Enterprise RSS Day Of Action - Memes are Bubbling
The Enterprise RSS Day of Action is coming up this Thursday, and it’s fun to see the conversations bubbling about it around the web. I especially liked Charlie Davidson’s matter-of-fact post about it the other day over on the Attensa blog.
In his very succinct post - “RSS is what RSS does” - he summed it up nicely…
“Ironically it is also the tool I am using daily to participate in this community of thought.”
Scott Niesen described a meme he’s been following that positions the technical and business points of view on collaboration and communications flow, where he succinctly describes how Attensa’s started talking in a very different way about “enterprise RSS” to enterprises who are struggling to get their arms around all the information they’re being asked to manage:
“When it comes to talking about getting your arms around the information you and Enterprise RSS, it all comes back to Andrew McAfee’s SLATES:
Search | Links | Authorship | Tags | Extensions | Signals
“SLATES describes the combined use of effective enterprise search and discovery, using links to connect information together into a meaningful information ecosystem using the model of the Web, providing low-barrier social tools for public authorship of enterprise content, tags to let users created emergent organizational structure, extensions to spontaneously provide intelligent content suggestions similar to Amazon’s recommendation system, and signals to let users know when enterprise information they care about has been published or updated, such as when a corporate RSS feed of interest changes.”
Replacing the abbreviation RSS with words like signals, alerts, delivery is far more descriptive and useful to customers. One of our customers has named their RSS initiative project: Communication & Collaboration Delivery. That’s got a much better ring to it than Enterprise RSS.”
As long as we don’t replace RSS with SAD, I’m cool with it, Scott.
James Dellow, over on the Enterprise RSS Day of Action WIKI, has envisioned this day and the WIKI space to set aside some time to review the following:
Enabling Communication and Collaboration To Do List:
- Develop a resource pack, containing slides, posters etc, that people can use to run their own day of action
- Create a list of Enterprise RSS solutions (servers, feed readers and other related tools)
- Develop an Enterprise RSS FAQ and Glossary
- Collect case studies of early adopters
- Enterprise RSS Company bios
I plan to spend the morning on Thursday talking communication and collaboration online. Care to join in?
[…] Janet compiles Enterprise RSS Day of Action posts, pointing out Scott Niesen who calls for altering the conversation about RSS: Like most new technology companies we had a vision of how RSS could be used behind the firewall and we wanted feedback to see if we were on target. In the early days we started these conversations by focusing on the technology. These conversations didn’t get very far. The inside joke was that we were starting the conversations by asking, “How many pounds of RSS would you like to buy today?” You live and learn. Now we start the conversation talking about communication and collaboration challenges. The conversations last longer and are far more meaningful. […]
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