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    Posted on December 16th, 2008

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Preditions — CM

    Interesting to see that CMS Watch is using different modes to convey their 12 predictions about the content management landscape — an article and a YouTube production — which notes significant changes for 2009 according to their research: “Obviously the economic slump will continue to influence buyers and vendors,” observed CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne, [...]

  • Conferences

    Posted on December 4th, 2008

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Business View of Social Media

    Nora Ganim Barnes, Chancellor Professor of Marketing & Director, Center for Marketing Research, University of Massachusetts talked at the Gilbane conference about a recent social media study of Inc. 500 companies.  Interesting stats based on familiarity and use of six forms of social media — blogging, message/bulletin boards, online video, social networking, podcasting, wikis.  In [...]

  • Blog Posts

    Posted on December 4th, 2008

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Yahoo! Research on Search

    Opening keynote speaker at Gilbane‘s conference (Where Content Management Meets Social Media), Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Research for Yahoo! was the former CTO of Verity (now part of Autonomy), and a scientist at IBM’s Almaden Labs. He now runs the labs for Yahoo! with 300 scientists around the world, and also heads the search strategy [...]

  • Conferences

    Posted on December 2nd, 2008

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    Future of the Internet

    Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project, was kind enough to send me a copy of a new book that he and Associate Director Susannah Fox put together with Janna Quitney Anderson, Associate Professor, Elon University’s School of Communications & Director of the Imagining the Internet Center.  The book is called Up for [...]

  • Conferences

    Posted on December 1st, 2008

    Written by Jane Dysart

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    KM & Enterprise 2.0

    Just read an advance copy of Information Advisor‘s KM supplement, Dec 2008 written by Robert Berkman and published by Information Today.  I got really excited reading the discussions around using knowledge in the enterprise and how the new Web 2.0 tools are enabling better participation.  Loved the interview with consultant, author & professor Tom Davenport [...]