Dan Keldsen's Comments

O(b Log N): N-tier open source dad 2.0 and software punk : Welcome to the future

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:38:27 +0000

Aaron - Uh oh, exercise and re-wiring the brain? That might actually get me to get off my keister and exercise! :) I can't see running a full marathon - although my sister-in-law ran the NYC Marathon in 2008, and had a heck of an experience. Regardless of what you attempt, exercise is good for the brain - heck, in our line of work, the brain is a pretty important muscle to exercise, eh? Ciao, Dan

BizTechTalk : Twitter Followers Meet Microcredit! (Your Actions, Magnified)

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:16:26 +0000

Thanks for joining the experiment folks! Donating $160 to Grameen as a result of the increased followers, and promise not to twitter spam you to death post-experiment. Happy New Year's to all of you, and let's see what we can collectively make happen in 2009, eh?

BizTechTalk : Twitter Followers Meet Microcredit! (Your Actions, Magnified)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:48:41 +0000

Upped my donation to $2 (4x) per new follower due to late start and twitter doing spammer/inactive de-activiation. Roughly 24 hours left folks, please re-tweet, and let's work this social capital into a frenzy, eh? Thanks!

BizTechTalk : BizTechTalk Briefs 12/23/2008

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:31:53 +0000

Dave - Thanks for the props, and feedback. Hmm - well, I'll turn it around on you. What would be the appropriate markers in the subject? The general idea of the BizTechTalk Briefs is that they are roll-ups of social bookmarks I'm making. If it's just one, then not that big a deal, but when I'm publishing multiples (automatically, once a day, via Diigo), then, not so simple. Thoughts? (from anyone?) Sidenote - I'm just fired up that I have this working again at all. Makes it much easier to bridge the gap between the twitter-stream and "real" (long) blog posts. But I'm all for improving readability/usability, so hit me folks!

BizTechTalk : Twitter Followers Meet Microcredit! (Your Actions, Magnified)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:27:36 +0000

Thanks for the encouragement Charity, and yes, I hope larger companies see that this is just ONE of the ways in which social media can engage their customers and the world at large. As a company of two - we can use all the magnification we can get, so please spread the word!

BizTechTalk : The Next Gen of Dan = Information Architected, Inc. (IAI)

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:52:52 +0000

Thanks Sam - quite a lot of work to do, both in "traditional" IA terms, and in what we hope will spawn a new level of discussion. Thanks for popping on over. Structured and unstructured information has a long way to go as well - and certainly see that as part of the overall architecture that a business should put in place. Information, content, data, knowledge - call it what you will, if it's important to the business, it needs to be built for a reason or reasons, and made as fluid and flexible as possible. The race belongs to the swift! BTW - you might want to go back and edit your comment, it has the wrong URL - should be http://info-architecture.blogspot.com/- correct? (you have *.blogpost.*) Cheers, Dan

BizTechTalk : The Next Gen of Dan = Information Architected, Inc. (IAI)

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:34:49 +0000

Mark! Well, it's been far too long since we last ran into each other - come on down to Boston from time to time, eh? ;) Hope you're doing well, and thanks for the note. And Carl is old? I thought "Boomer" signified loudness! (said the Danish-American about the Italian-American, it's all relative) Ciao, Dan

BizTechTalk : The Next Gen of Dan = Information Architected, Inc. (IAI)

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:21:35 +0000

Thanks Barbara! That's been my suspicion as well, but like most of my experiments, we'll only find out as the experiment unfolds! (I suspect I should thank my father, a now retired organic chemistry professor, for putting the scientific method firmly in my head, eh?) And we definitely need to catch up - sometime soon. Happy holidays to you and yours.

BizTechTalk : The Next Gen of Dan = Information Architected, Inc. (IAI)

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:50:55 +0000

Thanks Tom! In an uncertain world, there needs to be a few of us crazy people who are jumping into to create something new, eh? There's never a PERFECT time to start a new company, so why not now? Happy Holidays to you and the family. Hope we can catch up sometime soon, and hear about your studio, book, etc.! Cheers, Dan

BizTechTalk : Metrics: Twitter Grader for @dankeldsen

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:24:03 +0000

Thanks for the comments, see you on twitter @UHBBO!

BizTechTalk : Now Available: Market IQ on Business Process Management

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 18:25:51 +0000

Stan - thanks for the link - some great comics there! Even more specific and relevant than Dilbert - and reminds me somewhat of the "Implementing SCRUM" cartoons as well (see http://www.implementingscrum.com/section/blog/car...).

BizTechTalk : View On: Web Content Deployment Automation

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:51:52 +0000

Carter - For WCM itself, of course the list is large. For Web Content Deployment/Automation - it SHOULD be any and all of the currently active WCM solutions. I'm not aware of Microsoft having offerings for this themselves (I could be wrong), but with the size/scope of the ecosystem around Microsoft, they may have other options (RepliWeb is one, BTW). RedDot (now Open Text) should be looked at as well (see the now dated article on CMS Watch at http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/104-Deployment), and of course one of the oldest WCM players, Vignette (http://www.vignette.com) should be looked at as well. At a glance, one would think that ALL of the players in the WCM world would support web content deployment automation, but this is an area where as a buyer, you definitely need to verify whether that's the case. As with so many capabilities these days, and the wide variety of solutions that organizations have deployed, looking at something like RepliWeb's offering as a neutral "meta layer" to plug in to various other systems to handle the final details of web deployment, should be a definite consideration. This is similar to looking to portal solutions to unify the UI above various other repositories, or federated search (universal search, alternatively) to cut across for Findability purposes, federated records management to leave content "in place" but managed centrally, etc.. All depends on what's driving your needs, both from business and technical standpoints. From the case study in this View on, it was a balance of modernizing the infrastructure, as well as removing barriers to publishing and re-using from the business point of view of "monetizing information." Hope that helps - anyone who should be added/subtracted from the list, I'd love to hear about. Cheers, Dan

BizTechTalk : View On: Web Content Deployment Automation

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:07:56 +0000

James - we're a non-profit association, and have a mix of underwritten offerings, as well as those directly paid for by individuals. Did we invent something new here? This is a 4-page piece, with an assessment of an issue (web content management 1.0 we could call it), the potential points of pain (front, middle, back-end on the technical sides, and the business impacts of those issues), and ways in which it might be addressed, including a case study of a live customer, and the solution that they chose, which in this case is RepliWeb. Nothing nefarious lurking in there. It's pretty clearly not a bake-off, lab test, or exhaustive study of sub-segment of the WCM market. We're raising the flag to make people aware that things have changed, and if they haven't examined their WCM setup since putting it in place 3-10 years ago, or have not yet put WCM capabilities in place (I'm sure this web stuff is a fad, BTW), then they should be aware of some of the perils and options available. What are you suggesting we should do to make the positioning suitably clear? Have we somehow confused the market after over 60 years of being the international association for content professionals of one sort or another? Cheers, Dan

BizTechTalk : Making the case for ECM in a down (or up) economy

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:46:22 +0000

Mark - Definitely agree, but want to continue surfacing specific examples of the good and the bad. For instance, as an insurance customer, obviously you'd want your settlement check as quickly as possible, and if that process can be streamlined, the company's costs should be lower to do so - but with a cynical lens on, would the insurance company want to pay out quickly? Short term, it depletes your cash/investments, long-term, better to have happy customers that STAY customers. Have seen all too often that people only pay lip-service to the "keeping customers" quotient though, which is why I'd like to surface a metric ton of examples for extremely sound business reasons for pursuing ECM.

BizTechTalk : Making the case for ECM in a down (or up) economy

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:43:37 +0000

Chris - Hmm, so you've made me think I should re-phrase. Regardless of hard-dollar or demonstrable ROI - what have been the drivers for ECM projects of any size (departmental or "true" enterprise-wide), and how has the deployed solution solved (0-100%) the problems? If this industry is going to really get traction, we need to be much more visible in why ECM matters, and exactly how it does. And for anyone who can't publicly state, but would be willing to share details anonymously that we can use as case studies to illustrate the points, contact me directly - dkeldsen[at]aiim[dot]org.

BizTechTalk : Content: Capture/Create (magic happens) Deliver

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:58:36 +0000

Tristam - yes indeed, thanks for mentioning eCopy. I shouldn't publish these lists on a Friday afternoon. Started to realize there were many I left off - although some are intentional, to see who's paying attention!

BizTechTalk : aiimALERT: Captaris Fronts Open Text as Newest Acquisition

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:24:14 +0000

Ken - Thanks for the follow-up. I wonder what the expected payback timeframe for this acquisition will be. Shoring up the fundamentals over the sizzle is certainly a wise move given the economics in play this week.

BizTechTalk : aiimALERT: Captaris Fronts Open Text as Newest Acquisition

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:25:26 +0000

Thanks Ken - certainly hard to pull out the reasons why the acquisition made sense from both sides, and who knows what the future will bring, but hope this was more substance than speculation! Cheers, Dan

BizTechTalk : links for 2008-08-31

Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:59:53 +0000

Jay - thanks for stopping by. Looking forward to your continued writing on Big Swinging Developer. We can only improve from here, right?

BizTechTalk : Failures of Process (and Thinking) in Social Networking

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:49:38 +0000

Vinod - thanks for the comments, and yes, what are they thinking? It was about 10 years ago when I first started diving into Usability, and as the saying goes "It's not rocket surgery!" You'd think that with the funding and traffic of LinkedIn, more attention would be paid to the Experience of the site . Plenty of books by Steve Krug, Lou Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Donald Norman, Jakob Nielsen, Jared Spool, etc. to get some ideas and implementations happening!