NOTES TO MY FUTURE DUMBER SELF, 1.0
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March 24, 2008

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My posting has been pretty weak lately as I’ve just been swamped on the business front.

Nevertheless, I’m starting a new segment on the Software Blog, “Notes to my Future Dumber Self.” This is where I am going to store links to stories that I find interesting for whatever reason. I won’t have much analysis tied to them but they will be reference points for a future time when I scratch my head and say, “where was that article about XYZ…”

And in that vein are some links tied to the continued evolution of Enterprise 2.0. The video in the first one is particularly illuminating. Enterprise 2.0 has promise but as the final speaker says, (roughly) “data in the enterprise behaves differently than in the wild.” I’d add security concerns, cost-accounting concerns, and GI/GO concerns all as major roadblocks to any sort of useful Enterprise 2.0 application. Of course, this now has a term (yawn), the “Socialprise.”

“Enter the Socialprise“ Not a bad primer and an above-average definition.

“Socialprise applications sit at the junction of traditional enterprise applications and social networks, and they are a mash-up of the information and the user experience between these converging universes. Socialprise applications enable organizations to discover and distill highly relevant information from an expanding sea of structured and unstructured data sources and present it in the meaningful context of specific business processes. They address both content aggregation and presentation — and inject it with a healthy dose of collaborative functionality for enterprise-wide applicability.” - InsideView (www.insideview.com)

A thousand words:

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Wouldn’t it be sweet to *somehow* aggregate all your connections to an account in one place so that you can readily, visually see the avenues of approach you (the salesperson) has? More on this idea later.