Enterprise 2.0

Web2.0 Collaboration and Knowledge Management Technologies in Global Software Development

By Fayez Alqahtani A study conducted by Alexander Benlian and Thomas Hess (2008) titled “The Adoption of and Satisfaction with Web2.0 Based Collaboration and Knowledge Management Technologies in Global Software Development – Insights from an Empirical” will be reviewed in this post. According to this paper several Web 2.0 tools started to be adopted in organisation. Web 2.0 technologies are suitable platforms for collaboration and knowledge management.  It has been started to be used parti...

Social Bookmarking within Enterprises

By Fayez alqahtani In the internet the most well-known approach to remember and retrieve interested information to users is bookmarking. This feature allow users to access their favourites from any computer, not only that but also they can share their bookmarks with other users. The use of social bookmarking website on the internet by organisation is problematic. Therefore, it is critical to investigate that if the enterprises will benefit from using social bookmarking system or not. “Doge...

Computer Supported Collaboration Work 2.0

By Fayez alqahtani Computer Supported Collaboration Work (CSCW) has been used to enhance the collaboration effort in organisations. However, CSCW use is bounded by the organisational border and support a centralised collaboration fashion. Consequently, collaboration become in one direction from top of the organisation to the bottom; and this yield in poor knowledge sharing. On the other hand, the emerging internet technology (web 2.0) started to be used in the organisational context and grant...

Google Docs and Collaboration

Web 2.0 potential technology for organisations

By Fayez Alqahtani Web 2.0 technology has become an important phenomena and many users around the world use it in their personal life. It is the social software that can be used to organize store tag and send information on the internet. There are attempt to use this technology in the business context, however its role in this context need to be defined and current business initiatives regarding web 2.0 technology need to be analysed in order to explore the issue of implementing web 2.0 in th...

A review of “Weblogging: A study of social computing and its impact on organizations”

By Fayez Alqahtani Rachael Kwai Fun IP and Christian Wagner wrote a paper for the Decision Support Systems journal on 2008 about how social computing tools like blogs could have an impact on organizations. In this post I am going to review and summaries this paper Social software like web logging is now driving the spread of virtual communities, especially among young people. Web logs and other social computing software may have increasing impact on organizational computing. Therefore, the...

Web 2.0 and Business a pointer to the intranets of the future: Critical review

By Fayez Alqahtni This post is a review of article titled “Web 2.0 and Business a pointer to the intranets of the future” by Mr. Luke Tredinnick. Web 2.0 has been one of the most World Wide Web topics.  It promises more user engagement and interaction with information resources. Even though, there is an argument that says Web 2.0 is not a technological innovation, it changes the status of information, and knowledge, and user interact with the information applications. Therefore, it is importa...

How some criticize the use of web 2.0 in organisations

By fayez Alqahtani Latest web technology called Web 2.0 has potential use in the public as well as in business. This technology can be used in organisations as a platform for communication and collaboration. Web 2.0 benefits enterprises. However some people have different opinion. They said that the use of web 2.0 in organisation introduces some issues and drawbacks.  The social aspect of Web 2.0 makes it an important item in not only in people’s private lives but also at work. Besides tha...

Share point challenges

By fayez Alqahtani Alex_Manchester twitted “54.2% of survey respondents say managing content on SharePoint collaboration sites is a 'tremendous challenge” and this according to the IDC report issued in October about SharePoint. I asked him about the causes of this difficulties if it is organisational, technological or people issues. He replied “It's all of those things. It's the unmetered growth, the complete loss of control. Nobody is sure what to do!”. I think he is right, I read a Gartner ...

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