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1 March 2010 | Traction Software Named to KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"
For the sixth consecutive year, KMWorld recognized Traction Software's market leadership in Enterprise 2.0 Social Software by naming the company to their KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list is compiled by KMWorld's panel of KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. "We're honored by KMWorld's recognition of Traction ...
Greg Lloyd / Press558 / February 28, 2010 / 7:55 PM
26 Feb 2010 | Great Wired Magazine story on Borlaug Global Rust Initiative
Read this Wired Magazine story Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation on the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative's leadership in a global collaborative effort to combat a critical threat to the world's food supply. Fighting Ug99 wheat rust requires a global response bringing together a diverse community in the US, Africa, Europe and Asia, including plant biologists, ...
Greg Lloyd / Press552 / February 26, 2010 / 1:27 PM
Garry Kasparov on Computer Chess and Enterprise 2.0
Professor Andrew McAfee posted a very good business analysis of points made by Garry Kasparov in his Feb 11, 2010 New York Review of Books article on Diego Rasskin-Gutman's book Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind. Kasparov's summarized of his own thoughts as a Chess Grandmaster and world chess champion playing against - and losing to - IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. ...
Greg Lloyd / Blog1266 / February 19, 2010 / 2:43 PM
Doug Engelbart | 85th Birthday Jan 30, 2010
"DOUG Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, "dealing lighting with both hands." At least that's the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC computer designer who was later shown a video of the demonstration that changed the course of the computer world." from What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff Doug Engelbart has been recognized as a titanic figure in the ...
Greg Lloyd / Blog1246 / January 30, 2010 / 10:51 AM
19 January 2010 | Jack Vinson - Responsibility to collaborate - Jordan Frank
Business and KM consultant Jack Vinson follows Jim McGee's suggestion and posts his own thoughts on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank Vinson says: "The idea behind "responsibility to collaborate" is that the world of work has shifted from my value being solely about I know, though that is still important. Now it is just as important to spread the word ...
Greg Lloyd / Public1812 / January 20, 2010 / 12:15 PM
7 January 2010 | Jim McGee - Jordan Frank on ‘responsibility to collaborate’ – lessons in enterprise 2.0 implementations
New Shoreham Consulting Managing Director Jim McGee encourages readers to watch and reflect on Paula Thornton's video interview with Traction Software's Jordan Frank McGee says: "You need to develop a well-tuned design sense to take full advantage of the technologies intended to support collaborative and creative knowledge work. You need to be especially careful to avoid the temptations to ...
Greg Lloyd / Public1804 / January 8, 2010 / 12:03 PM
22 December 2009 | the{app}gap - Traction Introduces New Capabilities and Partners with Team Page 4.2
AppGap Analyst Bill Ives reviews Traction TeamPage Release 4.2 new capabilities, focusing on the Developer Release preview of Traction's Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based Proteus interface. Traction Software President Greg Lloyd demonstrated Proteus using Traction's production TeamPage server and content. Bill includes screen shots of Proteus Feed views that make it easy to scan and navigate ...
Greg Lloyd / Press542 / December 22, 2009 / 4:22 PM
Facebook: A Carnival Midway not a Neighborhood?
Oliver Marks wrote a very good post: Facebook: The Legal Rumblings Start Dec 17, 2009, on the Facebook's potential legal exposure due to its controversial changes to member privacy capabilities and settings. My comment: Oliver -- Very good followup on Facebook's awkward (to put it mildly) changes to selective privacy capabilities which were a large part of their differentiation vs Friendster ...
Greg Lloyd / Blog1232 / December 17, 2009 / 9:53 PM
3 December 2009 | Forbes.com - Andrew McAfee: What Enterprise 2.0 Really Means
MIT Center for Digital Business principle research scientist Andrew McAfee references Traction Software President Greg Lloyd's Enterprise 2.0 Schism blog post in thinking about and responding to points raised in recent Enterprise 2.0 debates. McAfee does not believe that "... E2.0's tools, approaches and philosophies making managers, hierarchies, org charts and formal cross functional ...
Greg Lloyd / Press535 / December 3, 2009 / 11:42 PM
Using Enterprise 2.0 to Get Work Done | Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog
Burton Group Analyst Larry Cannell on Traction Software President Greg Lloyd's recent blog post: "This Enterprise 2.0 perspective is about bringing to bear the resources a company has to help people make the best decisions and improving the quality of their collective work. This is language even a pragmatic business manager can understand." Cannell would like to see more coverage of ...
Greg Lloyd / Press532 / December 3, 2009 / 10:38 PM
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re: Explaining Twitter - One of Three Places for People 
Update Dec 17, 2009: Facebook's controversial ex-post facto revision of member privacy settings along with the revenue driven rise of apps like Farmville (as well as sleezy internal promotion) lead me to revisit this, see Blog1232: Facebook: A Carnival Midway not a Neighborhood?
Greg Lloyd / Blog1236 / December 17, 2009 / 10:50 PM
re: Explaining Twitter - One of Three Places for People 
Rafe WTF of the day: @Josh comes back from lunch... "I got some cat food, do you want it?" Twitter.com 4:13PM 15 Apr 2009 ... much funnier than my example, but QED.
Greg Lloyd / Blog1053 / April 15, 2009 / 10:17 PM
re: Explaining Twitter - One of Three Places for People 
Update: Steve Buttry Information Content Conductor of Gazette Communications posted an excellent tip sheet: Leading your staff into the Twitterverse for a workshop he'll be leading for the American Society of Newpaper Editors. It's an great introduction to Twitter which covers linking, following, tools and ethics. I believe Steve's advice is just as valuable for neighborhood (Facebook) and ...
Greg Lloyd / Blog1045 / April 3, 2009 / 12:31 PM
re: Kuka Systems TeamPage Case Study 
A customer story about giant orange robots - for real! How good can it get? KUKA Titan Largest and strongest 6-axis industrial robot in the world. Payload capacity: 1000 kilograms
Greg Lloyd / Blog1005 / March 14, 2009 / 10:59 PM
re: Reinventing the Web 
For an excellent first hand history of the Web - and a linked data proposal which seems to share many of the simple, scalable properties of his original invention - see Tim Berners-Lee's Feb 2009 TED Talk on the 20th anniversary of the Web: Tim Berners-Lee The next Web of open, linked data TED.com Feb 2009, Published Mar 2009 Some comments on this talk's comment thread suggest that it's ...
Greg Lloyd / Blog997 / March 14, 2009 / 2:36 PM
re: Why Software is a Good Investment 
What Jordan meant to say: Send us your money and you'll be happy and save more than you spent!
Greg Lloyd / Blog973 / February 24, 2009 / 6:37 PM
re: Ask an Engineer: What do you think of the Facebook Terms of Service Flap? 
For a good example, see Nicolas Kolakowski's Feb 20, 2009 eWeek story Facebook Launches Social Widget for Facebook Connect : "Facebook Connect allows users to sign on to other sites and blogs using their Facebook account information. Comments Box would allow these users to post comments on not only the outside Web site, but also their Facebook profiles, where they could be shared with other ...
Greg Lloyd / Blog962 / February 22, 2009 / 10:17 AM
re: Searching for the Perfect Fried Clam | Rhode Island 
For a longer list of Providence RI restaurants I like, see Providence Rhode Island Restaurants: A Local's Favorites contributed to Bill Ives' list of restaurant picks.
Greg Lloyd / Blog949 / February 17, 2009 / 3:35 PM
re: Email isn't dead - It's only sleeping ... 
In yet another conversation on "is email dead?" I settled on: No - it's just a "strange legacy idea" that's tragicomicaly inept for collaboration.
Greg Lloyd / Blog948 / February 17, 2009 / 2:50 PM
re: Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 | Forty years after the Mother of All Demos 
See Engelbart and the Dawn of Emergent Collaboration, 12/9/08 Event Video for Quicktime video highlights of the SRI event at Stanford. As the page says: "Speakers at the 2008 event included original participants in the 1968 demo and presentations on Doug Engelbart's vision to use computing to augment society's collective intellect and ability to solve the complex issues of our time."
Greg Lloyd / Blog924 / December 19, 2008 / 9:20 PM
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