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Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange
Posted 30 Jun 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Blogs, business, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, media, Media and Publishing, new media, online, Platform, publishing, Recommendations, Social Networking, Strategy, Syndication, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring commun Read more ...

Ecommerce Interview: Adding Community for Maximum Return an Interview with Adam Michelson
Posted 23 Jun 2009 by Noreen Vincent | Tags: Community, Ecommerce, Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, Facebook, Facebook Connect

We recently had some time to talk to Adam Michelson, Director of Ecommerce at Optaros, to hear what he is seeing with large retail clients and how they are experiencing the impact (increased traffic, conversion rates and order size) of adding community to their existing online stores. We hope you find this interview interesting and offers ideas around how you could add community to your online store. Here is a quick recap on what is covered in our interview with Adam: Read more ...

Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?
Posted 14 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Advertising, Advertising Landscape, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Metrics, Online Advertising, oview, Performance, Platform, Social Networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Widget

Given the number of users who deploy ad-blocking software in their browsers, and the complete blindness to banner ads exhibited by most website users who haven't bothered to deploy ad blockers, it isn't surprising that the industry continues to seek a replacement (or at least a supplement) for the standard banner ad. Read more ...

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Advertising, API, application syndication, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, Digital Media, Distributed Development, long-tail, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Online Advertising, Open Innovation, Open Source, publishing, Social Networking, syndicate, User Experience, Web 2.0

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren't usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we've termed the Assembled Web. Read more ...

Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web
Posted 03 Apr 2009 by Sebastian Wohlrapp | Tags: Assembled Web, Clients, Community, Europe, Java, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Mobile, Open, Open Source, RIA, Rich Internet Application, Solutions, Switzerland, telco, telecom, User Experience, Web 2.0

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and me2me was awarded twice with this accolade which honours Switzerland’s top websites.   me2me was awarded the Best of Swiss Web Technology Innovation Silver Award and the Business Efficiency Bronze Award 2009. The project was also a nominee for the 2009 Master of Swiss Web.   Read more ...

Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Posted 31 Mar 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Read more ...

DrupalCon DC 2009: 5 Key Trends
Posted 20 Mar 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Assembled Web, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Content Management, Crowdsource, Culture, Design, Drupal, Media and Publishing, Open Source, PHP, Platform

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. (DrupalCon is the semi-annual gathering of Drupal developers, users, themers, consultants, and contributors; its generally held once in the US and once in Europe each year - the next will be DrupalCon Paris in September 2009). Read more ...

Drupal, Acquia, and 2009
Posted 01 Jan 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Blogs, Business Model, Community, Content Management, Drupal, Enterprise applications, Open Source, Platform, Social Networking

Looks like 2009 will be yet another exciting year of growth for the Drupal community. Dries Buytaert (Drupal project founder and lead, Acquia co-founder) announced two significant news items for the Drupal world in his recent "Predictions for 2009" blog post: a predicted release date for Drupal 7, and a major change in Acquia's support offering. Read more ...

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source Read more ...

Designing for the Social Web
Posted 10 Nov 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Community, Design, Digg, Direct Consumer Engagement, Facebook, Information Architecture, interface, Recommendations, Social Networking, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0

When the World Wide Web first hit popular consciousness, the major challenge for designers was to understand that the web wasn't print. The conventions, patterns, and approaches that traditional design had prepared them to rely on were no longer valid, and they needed to develop new conventions for the new medium. Read more ...

Reviewing the Groundswell
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Groundswell, Marketing, media, Online Advertising, Open Source, Social Networking, User Experience, Web 2.0

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, published by Harvard Business Press (note: disclaimers at the end of the post). Read more ...

Why Communities Fail
Posted 17 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Business Model, Community, Corporate Websites, Social Networking, Strategy, support, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0

Ben Worthen had an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal about the kinds of online communities companies are starting to build - "Why Most Online Communities Fail." He provided some potentially disturbing statistics from a recent study: Read more ...

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, JBoss, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. Read more ...

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Architecture, Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Read more ...

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Alfresco, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Content Management, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Open Innovation, Open Source, Platform, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a role to play in the overall shift in the direction of Enterprise 2.0 knowledge worker applications through the notion of content services and social services: Read more ...

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