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The Business Of Collaboration
[Cross-posted from Communities and Collaboration blog] Some Background The last few years can be described as the age of social business and collaboration. The demands and expectations of today’s knowledge workers have been shaped by the plethora of social networks and social media tools. Communicating and sharing information has never been easier. Staying connected withRead… Read more »
Combating duplication with open government
Originally posted on opensource.com. The second CityCamp Colorado started off with two speakers from the City of Denver setting the stage for the day’s theme: enhancing access to government. Held at the Jefferson County Administration and Courts Facility on October 28, 2011, more than 70 people gathered to participate, learn, and advance the open governmentRead… Read more »
Making the Most of Open Data through Linked Data
A guest blog by @ricroberts, CTO of Swirrl, creators of PublishMyData.com: The award winning Linked Data Publishing platform. Studies around open data often focus on the “armchair auditor”, and although these people do exist they are just a small contingent of those who could benefit from good open data. When considering the audience for openRead… Read more »
36 Knowledge Sharing Barriers
[This cross-posted from Communities and Collaboration blog] I have developed a number of Knowledge Management (KM) strategies for various clients over the past 11 or so years, and was recently asked to revamp and update the KM strategy for a large UK public sector organization that had undergone a fairly radical restructure. Previous experience ofRead… Read more »
And Now… Another Message on Open Innovation for Realtors
Over the past few months I’ve given a number of talks on open data and open innovation to groups of realtors around the country. During these talks I have cautioned that the more the real estate industry tries to protect (e.g. not share) it’s data, the more it risks making access to data (control) beRead… Read more »
Yesterday’s Security Doesn’t Work for Today’s Threats
Another discussion from the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011 featured Bob Gourley and HP’s Andrzej Kawalec, CTO of Enterprise Security, discussing the evolving enterprise threat environment and how it can be mitigated. Bob and Andrzej agreed on three major emerging challenges in enterprise cybersecurity. The first is simply the nature ofRead… Read more »
Disruptive networking
I think there always were disruptive networks. In the same way that tech has enhanced so many things, proliferated and amplified them, networks are the same. The difference is perhaps the organisations the networks are in – because I am of course speaking for the public sector here. 4,000 people struggle to keep in touch.Read… Read more »
The Evolving Enterprise Threat Environment
This won’t work anymore The second interview for IDG on Monday, September 12, featured Andrzej Kawalec, HP‘s CTO of Enterprise Security along with Bob Gourley. The two first discussed changes in the enterprise threat environment, which have been dramatic. They agreed on three major emerging challenges in enterprise cybersecurity. The first is simply the natureRead… Read more »
Governance Framework: Mechanisms for Inforation Management and SharePoint
Much of the Governance Models I’ve seen as of late still focus heavily upon how to set permissions in SharePoint. In previous blog post I stated I don’t believe this is governance but rather the enforcement end of governance. It this posting I’ll address some of the aspects of establishing a governance. For me theRead… Read more »