Archive for the 'Innovation' Category

I’m thrilled to be able to say… I’ll be more than just an attendee in Frankfurt on Nov 10-12 for the E2.0 Summit.
The event is about how corporations have to change to be more productive as well as innovative and competitive for their markets by the use of social software. With the presentation of [...]

There was the opportunity to learn more about IBM’s developing story around ‘cloud’ within IBM the Lotus software brand.  The techjam at IBM South Bank, was attended by representatives from the IBM business partner community and some larger SI’s.
As the event coincided with recent announcements around the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 client release (announcement details) and [...]

Gartner hosted the 4th annual Europe based “Gartner : Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit” (pcce4) in London this week. From statistics given the delegates had a good cross industry and European countries (and further afield) representation.
The summit host Toby Bell and his colleague Debra Logan welcomed us by providing a grounding for the event through [...]

 
 
Overview:
A major set of vendors were present in Manchester to promote their products and services.  The focus was in small & medium business spectrum but there were elements that were relevant to the enterprise scale as well.  The vendors represented were also across the spectrum of the IT and computer services industry – memory [...]

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Google gave a keynote on Cloud Computing, their stand was focussed on promoting their cloud based Enterprise computing suite – Google Apps.  What came across in my discussions with their representative was the keenness to compete with Microsoft in the area of cloud based productivity services.  They were also eager to emphasise their [...]

Technorati Tags: Lotus,Foundations,XPages,Portal,Connections
This Techjam for System Integrators had a packed agenda covering the latest and greatest news from the IBM Lotus Brand.
In the month of the LCTY events in the UK, this was a great primer for those events.
The agenda for the day was as follows:
Introduction and welcome message Jamie Goodhead – Business Unit [...]

Technorati Tags: Speech recognition,productivity

Today I have tried the using speech recognition software, that comes with Windows Vista. 
For the home worker, who is normally working in a quiet and undisturbed environment.  There is the opportunity for the use of voice control software to manipulate and drive the interaction between the user and their device.  This [...]

Technorati Tags: Enterprise 2.0, RSS, Keynote
This is a quick summary of my thoughts on the 1st day of Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, June 2008
Morning Key Notes:
Fedex – Rob Carter CIO:
Discussed the value in networks and connectedness, a digital network must be connected, interoperable with and overlay your physical network. 
Demo’d Fedex Adobe Air client.  [...]

Technorati Tags: Innovation, Social networking, Enterprise 2.0
The Dixie Chicks can make people more innovative
First of all, great post Gia!
As you say the pain is in porting an update from one disconnected service to another disconnected service, whether it be avatars or connections/relationships – I find that painful too.
The pseudo connection/relationship import of contacts from email [...]

Technorati Tags: AIIM, ECM, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0
 
For those who are not aware of what AIIM seeks to do here is a brief summary:
wikipedia – aiim.org
AIIM is a not-for-profit organisation seeking to educate, inform and construct best practice approaches to the use of ECM and DMS within the enterprise. It works with all connected parties as [...]