Collaboration Technologies
“You can bank on a tenfold improvement in the cost and capability of collaboration technologies over the next five years. What will your organization do with that?”
MIT Sloan Management Review
1 CommentTraction Software Named By KMWorld
For the third year in a row, Traction Software was included in KM World’s list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. Hugh McKellar notes that the companies listed “distinguished themselves to our panel of judgets because of their role in creating, enhancing, or defining a market.”
Blogs To Replace Corporate Web Sites
The most powerful thing about blogging isn’t the technology, but the massive community that drives the blogosphere, says the author. “With millions of bloggers expressing their thoughts, experiences, and information they’ve learned in their fields of interest, this medium has become a worldwide forum.”
A common trap that companies that blog tend to fall into is to look at blogs `as just another way to get out the same old marketing message’. Alas, nobody wants to read that kind of thing on a blog, Wright notes. “An open and honest public blog, written by an authoritative voice from within your company, allows your business to create a different type of experience between you and your customers: it allows you to create legitimate conversations that simply weren’t possible before online blogging.”
Blogs As Business Machines
While newspaper readership drops, the buzz is about blogs and social networking Web sites like MySpace and Friendster. Business types are finding that blogs and social sites are about more than chatting online. Blogs can be awesome generators of new clients and leads.
The Data Dump
So we come again to a paradox which has been around for most of the Information Age, and which keeps getting more acute every year: We have more information available than ever, but getting the right information at the right time is getting harder all the time.
Accenture’s study of middle managers in June 2006 revealed this fact quite plainly. A third of respondents said that it takes a long time to get the right data, and 57% said that compiling information from multiple sources is a tough part of their jobs.
