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8 Reasons Your Social Initiative Will Fail

The social software market is booming as companies rush to deploy software that help workers share information and communicate with colleagues, customers, and suppliers. But it's tricker to implement than you might think. Here are 8 things you need to avoid to get it right the first time. READ»

The Future Of Better-Designed Enterprise Software Starts Now

The cost of poorly designed business software is money, time, and organizational health. Let's encourage vendors to learn from the better features of consumer products like Facebook and Amazon that productivity and enjoyment can coexist.READ»

Updated Box.net Brings Facebook-Like Features to the Office

The tools you use at the office are increasingly going to look and feel like the ones you use in your personal life.READ»

The Ultimate Showdown of Open Source Web CMS

At the recent SXSW (or South by Southwest Conference), they recently held “the ultimate open source CMS showdown.” The format of the event was patterned after “Project Runway” and “The Iron Chef” reality shows where three teams of all-star Web developers were asked to build a Web site in each of their chosen platforms using a single design concept (in this case provided by the award winning Mark Boulton Design studios) and project specification (a fictional nonprofit). Participants came from the camps of three of the best known and most widely used open source CMS projects out there: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress.READ»

Making Money in Open Source

The folks over at Pingdom in their Royal Pingdom Blog have collected the financial information of some of the most popular open source software companies.READ»

Survive (and Thrive!) During these Tough Times with Open Source

Many business executives are looking for more ways to cut costs during these tough times and have a mandate to "do more with less." Open source software fits the bill perfectly as it has little or no upfront costs, licensing flexibility (often times you can install on as many PCs you want and for as much users as you need) , development flexibility (the source code and APIs can be customized, the platform and toolkits are readily available), and the fact that many open source projects actually have better and larger support communities than proprietary products.READ»

Open Source Gaining Ground in Southeast Asia

Read some posts, news items and press releases today about the growing adoption of open source in Southeast Asia:READ»

Exonovation: Leveraging the Innovation of Others

A few weeks back I was invited to attend an executive briefing on open, collaborative, community-based innovation. The speaker was Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat. He titled his talk "Exonovation," to avoid the connotation the word "innovation", he says, has with internal organizational efforts at innovation. In his talk-he showed how organizations today (including his own company) are able to leverage the innovation of others to create sustainable competitive advantage that benefits not only themselves, but their community and industry ecosystem as a whole as well.READ»