Issues like leaking of corporate secrets, confidentiality, liable, etc with the Enterprise Wiki.
“Companies need to be alert to the dangers that free comment made in wikis and blogs may be libellous or infringe employee rights laws.” - Crispin O’Brien, KPMG’s head of technology
The KPMG press release: http://www.kpmg.co.uk/news/detail.cfm?pr=2898
Article is http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/13450
http://www.e2oh.com/2008/03/02/a-banana/ is an interesting article on the pitfalls and best practice from implementation of an enterprise wiki.
Items like “painting lines on the road” are important but equally not styming uptake with overly agressive security models, excessive taxonomy, and extreme management styles.
http://distributedresearch.net/wiki/index.php/Wiki_facilitation is practical on the process of facilitating wiki contribution. Simple concepts like not creating a full skeleton of blank pages for the wiki but rather concentrate effort on small content centres.
http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/
Excellent article on generational attitudes to social networking and the concept that once information is in the wild on the internet it will always be findable through Google.
Published in NY Mag. Author is Emily Nussbaum.
Google has signed a deal with NSW Department of Education to provide gmail accounts for 1.3 million users.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/google-enrolled-for-schools-email-deal/2008/07/29/1217097241055.html
Daniel Emerson (July 24th) in th Sydney Morning Herald writes an interesting little story about the lack of Mac compatibility of its etax software.
See: SMH: Mac attack on Taxmans bad fo
Interesting that the ATO doesn’t know how many of its customers use Macs since that sort of information is collected in web site log files. My company attempts to meet an open standards approach for general compatibility with all platforms and performs tests on all platforms that account for greater than 1% of our web traffic.
Just a bit of fun but also interesting in showing off a web 2.0 terminal style interface to Google.
Read the article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9958211-2.html?tag=nl.e501
See the website: http://www.goosh.org/
Apparently now Google can search into Flash files. No news on other search engines being able to get under the hood in flash but it seems to be an indication of good news.
http://mashable.com/2008/07/01/google-adobe-flash-search/
Starting to think about what the new Intranet is going to be. Initially the concept of a Wiki seems appropriate with broadly the following areas:
1. Corporate. The “official version” type information, ie published policies, procedures, news etc which is published from “the company”
2. myTeam. While you may be a member of many teams this sort of content is ment to be user generated/updateable.
3. myStuff. Information published for you by you.
The one problem with Wiki is it isn’t really how lots of people use the web, for that you need more of the social networking stuff and here is a list of open source social networking platforms that could play into the intranet space. Key strength is that its the information you / your collegues believe is important and may include information from outside the corporation.
Have a look at this article from 2007. http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/open-source-social-platforms/
and this comparison on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_social_networking_software
Here’s some good news. Alfresco (open source enterprise level CMS) are offering a 5 day training course in Sydney.
http://www.alfresco.com/services/training/sessions/2008/08/20080818-2190-tetralogyx/
D will be a declarative language aimed at non-developers, and will be based on eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML), sources, who asked not to be named, said.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1159&tag=nl.e622
