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Joomla! Gains More Ground In The Business Arena
[2010-03-01] Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM), the not-for-profit organization that supports the Joomla! Project, today announced that Joomla!, the industry's leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. In addition, the Community Oversight Committee has elected several new board members including Steve Burge, Javier Gomez, Marko Milenovic, Jacques Rentzke, Robert Deutz and Akarawuth Tamrareang.
Accenture Launches Risk Management Service
[2010-02-15] Accenture has launched a global Risk Management consulting service to help companies better identify, manage and mitigate risks.
Making Stylesheets Easier To Write And Maintain
[2010-02-01] I've dabbled, played and tinkered with HTML/CSS for quite sometime but never took it seriously. Neither did I enjoyed doing them that much to relish the awesomeness of CSS. Of late, I've involved knee deep in some serious and heavy duty CSS
CIOs Still Unsure Of Facebook and Twitter's Role In Business
[2010-01-18] Here are several excerpts from an article by Jon Brodkin, Senior Writer for Network World, Facebook, Twitter Becoming Business Tools, But CIOs Remain Wary. Check out the complete source article for much more on this topic:
Google Adds Ad Blockage Extension To Chrome
[2010-01-04] Google must know something that we don't. Why else would they be SO open in their new move toward transparency as to allow for extensions on Chrome that, gulp, block the very lifeblood of their money printing operation? Well, considering the market share that Chrome currently has (around 40 million users) and the mindset of someone likely to use (or even know about) this extension the thought of this kind of ‘allowance' is probably bigger than the reality.
Understanding A Search Engine To Better SEO Your Sites
[2009-12-15] This post has been a long time coming. This is a topic that dives me mad to no end. Can you imagine a web developer that didn't know HTML? A conversion expert that doesn't know what Google Analytics is? How about a social media marketer that's never heard of Twitter?
GroundWork Announced Release Of Enterprise Quickstart And New Price Point
[2009-12-07] GroundWork, yesterday announched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance, coming with a low price. Beyond commercial open source pricing incentives, I asked David Dennis - senior director of product marketing at Groundwork - to tell why GroundWork used Suse Studio to create its virtual appliance.
Google's Chrome OS Slated For Release Next July
[2009-11-16] Google first announced is Chrome operating system in July. Open source and targeted at netbooks, the OS could launch within a week, according to TechCrunch.
Technologies That Greatly Impact The Potential Of Your Business
[2009-11-09] Forrester's Alex Cullen recently released, The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch and they were nice to share with me. The summary states, "Forrester has identified 15 technologies with the greatest potential for business impact, and we've grouped these technologies into five themes:
Staying Current With Your Social Media Research
[2009-10-26] This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ and some of his colleagues, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. Earlier, I wrote out their micro-messaging (Yammer) , wiki experiences, enterprise information architecture, and SharePoint implementation. For this post I spoke with Samuel and Peter Kruizinga about their social bookmarking experiences.
Software Features Should Be Driven By Your Consumers
[2009-10-12] Since I'm a product manager by day, I was intrigued by Forrester's Mike Gualtieri's tweet: "Software has become very bloated #btf09 because vendors love to add features and users hate to lose features"
Important CIO Lessons Revealed At CDM Media's Finance Summit
[2009-09-28] Brian Babineau recently attended CDM Media's CIO Finance Summit and moderated a few different panels. He had some excellent observations, some of which I will share here.
Insights on SaaS Startups
[2009-09-14] If you're building a SaaS (Software as a Service) startup you're in great company. Most software entrepreneurs today are taking this approach -- including me. Below are some simple insights that I've learned in the process of being in the trenches with my own startup.
Measuring The Success Of SaaS In Your Enterprise
[2009-08-24] The Q3 2009 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms by Rob Koplowitz is out. It looked at eleven providers in the enterprise collaboration space. There is a lot of useful information there.
Enterprise Architecture Is Built For An Organization’s Culture
[2009-08-10] I participated in an excellent conversation today on Twitter between a few EA advocates. I was following a conversation passively until I came across this tweet:
Is Cloud Computing Really Ready For Business?
[2009-07-27] You hear lots of talk about cloud computing, but is it really practical? It might sound cool and many cloud computing services are even free, but can you talk your executives into it? What are the kinds of things that they will ask that you need to think through? If you want to try cloud computing in your organization, you need to know what they will ask and be ready with the answers.
Manage Your Twitter Accounts From The Web
[2009-07-13] Seesmic have just released the preview version of Seesmic Web for Twitter. A web-based version of their hugely popular Seesmic Desktop desktop app, Seesmic Web also has some pretty cool new features not found on the desktop version.
Case Study On Why Reputation Management Is Important
[2009-06-29] Do you know what tactics your PR team is using in social media? UK furniture giant Habitat clearly doesn't and it just cost them a huge reputation blackeye in the Twitter community.
Controlling Online Defamation Through Reputation Management
[2009-06-15] Internet defamation can have a decidedly bad impact on your business and your personal life. Search engines make it possible to bring up information that is years out of date, completely inaccurate, or even about someone else who shares your name.
Practice Enterprise Architecture To Increase ROI
[2009-06-01] I have read many articles giving advice on how to sell a technology to the business. It seems that the ROI is a hard thing to derive and explain in business terms these days. You see it with SOA, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, and even with security (yes, having to prove the value of security)! Being a practitioner and addict of Enterprise Architecture, I find this method of thinking to be amusing and even backwards.
Making Your Cloud Server Architecture Secure
[2009-05-11] There are a lot of discussions going on about security and compliance in the cloud. The concerns are valid, but the belief that they can't be resolved are not. When you buy a cluster of servers and install them in your data center, are they secure? Of course not. There are many things one must do from the perspective of hardware, operating systems, process and policy, network, data center, and software in order to secure those servers and the applications or services running on them.
Managing Your Reputation Through Google Profiles
[2009-04-27] Google has launched a new way to search for individuals called Google Profiles.Setting up a Google Profiles account takes only a couple of minutes.
Using Social Computing Within The Corporate World
[2009-04-13] Continuing further with interesting video links that describe how large businesses are making use of social software, both inside and outside of the firewall, to help improve the way knowledge workers collaborate and share their knowledge (And how they can enhance their own interactions with their customers), here is another one I bumped into a couple of days back and which I can certainly recommend as being very insightful and thought-provoking, specially for those folks who may not buy too much into the concept of social computing within the corporate world.
Are You Up To Date on Web Analytics Technology?
[2009-03-30] Last week CMS Watch announced they have launched a new web analytics training course called: "Fundamentals of Web Analytics Technology." The 4 module course is taught by CMS Watch founder, Tony Byrne and costs $395. Check out the learning objectives of the Web Analytics Course below:
Competition Heats Amoung CRM Software Giants
[2009-03-16] Here are several excerpts from an interesting article by Bob Evans about the competition between the CRM software (and cloud computing) industry giants, (salesforce.com, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft), Global CIO: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Declared War - Are You Enlisting?. If this topic interests you, I urge you to read the entire source article for a much more comprehensive analysis:
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