Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware has been awarded a 2010 Bossie award (Best of Open Source Software) by InfoWorld, in the Applications category. InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software Awards (aka the Bossies) is chosen annually by Test Center editors and reviewers, and recognize the best open source software for business users. The editors called Tiki "a powerful, integrated, Web-based application" that can "build and maintain websites, wikis, groupware, CMSes, forums, blogs, and bug trackers, as well as make them multilingual." The review continues, citing Tiki's "fine-grained role-based privilege system" as a differentiating factor against classic wiki models, such as MediaWiki. Read the full [ more ]

Auctori:city, a web content management system designed for municipalities and built for SEO, is a sponsor of the National Association of Government Webmasters (NAGW) National Conference which will be held at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri September 22-24, 2010. A silo of the search engine optimization friendly web content management system, Auctori, an innovation of Unidev, the Auctori:city solution provides cities with the opportunity to strengthen their Internet presence and their overall brand reputation by giving users a professional city website design and the power to maintain their web content in real-time. “We are looking forward to attending this highly [ more ]

Here are my AppGap posts for August. I am also writing in another Corante blog, FastForward (see right side bar for links), The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008.  Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. Below are the ones for August. There will be more in September. PBworks Offers Collaborative CRM EchoSign Brings Multi-Language Support to e-Signatures Cisco Successfully Concludes Second I-Prize Competition Spigit Provides Version S3 as Market Matures for Idea and Innovation Management RightNow Adds Enhanced Mobile Connections to its Customer Experience Suite Perfect Search Addresses Major Issues in Enterprise Back [ more ]

In early 2009, Skype launched the beta of Skype for SIP, its enterprise-focused offering that connects Skype to IP-PBX or Unified Communications (UC) systems. Is this the party to whom I am speaking? 18 months later, Skype Connect (née Skype for SIP) moved out of beta after a long gestation period, and we sat down with David Gurlé, general manager and vice president of the Skype for Business unit, to find out what had changed and what the company learnt during the beta period. Since this is Skype’s foray into enterprise sales, we weren’t surprised that this has been a learning experience.  Compared to 18 months ago, the company now has a better understanding of the [ more ]

I don’t have the strength To get up and take another shot And my best friend, my doctor Won’t even say what it is I’ve got - JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S BLUES Gather round, children. Let me tell you about my Dad. He’s a wonderful, smart man. He taught me to play chess when I was 3. He is also an orthopaedic surgeon, which means he fixes broken bones and things. He comes from a long line of doctors, which I broke when I turned out to be a computer geek. He worked for many many many years in government hospitals until, about ten years ago, he moved from the operating theatre to the courtrooms, working in the medico-legal world. Here is how it works. Someone gets [ more ]

I'm not much of a programmer but I can appreciate the value of a good programming language when I see it. While I know Python and dabble with PHP, I've always appreciated Ruby and Ruby on Rails. There is something about the Ruby development scene that perks my interest in this programming language. Ruby on Rails 3.0 was just released this week. The development of Rails 3.0 has been two years in the making. David August writes: Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful. Some of the [ more ]

The Forum Corporation blog offers some excellent content on such topics as learning, leadership, collaboration, enhancing customer experiences, and accelerating strategic execution. It is a collaborative effort by a number of the Forum team members. The Forum Corporation began in 1971 and it “helps senior leaders execute innovative, people-driven solutions that accelerate business growth, corporate change and overall performance.” I have known and respected Forum for some time as I competed against them in the 1980s when I was with Spectrum. See my post, Useful Guidelines and Metrics for Speeding Up Your Organization, for a review of their recent book, Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, [ more ]

Last week, I attended two conferences in Delhi. Coincidentally, both of them were on similar topics. The first one, organized by Indian trade body, NASSCOM was about mobile Internet and appstores, while the second one was about mobile applications [ more ]

Peter Hambling, CIO of Lloyd's of London, the venerable insurer, has made Facebook a priority for customer communications that required board approval. But more on that later. First, some background . . . It's the nature of things. Some people look for ways to do things better -- and that includes your employees. Some of your employees are questing for a better way to get things done. If there's a better way out there, they'll find it. That's a good thing because the thing they're trying to do better is their job. Serve your customers. Solve your business problems. Improve your operations. It's always been true: Incremental innovation and process improvements have [ more ]

At LEGO they have taken web analytics a step further than most organisations by aligning it with the business objectives. This was the message I received, when talking to Gbemi Petersen, Manager of the Process & Online Intelligence team at LEGO in Billund in Denmark. Her team has worked actively on spreading the insights they collect to the entire organisation. The ambition is to work smarter and to allow the business units to make more informed decisions. Where most organisations find limited use of their numbers e.g. to encourage editors or to justify the costs of their work to managers, LEGO wants to make web analytics a key part of business development. To accomplish this, Gbemi and [ more ]