IBM Sweeps Enterprise CMS Readers’ Choice Awards. IBM today announced it received six awards across its software portfolio for its leadership in enterprise content management from Transform Magazine, the CMP Media publication that serves those choosing, managing and using content and collaboration technologies. IBM was recognized for… [cms~wire]
Month: September 2003
Corporate memory – the hard way. Denham Grey has written a blog entry on the knowledge management dream of capturing corporate memory. To quote: One of the central themes of KM is the design, building and maintenance of an effective ‘corporate memory’, a repository, a dare… [Column Two]
“We did not design for dialog, we built a vault to secure objects, when we badly needed a place to support relationships. We indexed, clustered and classified the content, when we really needed to point to people, we imposed order, when we should have co-designed, permitted emergence and shared the meaning, we had workflow and access rights, when we needed empathy, support, evangelism and interaction.”
Vignette to Acquire Collaboration Leader Intraspect. Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Intraspect Software Inc., a leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions. The acquisition will bring together the acknowledged market leader in content management and… [cms~wire]
We were just meeting with the Vignette partner folks the other day and I asked them if a collaboration purchase was on the horizon. I think all the big players have now hooked up with a collaboration vendor. As Gartner predicted, the Smart Enterprise Suite cometh.
Scientists Meditate on Happiness
Scientists Meditate on Happiness. Buddhism and science come together as the Dalai Lama looks for a way to relieve the world’s suffering. Turns out researchers think they can learn a lot from monks. Kim Zetter reports from Boston. [Wired News]
Reading slowly is a dying art
Scott Rosenberg: “If u cn rd ths msg u r jst lke vryne lse!”
Reading slowly is a dying art. As our world pushes us inevitably towards more speedy skimming of information blasting at us through a dozen different protocols, we scan more than we read.
The “speedy skimming” problem only gets worse as the addiction to news feeds grows.
X1 is “free PC software that uses an advanced indexing process that lets you find any word in any email or file on your computer, in under a second.” [Scripting News]
Chicago Tribune article on blogging in the workplace. [Scripting News]
Upcoming shows in Dallas worth checking out:
Lucinda Williams. Sept 18 at Gypsy Team Room’s ballroom. Doors open at 7:30. $23 in advance or $25 day of the show.
Ian Moore. Sept 19 at Poor David’s Pub. $16.
Robert Earl Keen. Sept 20 at 10:30 at Southern Junction in Rockwall. $16.50 – $49.50.
Old 97’s. Sept 21st at 8 at Sons of Hermann Hall. $20 through Star Tickets.
Slaid Cleaves. Oct 24 at 9 at Poor David’s Pub. $12.
Portal Vendors Rallying Around Standards. Vignette becomes the latest portal software developer to announce new products built on the Web Services for Remote Portlets standard 1.0. [eWEEK Technology News]
Plumtree Ships Products to Support WSRP & Proposed JSR 168 Portlet Standards. Plumtree released new software to support Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) from OASIS and the proposed final draft of the Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168) portlet standard…The Plumtree Container was designed to run on many application servers and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. www.plumtree.com [Gilbane Report News]