Saturday, February 28, 2009

Web 2.0 goes to work for business: Enabling the power of participation

A very good case study of how IBM benefited from Web 2.0

  • Gained US$4.6 million in productivity
  • Avoided US$2.4 million in costs
  • Uncovered information worth an estimated value of US$500,000 per year.

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Monday, February 23, 2009

Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum 2009 - The State of the Nation

What’s the latest trends in enterprise Web 2.0 use and how other organizations are using them for? Check it out in State of the Nation by Ross Dawson



Ross Dawson has authored a book "Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Report which contains very good advice on how to create business value with web technologies. You can check out the table of contents and the sample chapters

Thursday, February 12, 2009

A better way of collaborating and sharing your PowerPoints

This morning, Mary Jo Foley posted a blog entry on DocVerse, a new startup started by ex-Microsoft people.  I have signed up for the beta and I am really impressed by it.


DocVerse requires you to do a simple installation for a plugin for Microsoft Office, after which you will be able to:
  1. to synchronize the PowerPoint slides with DocVerse online site
  2. share the PowerPoint with others through a url link
  3. allow people to comment on the DocVerse site and appear in your MS Powerpoint
  4. to allow a group to work on the PowerPoint and automatically keep versions of the PowerPoint
A point to note is that MS PowerPoint does not have an insert comment feature, and DocVerse is able to display the comment on the slide with arrow pointing to the picture/text related with the comment. And the best thing is that the comment does not appear during the actual slideshow.

You can check out the DocVerse site for an overview and slideshow on the features

It will be good if the plugin also allow publishing completed PowerPoint to Slideshare.

And if you want to participate in the beta, do check out the Mary's blog entry for the free invitation code for the first 100 people.