Yahoo, Dotcoms Outpace Traditional Giants in Info Market. : Cut through the PR etc, and this has some interesting results: Yahoo and other more nimble upstarts are beating the traditional giants of information content industry at their own game, according to the new research by Outsell. Upstarts like… [PaidContent.org]
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Jake reports [1] that Trackback…
Jake reports that Trackback for Radio is now released. [Scripting News]
Klognets give faster payback than…
Klognets give faster payback than tradtional Intranet portals. John Robb asks: Can blogs can replace portals? If so, what are the relative costs, benefits, ROI? His answers (and I concur): Yes for everything except “adding a web front end to business apps” Blogs look better: Costs: $142 vs. $807 per desktop (Costs 82% less) Benefits: $1,658 vs. $1,886 per desktop…
The Blogging Process. [1].
The Blogging Process.. Dave Pollard decomposes a day in the life of an active blogger. Very focused. Much more than this flowchart. I’m going to read it twice. While the act of posting is trivial, the other behaviors surrounding it are not. This is a great improvement over similar work written in 2001. [a klog apart]
Machine Blogging: Microsoft SharePoint to…
Machine Blogging: Microsoft SharePoint to intranet RSS.. The folks at NewsGator share a case study. Triple Point Technology has transformed the way they share information within the enterprise. From critical build and release notifications, to internal publishing and collaboration, publishing via RSS has dramatically changed their information landscape. Michael Sippey summarizes: It’s not really about weblogs at all, rather it’s about how…
Knowledge is power: KM remains…
Knowledge is power: KM remains vital to firm success. Nina Platt has written up the results of a recent informal survey of knowledge management in law firms. To quote: Knowledge management became a buzzword in law firms throughout the world in the 1990s. As firms learned how acquiring and… [Column Two]
ROI calculations: K-Logs vs. traditional…
ROI calculations: K-Logs vs. traditional Intranet Portals. John Robb has written a weblog entry that compares the ROI of enterprise portals and k-logs (k-logs are weblogs used inside an organisation). In it, he finds that k-logs provide similar benefits at a fraction of the cost. What is… [Column Two]
K-Log productivity: Time to find…
K-Log productivity: Time to find and availability. John Robb has written another weblog entry on K-log metrics (k-logs are “knowledge weblogs”). This one focuses on the time taken to find information in an organisation. To quote: An oft quoted statistic is that “knowledge workers spend 35% of… [Column Two]
Cheap Backup [1].
Cheap Backup. I do fairly regular backups from my server to tape, but I normally carry around most of my documents on my laptop as well. Copying them to the server is a pain, since many of them havn’t changed and the Windows GUI doesn’t have an easy way to copy just the updated ones (and please don’t suggest the…
Speaking of backups, Radio [1]…
Speaking of backups, Radio also has a way to make sure you don’t loose your weblog. Stop by http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=2.16 and take a look. I keep the first box, “Check this box to have Radio back up new or changed data every night” checked and have the location set to a directory inside the afore-mentioned “My Documents” folder. That way I…