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Enterprise Meta Data
Mike replied to my post about his question on enterprise metadata. He, like me, prefers David Marco's definition of metadata as "all physical data and knowledge from inside and outside an organization, including information about the physical data, technical and business processes, rules and constraints of the data, and structures of the data used by a corporation" because the business rules pertaining to the data is important.
Date: 2007-12-27
SES - Big Site, Big Search
How do you cope with doing search engine optimization for a company with tens of divisions, hundreds of products, thousands of web pages and seemingly no way to bring order to the chaos? Where do you begin with the SEO process?
Date: 2007-12-05
Enterprise Decision Management Last Mile Mistakes
My good friends over at Juice Analytics had an interesting post on the "last mile" of Business Intelligence that made me think about Enterprise Decision Management in that context.
Date: 2007-11-27
Pick Your Battles & Build Decision Services
Recently Richard Hackathorn posted Where to Pick Your Battles and referenced an interesting post by Richard Buckle titled, somewhat incongruously, Need a drink!
Date: 2007-11-16
Gartner's Magic Quadrant For Enterprise Social Software
Gartner Research released the first Magic Quadrant report on the Enterprise Social Software market last
week. This is a pretty big milestone in the development of the Enterprise 2.0 category at-large.
Date: 2007-10-29
Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites
Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine and others allow community members to share and rate news stories. They are primary news sources and influential outlets that must be considered by marketers.
Date: 2007-10-17
Jaiku - All About Mobile & Presence
Since the news broke that Google has acquired Jaiku, every manner of opinion has surfaced on what it means, why they didn't buy Twitter, who will, etc. Never heard of Jaiku?
Date: 2007-10-11
Is IT Holding You Back From Web 2.0?
One of the ideas in web 2.0 is collaboration, unfortunately, people are finding out that the IT Department that has a long history of non-collaboration, and might be holding back a companies adoption of Web 2.0 technologies within a company.
Date: 2007-09-24
Has Corporate Blogging Reached Its Tipping Point?
Despite the fact that, statistically, corporations aren't adopt blogs at a rapid pace, it's possible we've passed the point of exclaiming each time a big company does opt to start a conversation with its customers or other constitutents.
Date: 2007-09-05
EBay Drops Ball With Skype Crisis Communication
Om Malik rightly asks where was eBay's management during the recent Skype outage? For a company that supposedly understands the value of web communities, it failed to ease the concerns of Skype users who went 30+ hours without service.
Date: 2007-08-20
Using EDM To Win With Operational Automation
Operational Automation will Always Win Out in the End in which he argues that a focus on low cost locations is never going to work better than operational automation.
Date: 2007-08-06
Picking An Enterprise Decision Management Pilot
When I was reading Scott Ambler's book, The Enterprise Unified Process, he had some great tips for picking a pilot project that I thought I would shamelessly steal and adapt for a discussion of pilot projects for enterprise decision management.
Date: 2007-07-23
Yahoo Senior Marketer Says To Use EDM (Kinda)
I was reading this interesting McKinsey report - Confronting proliferation ... in online media: An interview with Yahoo!'s senior marketer. In this report Cammie Dunaway, CMO for Yahoo, talks about how Yahoo is coping with the explosion of choices and distractions available to a typical online consumer.
Date: 2007-07-09
Big Companies Change a Lot
After speaking in Chicago on Friday, I spent a delightful couple of hours waiting out flight delays. (Yeah, I don't think I've written that sentence before, either.)
Date: 2007-06-27
Google Names Microsoft In Antitrust Matter
Google filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, in secret, several months ago; the complaint suggested that Vista’s desktop search function is too hard to turn off.
Date: 2007-06-11
Online Revealed Canada Keynote
Dr Hunter Madsen of Yahoo! gave the keynote at Online Revealed Canada today. He started with this definition of social media marketing: Social media marketing is when you empower people to tell your story in a way that enhances your brand online.
Date: 2007-05-29
Why Enterprise 2.0 Will Not Transform Organizations...
While doing some RSS feeds catchup, I actually bumped again into a weblog post that I have been meaning to share a thought or two for a little while now since it has been out there in the open for a few weeks already.
Date: 2007-05-14
SAP To Enterprise 2.0 Community: "We Get It"
A hot topic among social media bloggers these days is exactly which big companies "get" the value of connectedness, community and emergent technologies and which don't.
Date: 2007-04-30
Web 2.0 Expo: Built to Last
Yesterday at Web 2.0 Expo one of the main keynote sessions was the “Built to Last” Panel which consisted of John Battelle asking various questions to a few entrepreneurs who have built companies that have sold or were worth selling.
Date: 2007-04-18
Operational BI - An Oxymoron?
Amit Chembukar and Prasanna Keny of Tata Consulting wrote Trends in Operational BI in BI Review. It's a nice article and they make some good points about the characteristics of the kinds of systems they discuss: Operational - delivering decisions in operational, transactional systems.
Date: 2007-04-09
Google Adds To DoubleClick Intrigue
The biggest Internet players have at least a passing interest in DoubleClick, an online advertising network that reaches hundreds of websites, and they could be willing to overpay for it for a variety of reasons.
Date: 2007-04-02
Comcast Flirts With Microsoft, Teases Google
Just as AT&T wants to leverage a better deal with Yahoo over their co-branded services, Comcast would like to parlay its broadband customer base into a bigger chunk of the search advertising revenue pie.
Date: 2007-03-19
Finding A Web Measurement Home
Several of our engagements and serious consulting proposals recently have been very much focused on helping our clients build out a measurement department.
Date: 2007-03-05
Will Google Speak Up On VoIP?
The search advertising company has laid a lot of groundwork for what could be a dramatic entry into enabling voice over Internet telephony communications, but will they pull the trigger?
Date: 2007-02-19
The Marriott Way - Branding With Blogs
Recently I was pointed to a new blog "Marriott on the move", started by the CEO of Marriott Properties, Bill Marriott. What amazed me most is not only the fact that Mr. Marriott is a 74 year old "blogger" (no pun intended), but also that he understands the value of blogs and a two way communication with the customer they create.
Date: 2007-02-05
Google Plots On E-Books And Games
The new year finally seems to be on track, as new rumors about Google merrily bounced around the Internet, bringing tales of e-book distribution and in-game advertising with them. Reading books online has never grabbed people in the way viewing video online has.
Date: 2007-01-22
Yahoo Gets Around, A Lot, With Go 2.0
Yahoo! announced a flurry of new partnerships today as part of a global launch of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 (beta)...
Date: 2007-01-08
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