FASTforward - The Blog
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Discuss and debate how a new generation of search and search-driven applications are impacting the way we do business, compete, learn, build communities, socialize, and save, store, and search data.
The blog, like FASTforward '07, aims to drive and deepen conversation about how today’s companies can "Innovate, Accelerate and Dominate."
Please join us for what we hope will be a fun and engaging conversation that begins on the blog, is fully extended and realized at the conference, and, if we’re lucky, continues on past the conference.
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The Sharepoint Sessions – Part Four – Upcoming Sharepoint Investment Areas
This is part four and the last installment of my notes from a local event sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, “Real World Sharepoint Experiences.” Tara Seppa is a Microsoft Information Worker Solution Specialist who works with small to midsize businesses in New England. She covered Microsoft’s Sharepoint Investment areas. Tara started by saying that the [...]
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The Credit Crisis and Social Software - Part 1 - Why we need a return to credit based on social relationships
I have been quiet recently because events are so terrible that I wanted to be ready to offer some thoughts that might really help. Here is the first of a series that will, I hope, help you see why we are in such a jam now and why social software may offer us a a [...]
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The Sharepoint Sessions – Part Three – Sharepoint Best Practices Conference
This is part three of my four part notes from a local event sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, “Real World Sharepoint Experiences.” Tim Farrell and Marcel Meth gave a recap of the recent Sharepoint best practices conference. This event sold out quickly and I understand that Microsoft may offer them more frequently because of [...]
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The Sharepoint Sessions – Part Two – Training Approaches
This is part two of my four part notes from a local event sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, “Real World Sharepoint Experiences.” Pam Conway from Compuworks spoke on “Training Approaches to Drive Sharepoint Adoption.” Pam began her session by noting that acquiring skills is only one part of training. You also need to inform [...]
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The Sharepoint Sessions – Part One – Dispatches from the Front Lines
I recently attended a local event sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, “Real World Sharepoint Experiences.” Having been through a few of these myself in the past, I wanted to see the latest thinking on what it is likely the largest platform for enterprise 2.0 in terms of users. Last year Microsoft sold over 1B$ [...]
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Does Enterprise 2.0 Need to be ‘Governed’?
Many organizations are wrestling with the ways of governance for their service oriented architecture. SOA projects risk running seriously awry without getting a handle on their purpose and direction for the business.
Of course, since SOA and Enterprise 2.0 overlap so closely, this begs the question: should this governance be extended to Enterprise 2.0 activities? For [...]
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Enterprise 2.0 for Good Times, Enterprise 2.0 for Bad Times (And Everywhere in Between)
This past week has provided quite a lesson in the functioning of credit markets, and potential impacts on the economy at large. Will the credit crisis broaden into a deeper recession? Who knows. But, as I’ve said in previous posts, the next economic downturn will be different than ones in the past, thanks to Web [...]
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Inside or Outside? Gartner Attempts to Clear Cloud ‘Confusion’
Analyst firm Gartner just issued a statement that it believes there is “confusion” in the market over the definition of “cloud computing,” and wants to set the record straight.
Gartner defines cloud computing as “a style of computing in which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’ using Internet technologies to multiple external customers.”
However, [...]
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Will Tools Like Twitter Change the Ways We Work With Flows of Information and Knowledge ?
This is an edited version of a post I recently put up on the KMWorld 2008 blog (in blockquotes, below). The KMWorld 2008 conference was interesting (FAST had an exhibitor’s booth) and the contrast with last year in terms of the tangible interest in and take-up of social computing tools was evident.
People everywhere are beginning [...]
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Enterprise 2.0 Implementation, the book!
A few months ago Jeremy Thomas asked me if I would consider writing the forward for a new book he was writing with Aaron Newman. I was honored to be asked and said I would love to do it.
Today I have the final version of their hard work sitting in front of me: Enterprise 2.0 [...]
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