Introducing Enterprise³

For some time now you've probably noticed our linking to a new sister blog titled Enterprise³. As we've grown from our original event of Portals, Content and Collaboration, our partners and participants have helped us to realize the unique combination of disciplines and expertise within an organization as they develop and manage a strategy for these unique tools in the enterprise. Now that we've established this corresponding blog we want to officially invite you to join us and subscribe to our feed as we shut down this PCC blog.

We’re welcoming you to our new service, Enterprise³. Companies are currently in the stage where they are releasing the second round of tools to be used in their enterprise. In the past, there has been a lot of confusion about the reasons for such functionality and this has often lead business leaders to move slowly or incorrectly as they invest and adopt in these new capabilities within their organizations. Therefore, this is a new stage in the evolution to the PCC community focused on in-depth perspective into the world of portals and collaboration within the enterprise.

As members of PCC we were focused on bringing you:

Seminars on scripted language
Workshops for developers
Intranet building 101
Out of box versus customized
Taxonomy for Taxonomists
Case Studies addressing technical failures

Now with our new focus of Enterprise³, our goal is to expand beyond these offerings and bring you:

Collaborative workshops for business users and developers
Seminars for business uses about IT agility
Business user ad customer driven portal project plans
Helping IT get ‘the buy in’ from upper business management for new tools
Social media hot topics like Second Life and Virtual Worlds seminars an dhow they apply to business users and business needs
Creating dynamic content
Aligning technology with business strategy
Portal user interface and design
Breaking the communication code between IT and business

As you've already seen, we've been building up the Enterprise³ blog with the same quality content that you find here. Beginning today, this will be our last post on this blog but you can join us on the Enterprise³ blog, where we hope you'll join us there and continue to actively participate as you have here. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at Enterprise³.

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Yahoo in serious talks with Time Warner

Earlier in the year, we reported about the possibilities that Yahoo approached Time Warner to become partners with AOL instead of being bought by Microsoft. According to a post at EWeek, that’s exactly what’s going on today. They reported that in the Wall Street Journal, the two companies were considering merging, and Yahoo would be folded into the AOL sector of Time Warner.

According to the Mercury News in the Silicon Valley, these talks have lead to the extension of time in which Yahoo is accepting nominations before the annual shareholder meeting.

We're getting ready to launch a new blog that looks at the broader issues of Enterprise 2.0, add it to your RSS feed now as we get it ready for our official launch:http://enterprise-3.blogspot.com/

The Fear of the Unknown

At The Content Economy, they recently posted about the fear that accompanied emails when they first came into existence in enterprises. Back then, bosses feared that productivity would be lost when employees spent all day emailing their family and friends. But, now, we see a common oversaturation of emails. And we have to ask ourselves if that is the best way to communicate through out the enterprise.

So much of what we focus on in this blog could be a great alternative, such as: blogs, wikis, instant messaging, web conferencing and social software. These also bring up worries and concerns about improper use of these technologies. We ignore what these tools could be used for. As the Content Economy points out, what would have happened if bosses feared employees writing poems when the word processor first came out?

We're getting ready to launch a new blog that looks at the broader issues of Enterprise 2.0, add it to your RSS feed now as we get it ready for our official launch:http://enterprise-3.blogspot.com/

Sharepoint Gets an Upgrade

Today, Microsoft is expected to announce that their new software services Search Server 2008 Express and the Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint are now available. This news came from EWeek.

Search Server 2008 is a new free service that will be available to download. The new software will include a new set of capabilities to help businesses connect wide ranges of information. Silverlight combines the interactivity of Silverlight with the next generation web applications development platforms. Silverlight BluePrint is described as:

It includes sample applications that combine Silverlight and SharePoint, detailed guidance and proven best practices, and new rich business data visualizations and interactivity.

The registered number of SharePoint users is 2,250, with many more expected to have used this software in the corporations that utilize this software. SharePoint has also crossed the $1 billion profit mark.

We're getting ready to launch a new blog that looks at the broader issues of Enterprise 2.0, add it to your RSS feed now as we get it ready for our official launch:http://enterprise-3.blogspot.com/