltSearchEngine forum memberships will begin at $5.99/month for readers - or a special introductory rate of $49 per year and an equally appealing introductory rate of $49/year for Search industry authorship. Forum memberships are available immediately at http://members.altsearchengines.com/join

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E-mail: finally on a need to know basis!

Community Post — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:03:21 -0000

Most of us made a New Year's Resolution this year. Keep the e-mail inbox clean, stay ahead of work, take more vacation, and maybe exercise before 7AM.

We jumped ahead and wanted to make 2008 painless and trouble free by relieving the pains of e-mail alerts and notifications.

E-mail notification from Near-Time now makes it easy for you to know when content in a space has been updated or modified. As a space member, you can have the following email notifications available to you in each space:

Digest - A digest is an email summary of activity within a space. By default, the digest is compiled and sent out each Sunday. A space manager has the option to set the day of the week digests are sent out to members, and can set the frequency to daily instead of weekly.
Alerts - Alerts are emails that summarize new or updated content in a particular section (news (blog), pages (wiki), tasks, files, forums, topics, etc.) Alerts can also be sent when there are updates to individual items.

See more about this update in our public space

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Google Zeitgeist 2007 - Parts Untold

Community Post — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:52:29 -0000

The Google Zeitgeist is out again. 2007 was the year of the iPhone, But enterprise IT departments may not agree . Here are a few other noticeable trends in the Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 realm

We thought blogs and wikis were a big deal, but according to Google Trends , forums continue to hold out in the top spot.

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Digg and delicious are battling at one and two for the social bookmarking reign, but social bookmarking was so 2006.

It looks like there's a new game in town.

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Untangle old comment threads & create a forum

Community Post — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:21:10 -0000

Let's dust off the old peer-to-peer sites of the early web.

You know- the good ole' bulletin boards, forums... p2p

The most active early adopters of Web 2.0 were given a voice with blogs and the other 99% of the web became comfortable with a p2p forum around a profile context.

Modern bulletin boards are built around a post, a profile, or a topic. Forums are back in full swing in the form of comment threads and social networking.

Top 5 reasons forums were re-invented forums for near-time

Maintaining fluid discussions: Sometimes people still try to quote other comments from 8 posts earlier. Make it happen.
Tracking threads: RSS and user dashboards allow you to watch and check the parts unread by you.
Don't do something. Stand there: Interactive communities are created and maintained by users as a whole. You as a blogger, online community manager, or user can sit back and wait to respond when appropriate.
Analyze for a reason: Watch most active contributers for last 30 days, 90 days, and all time.
No more "Bueller...Bueller?": Don't let your comment get lost at the bottom of a thread. Open a new topic in the Forum

Give the new forums a try: visit http://near-time.net/sign_up

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Near-Time joins the EContent 100

Community Post — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:14:51 -0000

This is our first year as part of the EContent 100. We are proud to be selected as one of the best and most innovative for 2007.

“We feel that wikis are taking their rightful place as one of the most easy-to-use collaborative tools in the enterprise, and Near-Time is one of the leaders in this space,” said Michelle Manafy, Editor-In-Chief of EContent.

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Organizing collaboration through mutual self-interest

Community Post — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:12:22 -0000

Could not generate link to image with ID: Social networking sites are often blocked by corporate IT and upper management. What do we have to learn? Are we actually planning our social calendar and losing productivity, or do we need an avenue for internal discovery?

Strengthening social ties

Sociologist Mark S. Grannovetter published a theory in 1973 (The Strength of Weak Ties) exploring phenomena of small-scale interactions that yield important large-scale patterns. In a survey of people that recently changed jobs in the Boston area, he discovered that 55.6% of respondents received the job tip from someone they saw less than twice a month and 27.8% said they saw that person less than once each year. He concluded that, "it is remarkable that people receive crucial information from individuals whose very existence they have forgotten." Hmm. The value of social networking.

Formal Networking for mutual self-interest

- Can employee A share information with employee #_____ informally across the "corporate graph"?

According to the McKinsey Quarterly review of Informal Employee Networks ,

"Professionals who want to work horizontally across an organization currently find themselves forced to search though poorly connected organizational silos for the knowledge and collaborators they need. In many companies these matrix and other hybrid organizations have become dysfunctional. The symptoms include endless meetings, phone calls, and e-mail exchanges, as well as confused accountability for results."

Busting the Silos & Creating the Network

Tools to create the network include all the standard collaborative pieces that we've been talking about for the "Interactive Enterprise." Andrew McAfee offered his suggestions for the leader in each category:

Collective Success

Much has been written about Google's 20% time for all employees. At first glance, this would seem that those employees are distracted from the other work. In practice, Google engineers will spend weekends and time well beyond the 20% of the workweek to develop new products for the company.

As a result, creative engineers and innovators are developing half of Google's new search products out of that 20% time.

Every company, no matter the size, has large numbers of thinking-intensive and creative employees. The winners will be the organizations that enable those groups to create more profits by putting their collective mind power to use.

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Tags: collaboration near-time social networking socialgraph

WROX launches an ASP title in Wiki format

Community Post — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:34:20 -0000

Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 was published almost 8 years ago now, and remains to be one of the best selling web programming titles ever. Partnering with Near-Time, WROX Publishing (a division of Wiley), released the entire contents of the 18 chapter book at http://asp3wiki.wrox.com

Here's what's included in the free online book

All Chapters and Appendices
Updated and verified errata
Standards for newer web browsers

Many books are still readable in the ebook formats. In our opinion, the wiki enhances
the reader experience for the following reasons:

All content is can be searched and bookmarked
Content is separated by recognizable headings and indexed in multiple locations
Related content can be discovered through the navigation controls

Wrox's ASP3wiki is available immediately at http://asp3wiki.wrox.com

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Wikis and widgets have landed

Community Post — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:49:46 -0000

I am excited to inform you of a major Near-Time update that provides integration with widgets and other Web services. This will enable you and your team to create "user generated solutions" on the fly. A widget is a micro-application that you can embed in your Near-Time wiki or weblog.

Enhancements include:

real-time chat from Meebo, Gabbly, and Skype widgets
video and widget aggregators
polls and surveys from SurveyGizmo, Poll Daddy, and Wufoo
maps and mash-ups from Google and Trippermap
news and information from Yahoo! Finance and Forbes

Near-Time will be certifying widget providers to ensure that you and your members have access to best quality widgets. You can submit other widgets by clicking here

How do I find that lost image? The image picker now allows you to search, view, and select a thumbnail of that image before it is inserted to the page. Here is a quick snapshot from one of my wikis.

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Tags: integration widgets wikis

Make the most of Social Media and User-Generated-Content

Community Post — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:55:08 -0000

Is it really 90-9-1?

The 1% Rule is a theoretical internet concept which states that the number of people who create content on the internet represent 1% (or less) of the people actually viewing that content.

(From Wikipedia)

Maybe closer to 50-50?

Forrester came out other metrics in April on how web audiences consume and in

Judging from their survey- I think Web 2.0 participation is the swell of active participation. Active participation includes collectors of RSS feeds, videos, social bookmarks and joiners who use social networking sites.

According to Google’s Search Product Manager:

The average number of searches per unique visitor
done in one day on Google:

7

The average number of pageviews on Facebook or
MySpace per unique visitor:

100 Source: http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/04/forresters_new_.html

Can marketers take advantage of this?

Marketers, Integrated Marketing, Advertising, and PR are all scrambling to figure out how to be involved in the conversation of communities like Facebook and use emerging technologies like blogs and wikis for their overall web-marketing strategy.

A McKinsey QuarterlyGlobal Survey just released a new study on "How companies are marketing online" that provides some insight into how top executives see coming for the Web 2.0 conversation.

What are the emerging technologies marketing departments using?

McKinsey Quarterly’s Global Survey found the following adoption rate in the enterprise:

32 Blogs External blogs are available on the public Internet. Key employees can write about industry trends, product updates, the goings-on at the company, upcoming events and so on. It can be a way to create a dialog with customers, as well as build brand and increase search engine optimization (SEO).

15% Wikis Wikis are websites that allow users to simply create, edit and collaborate on content.

15% Widgets- micro-application that you can embed in your webpage or blog

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Tags: blogs facebook forrester google social media web 2.0 wikis

How to: Make a post delicious

Community Post — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:57:21 -0000

Most bloggers find that if their post has a digg, stumbleupon, or del.icio.us (delicious) tag, the traffic spike runs anywhere from 100% to 5,000% over other posts. Here are some of the ideas I had. It’s just a start.

Be visual. Use images and titles that reflect uniqueness of your idea
Mention the iPhone. Or better yet- demo on it.
Use a whiteboard. SEOMoz and Common Craft have mastered this approach
Link in to other blog posts you’ve done before
Be orignial. Find interesting trends or mash-ups that are useful to your community
Don’t be the first. Just focus on connecting the dots
Use sites like stumbleupon, delicious, newsvine, digg, and reddit because your readers will follow suit

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From CIO Insight- "Collaboration: Superhero in the Cubicle"

Community Post — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:07:24 -0000

Near-Time was mentioned in a CIO Insight article today. This quote sums it up nicely:

As the Internet blossoms into Web 2.0, some workers and managers are discovering new tools to cope with task and data overload: Flexible tools designed for the myriad challenges knowledge workers face, not just for routine tasks. Tools that help better manage and prioritize work, rally the strongest team members for each job and use talent most efficiently. Tools that help deliver work and gather feedback. And perhaps most critical, tools that let only the essential information through the floodgates, in the most useful format.

Thanks to new collaborative tools, these employees have the power to do their jobs in a whole new way—a way that makes the best use of their time and their company’s resources. It’s hard to fault them for feeling a little like superheroes, capes rippling in the wind.

Netscout’s June Nugent is interviewed about the NetScout user group and their use of Near-Time. Read the full article on CIOInsight.com

Far-flung teams prove to be some of the biggest fans of these new tools. Take the folks at NetScout Systems, which makes integrated network performance management solutions. The company, which has some 3,000 enterprise customers around the planet, needed something to help users help themselves.

June Nugent, NetScout’s director of knowledge resources, realized that members of the company’s user group—network managers— didn’t have much free time on their hands. They needed an organized information source that could evolve as fast as their business needs did. But Nugent wanted something that would complement, not replace, its formal service channel.

That led her to Near-Time, a hosted service that can be used to build wikis and blogs, share files, create podcasts and handle RSS feeds. Near-Time’s principals had co-founded Extensibility, an XML solutions provider acquired by Tibco Software in 2002. Near-Time’s plans for corporate users range from $700 to 5,000 a year.

All plans include an unlimited number of wikis, blogs and other content tools for an unlimited number of users, but the highervalue plans include analytics, storage, bandwidth and other features as well.

Nugent’s team has used Near-Time to create tutorials on best practices and to facilitate training. Instructors use the tool to post preparatory work for classes, and students use it to post questions after the classes. "The result," says Nugent, "is a richer communication channel with our customers."

It’s important for companies to create new, informal channels between them and their users, "in no small part to help the former see what the latter needs and cares about," Nugent says. The Near-Time wiki tool helps NetScout do just that. "We are definitely extending our footprint for training," she says.

Five Keys to Successful Use of Collaborative Tools (Gartner)

Don’t Allow Anonymity: Chances for polite, productive collaboration are greater if users’ names and reputations are on the line.

Managers Must Manage Collaboration, Too: Even in Wikipedia’s free-flowing editing environment, super-users occasionally step in to resolve problems.

Dole Out Responsibility: A wiki-work ethic won’t develop overnight, but you can speed the process along by giving users a clear stake in its growth.

Think Wiki: Encourage users to think about the many ways they collaborate—formally and informally—every day.

Think About What’s Not Wiki: Not everything your company does is a candidate for collaboration. Set appropriate boundaries.

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Tags: cioinsight collaboration near-time netscout rss

Self Publishing: Blogs and wikis are part epilogue, part marketing

Community Post — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:46:49 -0000

I saw an interesting piece in the NY Times Arts & Leisure section this weekend ("The Author Will Take Questions Now")
examining the go-to-market strategy for Amazon AND the Google Search Results Page (SERP).

The head web strategist at Harper Collins admitted she would rather have the author promote themselves online. It proves as a nice complement and the Publishing company can steer clear of the online marketing.

In response to this demand, Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired, recently started another venture (http://www.booktour.com). BookTour.com is a site for authors to market their books online along with their book signing/reading schedule.

Is this the next chapter of the Long Tail? Anderson, in "The Long Tail", explains how Amazon matches its profits from the best-seller list with backlist of millions of books.

Authors want increased attention. When you don't make it into the Sunday Book Review- don't sweat. Maybe you can have your book announced instead on thousands of blogs, social networking sites, and Wikipedia!

For example, one article might bring 10,000 hits from the Book Review. By contrast, you need 100 hits from 100 other sites to reach the same amount of traffic for you book! And- as an added bonus... you might be in the top 5 for your target keywords on Google. Check out SEOMoz for more on Search Engine Optimization

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Tags: blogs longtail nytimes publishing self publishing wikis

Software as a Service Applications: Trends from SearchSMB.com

Community Post — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:26:39 -0000

"SaaS apps being deployed by business units, not IT"-SearchSMB.com

We'll start with the statistics review, because Saugatuck Technology discovered the following in a 250 company survey

44% of companies buy SaaS solutions after checking with IT
24% will buy SaaS solutions when they meet pre-conditions from IT
36% of companies buy SaaS solutions without IT involvement

In fact, Saugatuck VP Mark Koenig went on to say in the report abstract: “We’re seeing breakthrough levels of SaaS acceptance for mission-critical computing, from SMBs to the largest enterprises worldwide. SaaS is not a curiosity – it’s mission-critical.”

Hosted, Software as a Service (SaaS) are much faster to market and create a solid grassroots movement for the non-IT person to get projects done. The trend looks to be shifting to lighter IT involvement in the decision phase, and a slowing pressure to integrate every system at the IT level.

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Social Media and the Long-Tail of SEO

Community Post — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:22:20 -0000

Using Search

I posted recently about the importance of using blogs for enhancing on line discovery. Another trend to take note of is how best to use Social Media sites and Search Engine Optimization for taking blogging to the next level. Here are some statistics on search:

Searches- July 2006	Choose the 2-3 word phrases
2 word phrases	28.91%
3 word phrases	27.85%
4 word phrases	17.11%
1 word phrases	11.43%

So now what? Optimizing your site for Google and Yahoo is more than just pushing one word keywords into your description and title tags. Within Blogs and Wikis, longer phrases are encouraged. The same goes with search. Longer headings and titles will generally yield better results when trying to compete for the top spot on Google.

Search bots look for a few main parts of the page for these 2 and three word phrases

Anchor Text – The visible part of a link i.e. Web2.0 Glossary

Headings- HTMLdefined headings that the search engines look for (i.e. H1, H2…). font size 90px will not matter.

META tags Descriptions within the HEAD section of an HTML document which are seen on the search page. And FYI- Google displays 165 characters.

Text Content 2-word and 3-word strings repeated in a body of text will enhance ranking. period.

Wiki A great SEO engine! Lot’s of content and lots of context. Why do you think Wikipedia was so succesful?

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Tags: long tail seo social media

Collaboration and Open Source Economic Development- Best Practices

Community Post — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:11:40 -0000

Ed Morrison has launched the first of many economic development spaces on the wiki and weblog framework- EDPro-Weblog.net

Here are some of the highlights from the Press Release:

As the paradigm in economic development shifts from competition to collaboration, integrated Web communications are becoming a key element in building civic communities comprised of individuals representing diverse interests. I-Open is using Near-Time as a platform to help leaders in business, education, economic development, workforce development, politics and philanthropy launch public Web sites, plan and manage projects and collaborate on content.

“Enabling online collaboration in the civic space is difficult because it’s heterogeneous,” noted Ed Morrison, Founding Partner of Cleveland-based I-Open. “We chose Near-Time because they are a company with a solid understanding of how different collaboration tools integrate. In regional economic development, the Near-Time platform changes the game, delivering simple yet powerful tools that accelerate collaboration across organizational and political boundaries. The platform’s flexibility and customization work well in everything from simple collaborations to complex publishing.”

Read the complete article here

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From McKinsey Quarterly- Harnessing company intelligence

Community Post — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:31:51 -0000

McKinsey Quarterly surveyed over 500 German employees on their use of participatory media- defined to include blogs, wikis, and social video. Simple questions such as, "Why do you upload videos?"and "What motivates you to post to the wiki?" offers great insight into harnessing the collective-intelligence of the company. More than half of the contributors to a cable company wiki mentioned motivations such as-

Reputation building
Team spirit
Community Identification

Managers within the companies also pointed to the social networks and company e-mail system to identify the social mavens or thought leaders to take charge on the wiki.

The leadership from within the company created better-quality posts and also boosted overall participation within the company.

Read the entire article here

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Tags: mckinsey social video web 2.0 wikis

Trends of Customizable News Pages... and what it means for you

Community Post — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:31:05 -0000

The NYTimes.com launched their customizable RSS feed display today. It looks like a relatively similar play to MyNewsweekor AOL’s new recently launched widget-based page.

I think we can spot a trend. Traditional news services are leveraging the blogosphere and external feeds to aggregate information for their readers.

This is a valuable heads up display for content at a glance when you can see your weather, your e-mail (YahooMail or GMail), and a few of your favorite columnists.

Newsvine is one of the most popular Web 2.0 news aggregators and could have spawned this entire trend. Near-Time’s syndication feature is of a similar mindset of bringing content into your collaboration space.

So the take home point— the trend is here to stay.

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Tags: near-time newsvine newsweek nytimes

Small Business blogging can bring exponential growth in website traffic

Community Post — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:27:28 -0000

If you are looking for more lead generation on your website, then blogging might just be the answer. Sarah Needleman of the Wall Street Journal posted this article- Wall Street Journal: Blog It and They May Come = url:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118712944622997734.html

Here are some of the company's spotlighted

Getting In Writing
- now draws 150,000 visitors/ month off the company's blog
- 25-fold increase in lead generation off the web
Sequence Inc
- 30% of the her business comes from the blog
- Each case brings between $5,000 and $25,000 in revenue

Blogging tools are sometime cumbersome to set up and launch, but patience is the key. Writing for 30-45 minutes a day on the company blog can produce tremendous results. Take note of these business-case examples using Near-Time:

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Tags: blog blogging smb wallstreetjournal

Comments

Brian Flannery said, Fri Aug 24 00:26:49 UTC 2007:

Nice find, Brian. 25x is a massive increase! In the voodoo magic world of SEO optimization, this is a really strong statement about the larger parts of the puzzle.

Responding to the Complexities of Enterprise Software

Community Post — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:57:14 -0000

How large is your IT department? Regardless of size, they are managing millions of lines of code specific to the organization. No one person could possibly know or maintain that complex and costly system. Cynthia Rettig recently outlined the costs and complexities of enterprise software in the MIT Sloan Management Review.

Costs for an IT department include

Maintenance- "70% to 80% of their budgets just trying to keep existing systems running"
Company Investment- 22% of total investment goes to IT
Risk- "75% ERP implementations were considered failures."^SMR

Enterprise 2.0 is about the self-service web and making valuable communication happen quickly and allowing the maintenance of "software" to take the backseat. As I see it with large line-of-business implementations, the IT department simply signs off on the project without stepping in. Do they really want another collaboration tool to manage.

Two trends in self-service software are here to help:

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS):

Software that users purchase based on a subscription model (such as every quarter or every year). In most cases, SaaS involves software that is delivered via the Internet (also known as hosted software).

Leading analysts such as Gartner are predicting that within a few years over 25% of business applications will be delivered as a SaaS model vs. traditional licensing.

Architecture of participation:

A scenario where a community of users build a system (Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2003) and is a critical part of Web 2.0.

Some businesses are using the power of architecture of participation. Near-Time enables the business professional to create these systems in minutes. Integrating other services such as Wufoo, Google Video, Open ID, and Hipcast allow for richer interaction within a collaboration environment like Near-Time.

Categories: Enterprise 2.0
Tags: mit sloan

Social Media and the Enterprise Day to be Held at Upcoming Blog Business Summit

Community Post — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:26:18 -0000

The BlogBusinessSummit news release mentions, "Companies that use internal collaboration software have seen
their intra-office e-mail traffic reduced by as much as 30%. The
result has been more time spent actually innovating and less
time sorting through stacks of backlogged e-mail."

Read the article here

At Near-Time, we are also discovering a great application for seeking for cross organization collaboration. Some of these implementations include:

Web publishing without an IT department or webmaster
Client and customer portals
Partner workspaces
File-sharing outside the firewall
Marketing campaigns
Channel and vendor relationships

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Enthusiasts start to monetize content and community

Community Post — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:34:02 -0000

Congratulations to our enthusiast communities who are monetizing content and community with Near-Time Premium

Here are a few of the latest


WholeOctave.com	Brickjournal.com	Golfbydesign.net

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Netscout chooses wikis and blogs for User Forum

Community Post — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:22:44 -0000

Challenge:

“We needed to find new ways to communicate with our community. Our customers are very busy during the day, and the blog/wiki’s clean, readable style makes it easier for for our customers to quickly get our latest communications.”

Dave Scuito, Netscout Community Manger

Solution:

Replaced homegrown Forum with an Integrated Wiki & Blog platform in Near-Time

Results:

"Our organization is excited to be using collaboration applications like Near-Time to communicate with our community. To date, we’ve used it post our “Birds on a Wire” series of podcast radio, in which customers talk via phone with each other and NetScout engineering management. The community seems to be attracted to this new series and are asking to be added to the blog/wiki."

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Tags: netscout nufblog user forum

Cambrian House helps to unleash the entrepreneurial drive of 6 billion people

Paul Hilburger — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:59:19 -0000

Cambrian House enables people to take an idea for new software and put it to a vote. The network of developers, entrepreneurs, and investors, among others, selects the favorites and works to turn them into products. Even better, members who actively participate in the community of ideas earn shares in Cambrian House -- simply by commenting on business ideas, editing profiles or contributing code.

Visit their site to learn more.

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Collaboration 2.0: Wiki & Blog - Latest Articles

Does SharePoint pass the test?

How to record a Skype call

AltSearchEngines introduces member forum (part of the ReadWriteWeb Network)

E-mail: finally on a need to know basis!

Google Zeitgeist 2007 - Parts Untold

Untangle old comment threads & create a forum

Near-Time joins the EContent 100

Organizing collaboration through mutual self-interest

Strengthening social ties

Formal Networking for mutual self-interest

Busting the Silos & Creating the Network

Collective Success

WROX launches an ASP title in Wiki format

Wikis and widgets have landed

Make the most of Social Media and User-Generated-Content

Is it really 90-9-1?

Maybe closer to 50-50?

Can marketers take advantage of this?

What are the emerging technologies marketing departments using?

How to: Make a post delicious

From CIO Insight- "Collaboration: Superhero in the Cubicle"

Self Publishing: Blogs and wikis are part epilogue, part marketing

Software as a Service Applications: Trends from SearchSMB.com

"SaaS apps being deployed by business units, not IT"-SearchSMB.com

Social Media and the Long-Tail of SEO

Using Search

Searches- July 2006

Choose the 2-3 word phrases

Collaboration and Open Source Economic Development- Best Practices

From McKinsey Quarterly- Harnessing company intelligence

Trends of Customizable News Pages... and what it means for you

Small Business blogging can bring exponential growth in website traffic

Responding to the Complexities of Enterprise Software

Social Media and the Enterprise Day to be Held at Upcoming Blog Business Summit

Enthusiasts start to monetize content and community

WholeOctave.com

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