by Tom Austin | January 30, 2009 | Comments Off
According to the San Jose Mercury News, the Obama administration is appointing Katie Jacobs Stanton as “director of citizen participation. I *personally* love the idea of making government (and business) more transparent and giving citizens and other stakeholders (like shareholders and bondholders) a lot more say in what government (and business) does and how they [...]
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by Tom Austin | January 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Not sure how much of an event this really is. Google has been experimenting with this in various venues for many months. Now, it’s apparently available via labs.google.com. (Since gmail is still “beta”, at least on my system, does that mean that what’s on the labs site is pre-beta-beta? or what?) The acid test for [...]
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by Tom Austin | January 23, 2009 | 6 Comments
Michael Arrington on TechCrunch just published a piece on Google cutting back on the number of free user accounts an enterprise can have, dropping the number of people within an enterprise that can be signed up for Google Apps Standard Edition from 200 to 50. It’s not clear what the business implications – for Google [...]
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by Tom Austin | January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Wall St. Journal today writes about efforts underway (for the last 5 years) to improve communication, information access, sharing, collaboration, search, expertise location and so forth – across all the US Intelligence agencies. These efforts include moving to one email system across all the agencies, with a common directory, expertise profiles and social networking [...]
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by Tom Austin | January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
I was thinking about Andrew MacAfee’s “Ties” Model for Enterprise 2.0 over the holidays – and talking with one of my Gartner peers about it. Beyond reading what Andrew had to say, I heard him present this model in September 08 at the Talk the Future conference in Austria. It’s a seductive look at [...]
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