Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

As I’ve mentioned numerous times before, Web 2.0 technologies are of great interest to me because of the potential I see to amplify communication, collaboration and business processes in general. I’ve been working on the creation of a social layer on top of ITIL service management right now, and almost daily I’m seeing other applications [...]

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I have a strong interest in Social Networking Sites because I see enormous potential for positive change and productive collaboration across all dimensions of the social grid. I just wish I didn’t have to use so darn many of them at the same time. If you’re a participant (or a “joiner,” to use the vernacular [...]

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This comes by way of Espen Anderson’s blog: http://www.espen.com/archives/2008/03/email_vs_wiki.html and (From Chris Rasmussen via Anthony Williams. Per my earlier posts on email technology’s fit for today’s business processes, I think this diagram presents a very clear argument on its own.

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I am firmly in the camp that sees email as an outdated technology, and one for which the utility for current day business processes is waning at best.  I have seen commentary from the Web 2.0 community saying similar things, but I decided to send an unsolicited query out into cyberspace to see how broadly [...]

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I lead into this discussion using the well known adage that says, “Which came first- The chicken or the egg?”  Granted, it’s a bit trite, but many a glass of wine has been tossed back over discussions about cause, effect, cause. Recent developments in physics are re-confirming what has been told by ancient metaphysics for [...]

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One day, while updating my myriad of profiles on the Electronic Social Networking sites that I use, I stepped back and recognized what an odd problem this is that I have to manage content on several different sites just because I use different ESNs for different purposes. Since I’m one person that lives in several [...]

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Electronic Social Networks are something in which I have a very strong interest. Popular examples of what I’m referring to as an “ESN” are LinkedIn, Plaxo, MySpace, et. al. I’ve been a user of several of these (and one in particular) for quite some time. As new ESN’s have emerged over the years, I’ve been [...]

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