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Teamwork, But Less Technology

Teamwork, But Less Technology

Mid-tier firms don’t use collaboration tools as much as larger companies do. Is that wise?

Small and growing businesses are not technology laggards. Mid-tier companies are more likely than large companies to be early and midstream technology adopters, and they are increasing IT spending faster, according to past CIO Insight surveys.

Fascinating article which looks at the differences in IT use between large and small/medium firms. If you look at the chart there are differences across the board, but the largest differences appear to be in specific collaborative technologies. The article speculates why this might be the case, but it would be useful to dig a bit deeper into how the large companies are using these technologies. What are the demographics that are different? Are the companies more productive or less when they use these technologies. On chart is particularly interesting:

25 March, 2008 | No comments

India, IBM Set Out To Build Billion-Person Web Portal

India, IBM Set Out To Build Billion-Person Web Portal - Outsourcing News by InformationWeek

In a country with more than 1 billion people, public infrastructure projects tend to come in two sizes: large and frighteningly large. India’s e-government initiatives are no exception. With help from IBM, the country’s central government last week unveiled ambitious plans to build a Web portal for citizens to access thousands of services, ranging from business permits to housing subsidies and tax advice.

It’s pretty amzing really, I was reading over at a friends page about developments in Africa and have cell phones are making an impact. Technology has evolved to such a point that if we can get around governmental bloackades we can see substantial imrovements in developing countries very quickly. That’s very exciting!

11 October, 2006 | No comments

Pageflakes - The whole Web at your Fingertips!

Pageflakes - The whole Web at your Fingertips!

Now I don’t know if this will catch on, but this is one very cool internet portal. If the technology can be ported to the organization they have a real winner! Check it out.

22 March, 2006 | No comments

What Portals Should Be

What Portals Should Be

All of which makes me wonder if this couldn’t be the future of intranet portals. I suppose the business behind PageFlakes could be convinced to sell their backend to a company for internal use (if that’s not already their business model). I honestly have no idea how long it would take to produce flakes for internal data (e.g., inventory numbers, etc.). I also don’t know how practical it would be to create RSS feeds for much of that data. Could an RSS feed stay updated with information from a sales database? If so, the Ajax approach to portals applied by PageFlakes could signify a quicker, cheaper approach to traditional portals like Plumtree.

Pretty interesting commentary and interesting thoughts. As I played with some Yahoo! Gadgets the other day I wondered about how they might be used on a larger sale, and this is the same concept. If some basic frameworks can be created and standaradization (such as XML) emerges, we could see the growth of portals all over the place. Then there will be true power in portals.

22 March, 2006 | No comments

Yahoo! Braces For Google - Forbes.com

Yahoo! Braces For Google - Forbes.com

But there might be another finance site drawing traffic soon: Google (nasdaq: GOOG) is reportedly creating its own version of a finance destination to tap into the endless fascination that people have with money.

Interesting article about how Google might challenge Yahoo! in some content areas. In addition the possibility of blogs at Yahoo! is discussed.

20 March, 2006 | No comments

Great Blog on Portals and KM

Bill Ives on Portals and KM

This blog shares ideas and hopes to generate discussion on the use of portals, blogs, and knowledge management to provide value to organizations through practical applications. New trends and technologies are covered with a switch to art, music, travel, and food on the weekends.

I just stumbled across this great blog by Bill Ives. What I love about his blog is that it deals with similar topics, but from a different perspective. His commentaries are excellent and worth reading. Readers on DS might want to vist his blog as well…I know I will

16 March, 2006 | No comments

The IRS Portal

PortalsMag.com: The IRS Portal

Dealing with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States has gotten a whole lot easier over the past few years. That’s because, like other government organizations — notably the United States Postal Service (USPS) — the IRS has dedicated itself to providing a painless online experience to the tens of millions of taxpayers, businesses, and researchers it serves on an ongoing basis.

We all know that Portals can be of huge benefit for government entities. This article examines the IRS portal and how it improves digital stakeholder relations….now if it could just lower my taxes

12 January, 2006 | No comments

Portal Generates Revenue

PortalsMag.com: Portal Generates Revenue

The portal (a combination of IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM partner Bowstreet’s Portlet Factory) saves each of Ball Memorial’s 50 employed physicians 15 minutes a day, meaning the scheduling of an additional patient per physician per day. That represents $60,000 a month in additional revenue, or $720,000 a year.

It is great to see someone actually quantify the savings that these new stakeholder technologies create. We know they make things “better” but exactly how much remains an elusive question.

16 November, 2005 | No comments

Looking out for Yahoo / CEO pooh-poohs Google, defends his firm’s policies in China

Looking out for Yahoo / CEO pooh-poohs Google, defends his firm’s policies in China

Terry Semel, Yahoo Inc.’s chief executive, fired a few salvos at high-flying Google Inc. Thursday, saying the rival Internet company has a scattered strategy and an array of products whose popularity lags behind those of his own Web portal.

“So far, they don’t seem to have a plan, but maybe they do,” Semel said of Google at the Web 2.0 Internet conference in San Francisco. “Maybe magic will happen tomorrow.”

I agree with Yahoo!’s assessment of Google, however Wall Street seems to disagree. From the purchases the Google has made it appears that they are living in the 90’s where cash was flowing freely and businesses did not think they needed a strategy….Michael Porter wrote a great article about this and eventually it became apparent that strategy did matter. The article also provides some insights into the future for digital stakeholders.

10 October, 2005 | No comments

First Search Service With TV-Like Video Isn’t Google, Yahoo

First Search Service With TV-Like Video Isn’t Google, Yahoo: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Video search is rapidly emerging, but nothing quite like this has appeared.

Earlier this year, Blinkx launched a less ambitious searchable index for finding video clips online. Privately held Blinkx has been widely rumored to be a takeover target of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

The “little guy” is still more nimble than even the most innovative big guy. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

3 October, 2005 | No comments

Google streams sitcom premiere

MercuryNews.com | 09/27/2005 | Google streams sitcom premiere

Google unveiled its first significant partnership with a television network Monday, a deal that allows it to show the entire first episode of UPN’s sitcom “Everybody Hates Chris” on its Web site.

The move is more familiar to online portals such as Yahoo and AOL. And it hints at what might be yet to come from the Mountain View technology giant, which wants to maximize the amount of the world’s video that is searchable.

Now this one is interesting and I must say I agree with the author that this sounds much more like AOL or even MSN than Google, but then again Google is clearly trying to take over their markets as well.

30 September, 2005 | No comments

China Tightens Its Restrictions for News Media on the Internet

China Tightens Its Restrictions for News Media on the Internet - New York Times

Major search engines and portals like Sina.com and Sohu.com, used by millions of Chinese each day, must stop posting their own commentary articles and instead make available only opinion pieces generated by government-controlled newspapers and news agencies, the regulations stipulate.

Clearly a very different culture and most American’s will have no clue how to take this one. It presents some serious challenges for evolving digital stakeholder models in China. In many ways it might hinder the actual growth of the internet.

27 September, 2005 | No comments

Birth of the Business Blog

Line56.com: Birth of the Business Blog

What looked like a business on the fringes 21 years ago is now mainstream. The same can be said of a technology combination that Stonyfield and other companies are increasingly turning to: portals and blogs. Once the arena of technology purists who used the tool as a way to quickly share new ideas and solicit feedback and angst-ridden teens whose posting ambitions were confined to true confessions, blogs are coming to be accepted by businesses for everything from external marketing to low-cost content management systems that can power employee intranets or portals (see “Big-Time Blogging” on p. 32 for more information on how blogging technology works).

Great case study how technology (blogs & portals) have impacted a traditional company allowing it to better interact with its digital stakeholders.

27 September, 2005 | No comments

Online, but under the radar - Hurricanes’ Archive Section - MSNBC.com

Online, but under the radar - Hurricanes’ Archive Section - MSNBC.com

Unprecedented numbers of people are flocking to the Internet in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the emergence of Hurricane Rita, but visitors to the government’s online gateway for weather news may have to do some hunting to find what they’re looking for.

Earlier in the week we examined a couple of articles that positively looked at home government portals are better addressing digital stakeholders, but this article does not follow suit. Instead this article looks at the NHC and NOAA’s site to see how the goverment agency is dropping the ball big time.

24 September, 2005 | No comments

A Cooler Look at Yahoo in China

A Cooler Look at Yahoo in China

The organization is rightly outraged about what has happened to Shi. Who could support the idea of an American outfit helping to imprison a journalist in China? But the group seems to be directing most of its anger at Yahoo, and if you stop to take a look at the facts, you’ll see that the situation isn’t as simple as the critics argue.

Business Week’s take on the Yahoo! China siuation that has garnered Yahoo! a lot of negative press. Business Week gets it right in realizing that this is not as simple as people would like to believe. As the connections between digital stakeholders increase we need to watch and learn from this case.

21 September, 2005 | No comments

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