Anthony Bradley

I’m excited to be chairing the upcoming Gartner Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit 8-10  December 2008 in Las Vegas, NV at Caesars Palace. The themes are SOA & Modernization: Beyond Business & IT Alignment. This is our flagship SOA event and we are taking a little different tack than usual. In response to attendee feedback we have [...]

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Category: Gartner Conferences     Tags: Gartner Conferences, SOA

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Kathy Harris has an interesting post on ideation and the mixture between art and science. Indeed, ideation is one of the fastest growing application types of social software. I agree that although much of the science may be developed, implementations still face the art of mobilizing the community and gaining their meaningful participation. One of the [...]

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Category: social software     Tags: idea engines, social software

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A Federal Computing Week news piece reports on the FBI starting a Wiki called Bureaupedia for crime-solving information sharing. The piece is very general and it is hard to understand from it what the FBI hopes to achieve with their *pedia. They are joining in on a trend originally popularized by the DIA’s Intellipedia project. Many if not most [...]

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Category: social applications     Tags: government, social applications, wiki

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A FastForward blog post today addressed the potential of Twitter to transform or at least significantly impact knowledge management. The apparent oxymoron caught my attention. How can the lifestreaming of information snippets with a shelf life shorter than the life span of a fruit fly really impact knowledge management? I don’t tweet. I have an account [...]

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Category: social software     Tags: Micro-blogging, social software, Twitter

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My cohort Nick Gall posted on Web 2.0: Now With Fewer Features. I’m surprised he didn’t mention Gall’s Law. That is John Gall’s Law. I paraphrase it as, “every successful complex system started as a successful simple system.” When it comes to implementing social applications (see my previous post on social applications) you must never [...]

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Category: social applications     Tags: Gall's Law, Simplicity, social applications

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Though backed by some powerful organizations (Universal Music Group and Discovery Communications) and a good chunk of seed money, the social site Uber has shut its doors. As blogger Caroline McCarthy points out, it was difficult to understand what Uber really was about. This identity crisis probably led to its demise. This is another example of [...]

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Category: social applications     Tags: purpose, social applications

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If you are reading this then you know that Gartner has launched a new analyst blogger network. Gartner has research related blogs and has for a long time. These blogs are mostly around topics and events. What’s new about this is it is a network of individual analyst blogs. These are real blogs. Analysts can [...]

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Category: social applications     Tags: blogging, Lessons Learned, social applications

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I will be presenting and participating in the Gartner Web Innovation Summit and the Portals, Content, and Collaboration Summit in Las Vegas all this week. I will be blogging on the event. I will be presenting on enterprise mashups, building social applications, and on the relationships between Web architecture, SOA, and cloud computing.  I hope to hear [...]

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Installing (or providing) social software will not lead to thriving communities. It will not transform your culture. It most likely won’t lead to anything. Chances are the installed technology will sit their primarily unused. Even worse, activity may emerge that leadership considers a waste of time or even a threat to security, privacy, etc. So [...]

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Category: social applications     Tags: social applications, social software

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