Like Facebook, but without all the fun
The newest splash in the “Facebook in the Enterprise” race is a facebook application called “WorkBook” from a company called WorkLight. WorkBook is apparently part of the WorkLight platform, and...
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Drupalcon Boston 2008
Looking forward to the upcoming Drupalcon: Drupalcon Boston 2008 takes place from March 3, 2008 to March 6, 2008 at the Boston Convention and Expo Center. There will also be a Drupal Code Sprint on...
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(First part of this week I am attending DrupalCon 2008) [Update 3/4/08: Audio from the State of Drupal as well as Jay Batson and Dries' "Presenting Acquia" talk are available on Shai's podcast]...
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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – Social Bookmarking and Tagging
One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0 Panel on Open Source
Last week, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I moderated a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panelists were: Bob Bickel, from Ringside Networks John Newton, from Alfresco Jeff Whatcott,...
View ArticleState of Drupal (Szeged 2008)
I was unfortunately unable to get to Drupalcon Szeged last month, so I’m now making my way through the videos and slide decks from sessions there. One of the favorite keynotes of any Drupalcon of...
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Media Cloud(s) On the Horizon
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud in early March, though it had been quietly available for a few months before that. It’s an exciting concept, limited in its current...
View ArticleMultiple Communities, Multiple Platforms?
Found this interesting comment in a blog post by Tony Byrne from CMS Watch on the social software marketplace and the fact that Intel leverages multiple community software vendors: What this should...
View ArticleZeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS
Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web...
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Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)
One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open...
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This Week: The Great CMS Debate
Happy to announce (a bit late, I suppose, in that the event is sold out - though folks coming who don’t get to see the debate can still join us for networking and beer) that I’ll be moderating the...
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CMS Debate from North Shore Web Geeks
A few weeks back I was part of a panel at North Shore Web Geeks which they titled The Great CMS Debate. John Eckman, Jay Batson, Marc Amos, and Tom Herer. Photo (c) Trev Stair Unfortunately Jake...
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Open Source Business Social Software
Two projects I’ve been looking at this summer show just how far the Open Source world has come with respect to social business software. Eureka Streams, which is a new open source project sponsored by...
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Post-Vox, Ex-Ning? Consider WordPress, Drupal
Photo by Brian Arnold - http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianarn/265152959/ SixApart recently announced that they will be closing Vox, their hosted blog service, at the end of September. Earlier this...
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Drupal communities at AIIM
Photo by galawebdesign - http://www.flickr.com/photos/galawebdesign/2315810343/in/pool-644862@N21/ It wasn’t so long ago that Drupalcon was in the upstairs rooms at the BCEC while AIIM met downstairs...
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No more Chat Catcher
Photo by Chris Sternal-Johnson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceejayoz/371137761/ This is all a bit anti-climactic given that if you were an actual Chat Catcher user, you’ve known that the system was...
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DrupalCamp CT and the Legacy of Henry R. Luce
Last weekend I went down to New Haven for DrupalCamp CT 2011, at Yale. It was a smaller camp (compared to Design4Drupal Boston, or DrupalCon) but had excellent content and showed there is a strong...
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DrupalCamp Montreal
Just found out I will be speaking at DrupalCamp Montreal in a few weeks, on the subject of Open Source Video, using Kaltura with Drupal. We’re doing some work with an institute at a local university...
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Videos from DrupalCamp Montreal
McIntyre Medical Building (Photo by un flaneur, cc-by-nc-nd license) DrupalCamp Montreal was this past weekend, and the videos are already posted! The event venue was McGill University’s McIntyre...
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Western Mass Drupal Camp
Western Mass Drupal Camp will be held in Amherst MA on 1/21/12 I was very happy to find out this weekend that I will be speaking next weekend (1/21/12) at Western Mass Drupal Camp in Amherst. I’ll be...
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