Kevin Mullins

Cathie's Birthday

Today was Cathie's Birthday.

We had a great day.

Moving

For those of you who have not visited in a while, I moved my "Technical Manager's Perspective" blog to http://www.techmgr.net and I have started another blog at http://www.syadmin.net

Web 2.0 patterns flowing into Enterprise 2.0

In December I wrote about my understanding of Web 2.0. In January and February I touched on SOA, BPM, EIM and Enterprise 2.0. I have been skeptical about WEB 2.0 adoption in the Enterprise and look forward to Enterprise 2.0 strategies to be introduced in business. This past week ZDNet's Dion Hinchcliffe wrote about the new studies and reports that show a movement toward some Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 strategies, however points out that there many discussions occurring at the Senior C-level, and there is already a movement started at the ground level surrounding blogs and wiki's. To read more .......

More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge by ZDNet's Dion Hinchcliffe-- The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well as Forrester, whom have each released the results of broad surveys of executives in various industries. The focus of both surveys was to capture a picture of the interests, activities, motivators for Web 2.0 adoption of several thousand C-level executives in medium to large companies...........

"Effective Web 2.0 in the enterprise, whether that's basic Enterprise 2.0 or a much broader and expansive view of Web 2.0 design patterns and business models which I've called Product Development 2.0 for lack of a better term, actually requires the active support of both the users on the ground as well as the top levels of an organization to really take off. Business are structured much differently that the consumer Web and major impediments to use of Web 2.0 production and consumption scenarios exist. This include lack of good enterprise search, mountains of closed legacy systems, the challenge of securing highly open, deeply integrated applications, and conflicting data models (XML, relational data, rich media, and more.) These are all challenges to the ultimate success of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, even to the point that some organizations are increasingly at risk of IT users doing so much themselves that the IT department can begin to lose control." Read full article

I see this move to Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 as a change in Computer Information strategy and philosophy. We have worked thru the days of punch cards, green terminals, closed systems, open systems, client server, static web strategies, and now we are moving beyond that to a Web Services - Service Oriented Architecture that is secure enough for the Enterprise and flexible enough to allow input and refinement from many more sources within Enterprise.

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Focus on Technical and Managerial Topics

I am coming up on my one year anniversary of blogging and I am looking to make a couple changes in focus and strategy with my blogging.

I really enjoy blogging and communicating and I know that I have a little following, however most of the folks that have communicated with me are more technical non-management folks and my interest and/or search for improvement is more on the managerial side, which leads to more posts about managerial content as opposed to technical content.

So, in an attempt to maintain both a technical and managerial focus I have created an new blog for system administrators called The System Admin which is located at www.syadmin.net. Notice the spelling and play on sy.

I have moved my Technical Manager's Perspective blog from my www.kmmm.net domain to www.techmgr.net. I am not sure what I am going to do with my www.kmmm.net domain however I will be focusing on both the www.techmgr.net and www.syadmin.net domains in the next few months.

Technorati : Blog, Management, System Administration

Moving again

I am moving my blog to a new domain www.techmgr.net . I will maintain both blogs for a couple of weeks to give folks time to change. If you read my blog via a RSS feed, you will need to create a new feed from the www.techmgr.net blog.

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