Category: Collective Web

Interview with a content management heretic: Ovum’s Alan Pelz-Sharpe wonders: just how fancy does your Web content management system really need to be?

ComputerWorld: Engaging Users: “Getting end-user input on application development isn’t enough. IT project teams need to gain user interest from the start and keep them engaged.” Check the list of 10 commandments!

Downunder is a new site I just set up for a group of e-government people in Sweden. It’s closed to the public. I use Drupal. Does anyone use Drupal or other weblogstyle systems in government?

to run a stalwart news site! OJR: Content Management for the Masses.

This summer calls for the return of me as a reseracher. I will spend a number of weeks working in London together with Stephen Coleman at Hansard Society and London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). I’ll also be going to California this summer, invited by Pacific Council on International Policy to speak at a meeting. I hope to catch up with Etienne while I’m there. I want to talk with him about eCoPs.
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Grassroots KM through blogging is a very interesting article about “experiences with a strategy and technology so simple in design, that it could present the next wave of grassroots KM implementations. We are talking of the “storytelling” as the killer strategy, and “blogs” as the killer technology. Both of them share one common ground: grassroots interaction.”

Etienne Wenger’s survey Supporting communities of practice is an interesting read. Well worth byuing, if you have lots of money …
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Things come, things go. Third Voice took the First Exit.

Dear Third Voice users,
As of April 2, 2001, we are no longer supporting the consumer version of the our search and annotation tools. Thanks for your support these past few years. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Third Voice team

The consumer-focused application for attaching “sticky notes” to Web pages wasn’t making money. Is web annotation dead?
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Brian McGinty’s Web Logs: Static Web pages That Now Grow, Evolve, and Defend Against Attack is an interesting read. “You’re working up your crew psychology report?”
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The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey Three dozen community foundations, other funders, and the Saguaro Seminar of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University joined together to ask these questions of nearly 30,000 people in the largest-ever survey on the civic engagement of Americans.