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Selected Technology News
Saba announced Saba 5.5. New features in the unified people management platform include an updated Web interface, mobile access, real-time performance feedback, and best practices workflows and wizards.

7 Degrees announced PeopleMaps, a social business application for building social graphs of connections by mining contacts from Outlook, LinkedIn, Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo as well as data from the Web and premium data sources.

Mindjet announced Mindjet Catalyst. The new offering is a collaborative platform that features a visual environment with online document sharing, Web conferencing, and project management functionality.

Upcoming Innovation & Knowledge Management Conferences

KMWorld 2009, San Jose, CA November 17-19

ispim symposium, New York, December 6-9

CoDev 2010, Scottsdale AZ, January 25-27

FEI2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 8-10

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies

KMWorld Best Practices White Papers:

• Best Practices in Knowledge Management
There remains a partisan divide over “knowledge management.” One side says it’s about tools and technology. The other side says it’s about process and procedure. As the man once said: It might be BOTH.
Knowledge management: A noun or a verb?
Download this white paper here.

• Best Practices in Records Management, Risk & Compliance
This tension between “keeping versus destroying” (also called “retention and disposition”) can drive a fatal wedge between your business operations managers and your legal advisors. It’s happening every day.
Records are good. Records management is essential
Download this white paper here.

• Best Practices in Paper-Centric Business Process Automation
Despite almost two decades’ worth of effort to automate paper-based business processes of all kinds, it might be surprising that the issue of “paper” is still on the minds of knowledge managers and business executives.
Tame the paper beast now. It is not your friend.
Download this white paper here.

• Best Practices in Enterprise Social Networking & Collaboration
By allowing fast, easy and lightweight collaboration between individuals and workgroups, tools such as user forums, blogs, wikis and their ilk have finally made good on the promise of KM. And it seems to have happened overnight.
Social nets make KM possible
Download this white paper here.

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies on behalf of KMWorld.

Search Innovation and Social Media
Search Strategies that Put Social Technology to Work

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 — 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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The hype (and self-hype) of Social Media has gone from buzz to roar. Companies of all sizes across sectors are discovering that social technology innovations can provide competitive advantage, from engaging customers in support forums to unlocking employee productivity with advances in collaboration.

As fast as companies, communities and consumers are producing data about each other and everything else, they need faster, more versatile search capabilities to find the information they want. They want search technology that can match pace with the transparency, flexibility, speed and scale of social media and the data that drives it.

Join Lucid Imagination Chief Architect Brian Pinkerton, to examine how Lucene/Solr Open Source Search Technology is unlocking the value inside the torrents of data produced by social technology. We’ll explore search strategies with thought leaders Dave Hendi, Director of Engineering for Search at MySpace.com, and Ty Ahmad-Taylor, CEO of Fanfeedr.com,
and discuss Digg.com, LinkedIn, and other cutting-edge Lucene/Solr use cases, to help you discover the search innovations that can put your social media data to work.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 — 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
REGISTER NOW for this complimentary webcast

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies on behalf of KMWorld.

Selected Technology News
Salesforce.com announced Service Cloud 2 including Salesforce Knowledge, Salesforce Answers and Salesforce for Twitter.

Melior announced GuruStorms - an online interactive brainstorming service.

Indigo announced Dekks for building expert networks using Twitter style postings and ratings.

Upcoming Innovation & Knowledge Management Conferences

ICICKM Montreal, Canada, October 1-2
Business Innovation, Wheaton, IL  October 5-7

KMWorld 2009, San Jose, CA November 17-19

ispim symposium, New York, December 6-9

CoDev 2010, Scottsdale AZ, January 25-27

FEI2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 8-10

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies

Webinar topics will include:

• Business use cases for enterprise microblogging
• Pros & cons of enterprise microblogging
• Brief demo of NewsGator microblogging capabilities on SharePoint
• Question & answer session

Free Live Webinar
September 29, 2009 from 2:30 - 3:00 pm ET (30 minutes)

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies on behalf of newsgator.

Sales Collaboration: Differentiator or Pipe-Dream?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 — 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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The emergence of collaboration technology is bringing a wealth of new ideas and strategies to bear for businesses like never before. Today’s most competitive organizations are those that recognize the value of collaboration and the role it can play in driving performance from their most important customer-facing people—the sales force.
With so much buzz around this topic, how do you know what is best for your team? How do you develop a smart collaboration strategy that works for your front line and continues to drive value every day?

Join KMWorld & Jeff Summers, COO from SAVO to learn how leading companies, including IBM, VMware, Solae and Akamai are using collaboration in a strategic way to drive efficiency and effectiveness from their sales teams. Find out what technologies they’re using to truly drive top-line impact—and how they’re avoiding the trap of collaboration simply for collaboration’s sake.

Learn how to:
• Arm every salesperson with the best content, information and resources from across the company to drive more impactful sales conversations
• Mine key insights from the field—without administrative burdens
• Bring marketing into the loop with actionable feedback and insight into what works in the field
• Institutionalize the best practices of your top performers

Sales Collaboration: Differentiator or Pipe-Dream?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 — 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
REGISTER NOW for this complimentary webcast

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies on behalf of KMWorld

A KMWorld interview with Andrew McAfee:

http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Writing-the-book-on-Enterprise-2.0-56096.aspx 

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies

Selected Technology News
Projecturf announced its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) project collaboration tool.

X1 Technologies announced the X1 eDiscovery Search Suite.

ManTech announced the Center for Web 2.0, focusing on collaborative and social networking software and providing a secure environment for testing and piloting.

Upcoming Innovation & Knowledge Management Conferences

I-KNOW 2009 Graz Austria, September 2-4

ICKM 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 23-25

ICICKM Montreal, Canada, October 1-2

Business Innovation, Wheaton, IL  October 5-7

KMWorld 2009, San Jose, CA November 17-19

ispim symposium, New York, December 6-9

CoDev 2010, Scottsdale AZ, January 25-27

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies

August 12, 2009: A day of high-level interaction, knowledge sharing, and learning about the problem of Information Overload - all without leaving your office.

You'll learn

• What are the smartest managers doing today to combat Information Overload?
• What does the problem of Information Overload cost companies?
• What are possible solutions?

http://www.informationoverloadday.com/ 

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies on behalf of Basex

With communication budgets shrinking, there has never been a better time to learn some cost-cutting techniques. Integrating social media into your communication strategy is a surefire way to save thousands, even tens of thousands, of precious budget dollars. And at the same time you'll be bringing your strategy up to speed with the latest ways to communicate to an increasingly tech-savvy workforce.

This year's SCM summit will be held in Chicago Sept 22-24.
Download the brochure:
http://www.melcrum.com/scmsummit/us2009/pdf/SCM_summit_US_2009.pdf 

Posted by Anders Hemre at interKnowledge Technologies on behalf of Melcrum.