Archives for June, 2009
by Anthony J. Bradley | June 29, 2009 | 7 Comments
Recently the NY Times and Wikipedia conspired to keep a story on the kidnapping of a Times reporter off of Wikipedia. A “sanitizing” team of Wikipedia editors, led by Jimmy Wales himself, worked to keep the story from posting by deleting, blocking and freezing. The story quotes Wales as saying, “We were really helped by [...]
Category: Social Web social solutions Tags: Social Web
by Anthony J. Bradley | June 25, 2009 | 10 Comments
I just returned from a tour in Australia that took me from Brisbane to Canberra to Melbourne to Sydney where I met with 25 organizations in five days (which is why I have not posted much in the past few weeks). Most of my meetings concerned SOA and many of the orgs were in the [...]
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by Anthony J. Bradley | June 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
I cover how enterprises can build better IT solutions by capitalizing on Web 2.0 and SOA. The common thread here is really on gaining better sharing including both content and capability sharing. SOA, social solutions, cloud, and mashups all demand sharing and reuse. You’ll never achieve significant success in any of them without developing a [...]
Category: SOA Web 2.0 mashups social solutions Tags: sharing culture Web 2.0
by Anthony J. Bradley | June 11, 2009 | 7 Comments
OK, now it is starting to seem gratuitous after my post titled “You Can’t Build a Business Case for Social Software.” But I do actually have a point. Like social software, you can’t build a universal business case for mashups but need to examine how you can apply mashups to gain business value. In other [...]
Category: SOA mashups Tags: business justification, mashups
by Anthony J. Bradley | June 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
I used Twitter ages ago and never really got into it (didn’t see the value). But now that Twitter has gained more participants and I’m being asked more and more for my Twitter name, I’m going to give it another shot. I’ll try to tweet useful insights as I get them (obviously in sound bite [...]
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by Anthony J. Bradley | June 7, 2009 | Comments Off
This week I am at the Gartner PCC Conference June 8-10 in Orlando FL and here is my presentation schedule. Tomorrow morning at 9:45 AM ET Nikos Drakos and I are delivering a social software best practices session entitled “Social Software: Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast.” It should be both enlightening and fun. I’m [...]
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by Anthony J. Bradley | June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
In the course of my work advising clients I review numerous enterprise policy documents on social computing. Yesterday I spoke with an organization that was stipulating in their policy that employees could spend no more than 15 minutes per day on social networks. A different company last week had verbiage in their draft policy that [...]
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