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Live from PhocusWright 2007 - Definition of Online Community

A place for people to connect around a common interest.

Jeff Hickey, Choice Hotels

Live from the PhoCusWright 2007 Expo Floor

Welcome to the CoreSpeed Community, a showcase and learning lab for branded online communities and enterprise social media. We are on the show floor today asking attendees to provide a definition for community and social media in their own words.

Foundations of Travel 2.0...

Defining Community at the Online Media, Marketing, and Advertising Expo

How do you define community? Community means different things to different people.

CoreSpeed is asking some of the attendees at the Online Media, Marketing, and Advertising Expo how they define community.

Visit the OMMA 2007 Group to see what they are saying and add your own!

 

Atlanta, GA – August 14, 2007 – CoreSpeed, LLC., an Atlanta-based provider of branded online community and enterprise social media platforms, announces that it will be exhibiting at the upcoming Online Media, Marketing, and Advertising (OMMA) Expo to be held in New York from September 24-25. CoreSpeed’s platform incorporates Web 2.0 social media tools to provide collaboration and communications around traditional customer, prospect, employee, supply chain, and partner touch-points.

Community Simulation for Improved Implementations – Part 2

In my last post, I discussed the evolution of enterprise application configuration, customization, and development as a prelude to introducing simulation with respect to community implementations.

In some cases a pilot project that leverages a hosted solution such as CoreCommunity is sufficient for an organization to understand how community functionality might be best utilized in the enterprise. We are even finding that a private group within an existing community can address much of what is needed to achieve that understanding.

However, in other cases, the need for better clarity of community concepts as they apply to a specific enterprise is necessary to design and implement the most appropriate solution. Many enterprise community implementations will leverage community functionality across a broad spectrum of enterprise applications and requirements rather than as a standalone community.

This type of environment is more complex and is typically larger in scope than a simple community implementation. It will generally necessitate more effort and process for success.

Often, organizations leverage the Agile methodology in these types of projects. This is because it has been proven that if large volumes of work are done without frequent validation by the business user, then large volumes of rework will also be required when it is discovered that functionality does not address the actual business need or want in an effective manner.

Agile incorporates short delivery cycles, small manageable chunks of work, and a well trained team that is focused on the delivery of quality software and constant communication. Unfortunately, this approach still requires much iteration which is very costly.

It also does not allow very good estimation because it does not try to asses the requirements up front. Not knowing the effort before starting a project makes it very difficult to achieve project approval from the business stakeholders.

I will explore the alternative in Part 3 of Community Simulation for Improved Implementations.

See Part 1

John Linss
CoreSpeed
President/CEO
CoreSpeed Website
CoreSpeed Community

Siege 2007 - Southern Interactive Entertainment and Game Expo

The leading videogame professionals from across the South are converging on Atlanta for SIEGE 2007 - the Southern Interactive Entertainment and Game Expo.

Join us for a weekend full of seminars on game design by leading professionals and educators.

Where: Crowne Plaza Perimeter - Atlanta, GA

When: October 5-7, 2007

Key Speakers include:

• Johnny Wilson of Manifesto Games
• Ian Bogost of Persuasive Games
• Sam Lewis of Cartoon Network
• Marcus Matthews of Blue Heat
• Celia Pearce from Georgia Tech
• and many more...

There will be great presentations, game and design competitions, suite parties and a college fair. For more information go to SIEGE 2007

Hosted by the Georgia Game Developers Association

Community Simulation for Improved Implementations - Part 1

CoreSpeed believes that community (social networking) technology is poised to become the new user interface for the Internet as well as for business. Increasingly, organizations are recognizing that the traditional, linear way of viewing their enterprises limits their ability to leverage relationships that can add value.
 
Through multi-dimensional identity definitions (identity hubs) and tagging that incorporate both people and systems, CoreSpeed community solutions can expose and utilize several aspects of relationships – people to people, people to data, and data to data.

These changes will place even more pressure on traditional approaches to enterprise application configuration, customization, and development.  While software development life cycle (SDLC) refinements such as Agile and Lean drive improvements in relevance and effectiveness for translating business requirements into application functionality, they still fall short.

CoreSpeed’s software development processes have always been based on current software industry best practices.  In recent years, the software industry has seen a transition from waterfall to Rational Unified Process to various flavors of Agile. Generally, this transition comes from the recognition that translating business needs to application functionality can only be accomplished when the business user is in close contact with the application developer.

It is clear these trends still need improvement and the answer seems to be rapid application simulation.

More about this in the next post.

John Linss
CoreSpeed
President/CEO
CoreSpeed Website
CoreSpeed Community

Enterprise Community

One of the things that has become clear to us here at CoreSpeed is that there has been a huge groundswell of hype around social networking and social media. Consequently, there are lots of existing companies and start ups angling to get in on the perceived pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

 The big numbers surrounding MySpace, FaceBook, and the like are attracting a fervor analogous to the dotcom days. Unfortunately, we are seeing a bit of the dotcom flavor of flawed business models as well. There are a fair number of solutions that are really features and not products and some that are simply copycats that will never gain momentum.

Many enterprises are struggling to understand what this whole social media phenomenon means to them. Employees are using Facebook, MySpace, and external blogs to communicate and collaborate more effectively and business managers recognize that there are security and control issues associated from this practice.

What they really need is an effective way to expose the relationships and interactions that already exist within and outside the enterprise in a relevant and contextual way. In most cases, an enterprise community that enables the discovery of people, skills, resources, and media can deliver the level of control, workflow, and security not found in most consumer oriented networks. 

My suggestion is for those interested in understanding these technologies to register and use our CoreCommunity network. You will then begin to understand some of the ways in which such social network functionality might be used in your enterprise. 

The success of an enterprise community derives from an effective and well defined upfront strategy. It is critical to be clear regarding initiatives and return on investment. Properly designed, an enterprise community will drive effectiveness and real value. Without proper design, it will be just “one of those things we tried once”.

John Linss

President / CEO

CoreSpeed