The latest from our blogs
Enterprise 2.0 Camp Tonight
Tonight Firestoker is sponsoring Enterprise 2.0 night at the Gladstone Hotel here in Toronto. The attendee list is filling up fast, so sign up in advance to be sure that you get in.
See you there.
Intranets under-used, research finds
“According to the research, document management, e-learning, and contact management were the most prominent intranet tools and Microsoft Office formats the most prominent file format. Intranet features typically revolved around staff announcements and messaging but the list was varied and included documentation and forms, blogs and wikis, phonebooks and directories, weather and menus and even bus timetables.However, despite the high amount of organisations that believe their intranets are massively under-utilised, 86pc of survey participants indicated that intranet will become more important in the near future. The report found that staff collaboration is the main driver for intranet development.“
UnSpacers
John Green invited me down to meet the guys at Unspace.
They are a great, tight knit group of developers and designers, with a fantastic office space too. Their model and way of approaching web work reminded me a lot of our early days at silverorange. They exuberance for their agility and rapid prototyping was a big shot of Deja Vu. Thier business model, a massive partnership of sorts, is also how we used to do things, and silverorange still does.
They are also probably one of the best rails shops you could find right now. Their developers and designers are happy, productive, people. What more could you ask for?
Office 2.0
Tom and I will be heading to the Office 2.0 Conference. Leila will be speaking, and I am looking forward to that. It will be nice to see what other people are thinking about this space, especially people who’s businesses have very little to do with Office/Enterprise tools (their speakers list seems to have a lot of people like that — but I assume that is their point?).
Fun community forming: Frappr
While I haven’t been able to get my mind around the shameless borrowing of the Flickr brand icons and image, Frappr has been a fun way for me to waste an hour today. It is very focused on creating groups, and having them members of those groups identify themselves on a Google Map, using the typical Google map pins and bubbles.
I am sure they have more planned, but right now Frappr leaves it at that. There are no real “sticky” features that will make this into a Flickr of groups. Frappr lacks the ongoing participation of great group forming tools.
Website Updates
We have been making a lot of changes to the main Firestoker site. It is still pretty far from where I want it to be. It needs to be a lot more clear about what Firestoker is, and isn’t. I’d also like to start adding case studies from some of our current clients.