Web 2.0

Fragmentation of Social Sharing Environments

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ October 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Progress requires innovation, success spawns imitation, competition requires differentiation – and after 7+ years of “Web 2.0”, there are multiple sharing environments vying for our attention (and participation). Content Creation Blogging has morphed beyond it’s “personal diary” origins; Blogger, WordPress, and the various CMS platforms have moved to become a long-format publishing platforms that continue [...]

Google+ is Active, not Passive, Social Networking

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This past week saw the introduction of Google+, the search behemoth’s entry into the social networking fray. A slew of posts, articles, opinion pieces, etc. were sure to flow – and as I settled down with some time and a backlog of links to review, here are my initial thoughts on the service. Do I [...]

Underwhelming experiences with Google Wave

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ October 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Took some time today to work with the new communication meme – Google Wave. I wouldn’t call it a fundamentally new way to communicate – well, not yet. I think Google is safe to continue with a “preview” label – clearly not even “beta” yet. No horrible bugs – at least on the Windows platform [...]

Wikis in High School

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 3, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Last month, Vinson wrote about the use of wikis in school projects, and it reminded me to dust off some notes I took from a conversation with my daughter Sean MacLennan, late last year. It was a history project about World War II, and the class was asked to compose their reports on a wiki. [...]

Zodiac of Knowledge Capture

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ January 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The start of a new year gives me a rare chance to measure my knowledge capture output over time. I maintain electronic journals for the various projects I am driving, business units and functional areas I support, and people I work with. This results in a hundred or so separate MS Word documents, with generally [...]

Back to the Future: Twitter "microblogging"

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ January 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

“That’s pretty good, Johnny, but that ain’t the way I heerd it. . . .”I recall when all this “blogging” talk started, way back in 1999 or so (thanks to Hallett for a decent history). The idea was to post thoughts and feelings, observations about technology, society, or whatever – anything from a daily diary [...]

Dueling Collaboration Portals

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I noticed an interesting phenomenon this afternoon; we are experimenting with SharePoint as our internal project management / collaboration portal. A nice platform to choose, because it’s popularity is growing, and there are a wide selection of add-on products and development partners ready, willing, and able to help us spend our money to make it [...]

Enterprise 2.1: Exiting the Trough of Disillusionment

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

“What will you do with that car if you actually catch it?” – what the cat asked the dog (from the Chicago Reader, circa 1989) So you’ve gone all “Enterprise 2.0″, spinning up a wiki, a blog, and a SharePoint or Drupal server inside your firewall. Now what happens? The groundswell of interest in “cool [...]

Opportunistic Insights from the RSS Stream

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ June 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve written about using RSS for internal as well as external information sources. This past week, I found a couple of interesting tidbits in my feed reader (behind the firewall) … Eyes on the Skies: It’s that time of year again; oil price volatility will continue if any big storms create problems for refineries in [...]

The Right Web2.0 Tool for the Audience (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook)

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The volume of Twitter posts popping up in my feed reader is ticking upward, a phenomenon I find interesting because of something I noted recently on LinkedIn. A few weeks ago, a new feature appeared, enabling me to report what I’m working on – Twitter for the office crowd. Always willing to try some flair, [...]

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