collaboration

Website Goals and Community Management

Posted on Sat, Dec 31, 2011 09:09 by chris.brown

It seems that everyone is implementing a Enterprise 2.0/Social Business/Social Media tool inside the enterprise these days. Generally these tools are being implemented to enable better collaboration across the organization or, to be cynical, to be hip to the latest IT trend because of Gen-Y’s entrance into the work force. In the time honored tradition of the “If you build it they will come” IT attitude, IT departments are implementing tools without considering how users will interact with them.

Change Mangagement with a Radical Site Redesign

Posted on Fri, Dec 30, 2011 15:53 by chris.brown

The past couple of months have been exciting for the team connected with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s GlobalNET project. We have launched a number of different centers on the new platform, and so far response to the new system has been positive. This has been a large milestone that has taken us a year of hard work to accomplish. Our biggest challenge in going live was helping existing users make the transition from the old system to GlobalNET.

CompuCom-led executive forum identifies operational efficiency and cloud computing as top issues for CIOs in 2012 [Oct 27, 2011]

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CompuCom Systems, Inc., the leading IT outsourcing specialist, hosted a three-day forum with 25 executives from IT organizations across vertical markets. Jay Batson, Acquia VP and Co-Founder, explored how social collaboration brings together businesses, partners, and clients, assists with recruiting, and facilitates ideation during a panel discussion at the event.

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Using Enterprise 2.0 to Collaborate Around the World

Posted on Fri, May 20, 2011 15:20 by chris.brown

Acquia, along with our partners Merlin International, Navigation Arts, Forum One Communications, and VML, is currently working with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) in the Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver a collaboration platform based on the latest Enterprise 2.0 concepts. The new platform is in support of two Initiatives at the DSCA: Partnership for Peace Information Management System (PIMS) and the Regional International Outreach (RIO) program. “The Partnership for Peace (PfP) is a major NATO initiative introduced in January 1994.

Using OpenScholar for Collaborative Research

Posted on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 11:19 by alindahl

Open source is not only a growing movement in the software industry. Open source philosophies are being adopted in many other verticals such as education, government, and scientific research. One recent example is in collaborative drug research.

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The "New" New Way to Innovate on McKinsey's Technology Trends

Posted on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 11:09 by Tom Erickson

McKinsey’s latest quarterly includes an updated list of top technology trends to watch. The list was first published over two years ago and described eight tech-business trends that were reshaping strategy across industries. Since then, the social web has exploded, creating a quandary for executives on “how to help their companies capitalize on the transformation under way.”