Take a look at this..

nice one..

This is an article about how CIO start to put social networking into their business and company. I found pro and con about this issue and I think Nickolaisen has a great opinion about this.  I agree that social networking is the new era of technology that has to be developed in business. It’s not only a threat, but it also had lots of potentials that can benefit us. 

Many people just afraid to start it!

CIOs make social networking their business

by Niel Nickolaisen in http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid183_gci1343208,00.html?track=NL-1014&ad=681015&asrc=EM_USC_5444958&uid=5942132

As IT leaders, what are we to make of social networking for our businesses? Is social networking just a new name for the collaboration we have spent the last 20 years enabling? Or is it the next silver bullet that is going to validate IT’s value to the business? Or is it simply another set of applications we will have to design, implement and support — one more brick on the pile?

Before I could make my own conclusions, I had to do some research into what other CIOs are doing with social networking technologies in their businesses. For example, one of my good friends started a company blog. A blog? For what? As a way for employees to communicate with each other and their leadership, and to make suggestions for improvements.
My CIO peer quickly discovered that opening the blog required him to make a series of decisions about how the blog would be managed:

• Should employee posts be anonymous? He felt yes.
• Who would respond to questions about policy and ensure that suggestions were considered? He distributed the suggestions at executive team meetings.
• What would happen if employees turned the blog into a gripe site? He was patient with questions like “Why does the CEO make 30 times more than I do?” Eventually, the employee community started to police itself. Six months into his blogging experiment, he feels that the blog has created value and so is ready to expand by creating departmental blogs.

At a large engineering firm, the CIO has created his own, internal version of Facebook. Engineers create and publish profiles that include their experience and expertise. With this social network in place, project teams from around the company can shop for specific skills they need to answer problems they are facing.

Suppose a team needs to perform a Wigner-Ville Transform but has no experience with such transforms. Rather than spending time to learn about what Wigner and Ville developed, the team searches the social network for engineers that can help them do the calculations. The CIO says this approach has improved project results and shortened cycle times, adding even “old-dog engineers” love the internal Facebook.

The CIO is now thinking of adding two features to the system:

First, a feedback system — like seller ratings on eBay — so people know what they are getting when they read an engineer’s profile.
Second, a willingness factor so engineers can tell the company how willing they are to respond to requests for their expertise.     
I am working on a little social networking skunkworks project of my own. My idea is to build a community for our customers. I want to provide a way for our customers to learn about best practices and tools not just from us but also from their peers. My goal is to link community and commerce. If a customer has a question, he can access a network of peers who have likely already faced and solved the problem. The commerce comes when we mine the community for new product ideas.

These all seem like very pragmatic, potentially valuable uses of social networking to improve the business. As such, I do not fear social networks because I really do want to tap into the vast brainpower that exists among our employees, my peers and our customers.

Ok sekarang saya sedang mencoba windows live writer, salah satu weblog client dari microsoft. Setelah beberapa kali mencoba untuk meng-installnya.. akhirnya berhasil juga.. (ternyata butuh sambungan internet yang stabil dan cukup kencang sewaktu menginstallnya) dan ini adalah hasil dari penulisan di tool ini.

Weblog client ini lebih advance .. pertama dia bisa membaca setting theme dan design, sehingga saya dapat melihat tampilan post sewaktu menulisnya. kedua, yang menjadi perhatian saya, dia mempunyai fasilitas insert map dan insert table.

Ini adalah contohnya

Untuk proses menulis sendiri, dia bisa open past post, bisa grammar check.. dan save post di lokal. Selain itu toolsnya cukup lengkap,  dibagian bawah editor terdapat category, keyword, comment, ping, author, slug, password (bisa buat post dgn password), excerpt..dan trackback.

Tapi tag nya seperti dibawah..

Lagi coba Deepest sender ..

Apa itu ya?

Deeper sender adalah salah satu software Weblog client. .detail:

Weblog Client

A Weblog Client is software you run on your local machine (desktop) that lets you post to your blog via XML-RPC. In some cases, the Weblog Client can even manage your weblog entries. You might think of Weblog Clients as the equivalent of email clients such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora Mail. Essentially, the Weblog Client allows you to write a post even if you are off-line; then, the next time you connect to the Internet, you can publish that post.

Advantages

The advantages of using a weblog client include:

1. The ability to write posts without having to go on-line
2. The ability to save drafts
3. A nicer interface
4. Fancy formatting features
5. Features like cross-posting to multiple blogs
6. Faster uploading and addition of photos
7. The ability to keep local backup

List of Client Software:

• BlogDesk
• BlogJet
• Blog Writer
• Chrysanth WebStory
• Deepest Sender (Extension for Firefox or SeaMonkey, Cross-platform – Deepest Sender will run on any OS that Firefox will run on)
• Ecto
• Elicit
• Flock
• JBlogEditor
• LIPIDr Blog Client (Freeware, WordPress only)
• Post2Blog – detailed WordPress instructions
• Post2Blog Express
• Qumana
• ScribeFire (formerly Performancing)
• Semagic
• Zoundry Raven – new product as of Feb 2008.
• w.bloggar
• WB Editor
• Windows Live Writer – link to MS blog announcement for latest version, has d/l link
• WriteToMyBlog – web based

Berikut review ku..

1. tidak ada tag .. jadi hanya bisa masukin category

2. tidak ada pembagian halaman, jadi satu post harus di satu halaman.

3. Sewaktu coba edit post, tiba-tiba postnya hilang payah… dan ternyata untuk kedua kalinya terjadi lagi!!

4. bisa ganti warna tulisan.. lucu..

hari ini temanku menemukan suatu alat menarik untuk manage project. Alat ini web-based dan berupa service dan mereka yang mengurus server, penyimpanan dsb..Jadi kita hanya perlu memusingkan proyek kita bukan bagaimana cara memanagenya. Alhasil, mereka minta bayaran pun perbulan dan sepertinya masih make sense untuk ukuran applikasi seperti ini.

kalau mau coba, lihat ya di sini http://www.basecamphq.com/index

Hari ini saya mencoba beberapa editor untuk menulis post di WP.
Beberapa software yang ada :

• BlogDesk
• BlogJet
• Blog Writer
• Chrysanth WebStory
• Deepest Sender (Extension for Firefox or SeaMonkey, Cross-platform – Deepest Sender will run on any OS that Firefox will run on)
• Ecto
• Elicit
• Flock
• JBlogEditor
• LIPIDr Blog Client (Freeware, WordPress only)
• Post2Blog – detailed WordPress instructions
• Post2Blog Express
• Qumana
• ScribeFire (formerly Performancing)
• Semagic
• Zoundry Raven – new product as of Feb 2008.
• w.bloggar
• WB Editor
• Windows Live Writer – link to MS blog announcement for latest version, has d/l link
• WriteToMyBlog – web based

nah, sekarang saya sedang mencoba menulis post dari deepest sender..
Ini reviewnya:

1. It’s work fine
2. Sepertinya kurang di tag.. jadi sulit untuk menulis tag..
3. Sulit untuk membuat pembagi halaman 

Lagi coba Deepest sender ..
Apa itu ya?

Deeper sender adalah salah satu software Weblog client. .detail:

Weblog Client

A Weblog Client is software you run on your local machine (desktop) that lets you post to your blog via XML-RPC. In some cases, the Weblog Client can even manage your weblog entries. You might think of Weblog Clients as the equivalent of email clients such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora Mail. Essentially, the Weblog Client allows you to write a post even if you are off-line; then, the next time you connect to the Internet, you can publish that post.

Advantages

The advantages of using a weblog client include:

1. The ability to write posts without having to go on-line
2. The ability to save drafts
3. A nicer interface
4. Fancy formatting features
5. Features like cross-posting to multiple blogs
6. Faster uploading and addition of photos
7. The ability to keep local backup

List of Client Software:

• BlogDesk
• BlogJet
• Blog Writer
• Chrysanth WebStory
• Deepest Sender (Extension for Firefox or SeaMonkey, Cross-platform – Deepest Sender will run on any OS that Firefox will run on)
• Ecto
• Elicit
• Flock
• JBlogEditor
• LIPIDr Blog Client (Freeware, WordPress only)
• Post2Blog – detailed WordPress instructions
• Post2Blog Express
• Qumana
• ScribeFire (formerly Performancing)
• Semagic
• Zoundry Raven – new product as of Feb 2008.
• w.bloggar
• WB Editor
• Windows Live Writer – link to MS blog announcement for latest version, has d/l link
• WriteToMyBlog – web based

Berikut review ku..
1. tidak ada tag .. jadi hanya bisa masukin category
2. tidak ada pembagian halaman, jadi satu post harus di satu halaman.
3. Sewaktu coba edit post, tiba-tiba postnya hilang payah…
4. bisa ganti warna tulisan.. lucu..