social media

Live from DAMA – Re-Thinking Search in a Web 2.0 World

March 19, 2008

First session today is Jayne Dutra of NASA on Re-Thinking Search in a Web 2.0 World. Jayne started by going over some of the basics, talking about web 1.0 with portals/websites/search moving to Web 2.0 with blogs, wikis, RSS, social networking and community portals. She used a Mills Davis slide that talked about web 3.0 [...]

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Changes to the blog

March 6, 2008

I made some changes to the blog last night and this morning – sorry if you had any difficulties. Here’s what I changed:

Added “Share This” linkAllows you to share the post/page with social book marketing sites or email it to someone. Clicking on the icon creates an in-screen selection window, the link takes you to [...]

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Using EDM for ‘Long Tail’ Algorithms

February 19, 2008

I saw this post recently – “The fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic” – in which Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail) says “The short head will be human, the fat middle social and the long tail algorithmic”. This made me think some more about the role [...]

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Glib, me?

December 18, 2007

Venkat posted a comment to my post on web 2.0, social media and EDM in which he said that he “found this piece to be a little too quick/glib compared to your other pieces”. As my friends in Texas would say, “them are fightin words” so I thought a response was called for.
social media are [...]

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Web 2.0, Social Media and Decision Management

December 3, 2007

One of my favorite BI bloggers, Cyril Brookes, had an interesting post today – What Does Web 2.0 Really Mean for BI’s Future?. He starts by pointing out that “Successful BI enables the executives and professionals to make better decisions” to which I would add that successful enterprise decision management enables the systems in an [...]

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