Yesterday I tweeted (@carlfrappaolo) about a Boston Globe article on ECM search company, Endeca. I was going to let it go at that; congratulations Endeca for getting the attention of the Sunday Globe and for having the popular press cover the fact that search is more than just findability and Google, that search can be [...]
OK, I admit it. I do not spend all my weekends sitting around thinking deep ECM and KM thoughts. I enjoy hanging out with the kids and indulging in some mindless TV watching. Its amazing though how the KM/ECM geek in me will sometimes connect the two – mindless TV and ECM/KM that is.
Last night [...]
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase ” The medium is the message.” I have often quoted McLuhan in my writings and presentations, in agreement. But, I fear far too many take his message the wrong way, which can and has lead to serious repercussions.
Yesterday I was watching to a video podcast interview between two [...]
More than once I have blogged on the emergence of ECM as a specialized obscure practice within techno-geeks into the limelight of critical business applications. In my last blog post (“ECM It was the Best of Times, it Was the Worst of Times) I discussed how according to popular news sources, ECM was responsible for [...]
Those that know me, as well as loyal readers of this blog, know that I am an ECM zealot – some say a nerd. So perhaps this post is just another ranting – but I felt compelled to reiterate myself because of certain current events.
I entitle this post with a familiar quote from Charles Dickens’ [...]
ECM service providers are always at the ready to ride the coattails of the latest business trend. Do you recall the rush to Knowledge Management circa 1998? Suddenly every ECM vendor was a KM solution provider. For some it was a good move. For others not so much. Perhaps even more [...]
There is a phenomenon in the content management world called SharePoint, which, like it or not, has really changed the level of awareness of electronic content concerns in businesses today.
While SharePoint has nearly made content management a commonplace term in organizations, it’s not as though SharePoint or any other solution is perfect.
To a certain degree, [...]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert):
Today OpenText announced plans to acquire Vignette. (See press release.)
On one hand this move makes sense. OpenText has clearly been on a growth through acquisition strategy, and this move is aligned with that. As I blogged about last January, Tom Jenkins, OpenText Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chairman, [...]
This is it – the final post containing questions from the SharePoint webinar I presented on January 28, 2009. Previous questions and answers can be found in Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. As well, the recorded webinar, during which many questions were answered, can be downloaded.
The questions in this post are the most [...]
This is the fifth post in which I provide answers to questions that were posed, but not answered during the webinar I conducted on SharePoint. (See Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 for additional questions and answers. You may also listen to the recorded webinar, during which many other questions were addressed as well.)
This post [...]
