Live data gathered from real enterprise networks shows major presence of Twitter, Facebook, SharePoint raises security concerns It's not just all talk: Social networking and collaborative applications are well-entrenched in enterprise networks around the globe, according to a new report that draws from real network data in more than 200 organizations. Nearly 40 percent of the 651 applications found on the networks covered in the report are Web-based, collaborative-type apps, such as social networking, blogging, and Wikis. SharePoint, Facebook, Twitter, and blogging all experienced double- and triple-digit increases in frequency of their usage in an organization. And more than 70 percent of these applications are browser-based, according to Palo Alto's findings, which were gathered from organizations in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, government, retail, and education between March and September of this year. "There are business benefits to the use of these apps.
Forward thinking « Computing for Sustainability 1. The world we live in: As a society we have to learn to live in a complex world of interdependent systems with high uncertainties and multiple legitimate interests. These complex and evolving systems require a new way of thinking about risk, uncertainty, ambiguity and ignorance. These systems require that we can think simultaneously of drivers and impacts of our actions across scales and barriers of space, time, culture, species and disciplinary boundaries. This means we need to focus on: - Systems thinking - An understanding of the connected nature of our socio-ecological system - Critical and creative thinking - Ability to act as change agent - Understanding of ethics - Sense of participation and action Sustainability should not be seen as an department and should not be confused with green, or with “about the environment”. 2. Tell me when you stop agreeing with these statements: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 3. Policy Statement on Computing Education for Sustainability The subsequent agenda starts:
Enterprise Mashups in Major Transition Anthony J. Bradley GVP 3 years at Gartner19 years in IT Anthony J. Bradley is a group vice president in Gartner Research, managing teams that cover business process management, project and portfolio management, enterprise architecture, IT procurement, IT sourcing, and vendor management. Coverage Areas: by Anthony J. Back in 2007 and early 2008 I anticipated a rapid rate of enterprise mashup adoption. Then the economic downturn hit us hard. Then a shift in the need began. This new use case is now rippling through the enterprise mashup technology sector. I still believe that end user empowerment is the nirvana for enterprise mashups. Category: Uncategorized Tags:
DataArt - Weyeser Explorer Weyeser Explorer Weyeser Explorer - Obama 2010 This version of Weyeser Explorer here allows you to interact with the Cluster analysis of Guardian articles about 'Obama' from 2010. The visualisation presents all Guardian Open Platform search results for ‘Obama’ in 2010. The stories are represented by dots, and laid out in clusters according to how related they are to each other. Clusters that are more closely related are also positioned closer together, so ‘muslim, centre, protest’ with stories about the ground zero protests is close to ‘quida, bomb, terrorism’ and ‘intelligence, attack, terrorism’. When you click on an annotation the stories that most relate to the keywords are highlighted, and listed on the right. The cluster map and annotations were produced by Weyeser who specialise in clustering and classifying text documents. Weyeser Explorer // Instructions // Articles clustered around - Intelligence, Attack and Terrorism Articles clustered around - Wikileaks, Cable and Documents
What IF We Redefined Influence? The New Influence Factor in Soci The role of influence is changing and diversifying and with it, the rules and responsibilities of engagement are also reshaping. While PR, analyst, and investor relations were clear yesterday, the rise of new influencers , tastemakers and authoritative users and customers becomes both pervasive and uncertain. As such, new opportunities for engagement emerge; creating new opportunities for cultivating distributed relationships. However, each new connection requires management, a support infrastructure, including a dedicated host. The democratization of content production, publishing and distribution has extended the authoritative legacy of existing experts (media, analysts, pundits, online reporters) and also paved the way for a new genre of savants to join the fray. Suddenly pundits were sharing opinions, observations, and experiences that directly aligned with the greater markets they represented. Redefining Influence A Hybrid of Influence Converges Influence Knows No Bounds
The Future of Water & Waste PHASE 2 - SaaS Provider Puts Lotus Products to Work for SMB HONOLULU--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PHASE 2 International (www.phase2.com) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with IBM to begin hosting the Lotus Software Suite under the PHASE 2 SaaS model. The new offering consists of the IBM®/Lotus® business collaboration suite: Lotus Notes - enterprise email messaging, Lotus Sametime – secure instant messaging, Lotus Quickr - collaborative document sharing, and Lotus Connections - secure corporate social network. “Our business is efficiency—providing small and mid-sized organizations affordable access to the same sophisticated software solutions used by Fortune 500 companies.” The software will be offered through PHASE 2’s easy to use and cost-effective SaaS model. Under the model, licensing costs are based solely on monthly usage and there are no upfront costs or contract requirements. For more information on the on demand version of the Lotus suite, please visit www.phase2.com/lotus. About PHASE 2 International
Fluid Fractal Organism Statement Having participated in the development of the Polytopia Project since its outset here on SpaceCollective, my primary focus and passion has been to make inroads into conceptualizing, innovating and developing the tools/interfaces/utlities/system architectures that facilitate and contribute to the emergence of a polytopian mind habitat. Together with Gavin Keech (@gavinkeech), Gunther Sonnenfeld (@goonth), Brendan Howley (@brendanhowley) and our selfs (@notthisbody), we have formed an entity called ThinkState - a creative innovation consultancy that is building UBIQUID.US - values-driven creative tools for the collaborative economy. With awareness of inspiration stemming from the Polytopia Project within all of us involved, we wish to publish the statement below, contributed to be each of us, assembled based on our shared affinities and values. These core characteristics and principles are strongly inspired from the Polytopia presentation and map that were created in November 2010. Signed,
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Design Thinking > Collaboration – Memetic Cartography About Metamaps.cc Metamaps.cc is a free and open source web platform for changemakers, innovators, educators and students. It enables individuals and communities to build and visualize their shared knowledge and unlock their collective intelligence. We're creating tools to help connect people, resources and ideas with rich detail and weave those relationships into actionable insights and stories. The platform is evolving for a range of applications amidst a growing network of designers, developers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and artists. Metamaps.cc is created and maintained by a distributed, nomadic community comprised of technologists, artists and storytellers. Quick Reference Guide Topics Add New Topic: Double-click on canvas Select Metacode: Scroll on spinner, or Tab / Shift+Tab Creating New Topic: Hit Enter after typing topic name Get Existing Topic: Click on (or use Up/Down->Enter) to pick from auto-suggestions Open Topic Card: Double-click on topic icon Navigation Synapses Selection