I was supposed to go to the what I think is a Google Apps roadshow this morning, but I was also supposed to be at code4lib this weeks and be doing a dozen other things that didn’t happen.
So, in lieu of that I’m reading up on the company’s first new business strategy since Adsense.
Phil Wainewright [...]

Posted March 1, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: collaboration, google, google apps, google docs, office communication. 2 Comments.

ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Future of Cataloging presentation: Collaboration, Not Competition. (slides: QuickTime & PDF.)
Stir my writings on The Google Economy and Arrival of the Stupendous post with frame four of the ALCTS And The Future Of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, And Values document:
In the realm of advanced digital applications, we are interested in collaboration, [...]

Posted January 25, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: alamw2007, alcts, collaboration, competition, future of bibliographic control, future of cataloging, google economy, midwinter, presentation. One Comment.

Peter Caputa dropped a comment on Jeff Nolan’s post about Zvents. The discussion was about how online event/calendar aggregators did business in a world where everything is rather thinly distributed. Part of the problem is answering how do you get people to contribute content — post their events — to a site that has little traffic, and how do you build traffic without content? The suggestion is that you have editorial staff scouring for content to build the database until reader contributions can catch up, and that’s where Peter comes in, suggesting that content and traffic aren’t where the value and excitement are: it’s the opportunity to involve fans in the event planning and marketing process.

Posted March 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: collaboration, commons, community, conversation, decision making, documentation, inclusion, involvement, jeff nolan, pete caputa, promotion, social calendaring, social software. Be the first one.

Drawing from John Blyberg’s ILS Customer’s Bill of Rights and
The Social Customer Manifesto, Jenny Levine offers this Online Library User Manifesto:

I want to have a say, so you need to provide mechanisms for this to happen online.  
I want to know when something is wrong, and what you’re going to do to fix it.  
I [...]

Posted January 25, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: collaboration, commons, community, conversation, future library, future of libraries, interactivity, jenny levine, libraries, library, manifesto, millennials, online library user manifesto, social software. 2 Comments.

Zach made me take another look at Zimbra, the web-based, web 2.0-smart, very social and AJAXed up collaboration, email, and calendar suite (plus some other goodies).
Go ahead, watch the Flash-based demo or kick the tires with their hosted demo. I think you’ll agree that it looks better than anything else we’ve seen yet. Part of [...]

Posted November 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ajax, calendaring, collaboration, communication, communication model, demo, email, enterprise, groupware, groupware collaboration, mail, mailboxes, spam management, unified messaging, web 2.0, zimbra. One Comment.

Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers.
It turns out that teens, and teen girls especially, are highly active online IMing, sharing photos, blogging, reading and commenting on other’s blogs, and gaming. An especially strong trend in this group is the use [...]

Posted November 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 4cs, collaboration, commons, community, conversation, interactivity, internet, jenny levine, pew internet, pew internet & american life project, pew internet project, social internet, social software, social web, teenagers, teens, youth. 4 Comments.

They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs.

tags: collaboration, collaboration technology, community needs, community, groupware, management needs, open source, oss, social software, [...]

Posted September 25, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: collaboration, collaboration technology, community, community needs, groupware, management needs, open source, oss, social software, software, zimbra, zimbra collaboration suite. 2 Comments.