EPIC 2008
Over the years, it’s been harder and harder to find academic or industry conferences that I really enjoy and learn from. The American Anthropology Association has so much infighting, and SO little support for practicing anthropologists that I haven’t attended in a few years. I’ve even stopped my membership, because they have the gall to charge a sliding membership fee, knowing that practicing anthropologists probably earn more, but doing next to nothing to support us. Furthermore, the conference papers are typically not that strong, and the proceedings are not...
Read MoreEUI Summit – Day 2
We started the second day of the Summit with another delicious breakfast on the deck of the Sky Hotel. Amazingly, I was hungry, even though I had eaten mounds and mounds of delicious food the night before. Sam Lawrence once again kicked off the day by explaining our agenda. The plan was to do a short demo of the new release (coming out next week), and then break us into four groups to ‘deconstruct the UI’. Basically, they wanted expert eyes focusing on four major areas of the product. The areas of focus for the breakout were: The landing / front page Profiles, and in...
Read MoreEUI Summit – Day 1 PM
After another delicious lunch on the deck at the Sky Hotel (a view from our lunch spot is at left), Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting then spoke about Microblogging Re-Imagined OR Microsharing in the Enterprise. The term blogging itself can be a barrier, but the biggest issue is why people should use it in the enterprise context. The concerns are why they should do it, and who they are telling. She believes that an enteprise solution needs to ask a different question: What has your attention? (Twitter asks the question: What are you doing?) That revised approach leads to use...
Read MoreEUI Summit – UI/UX panel
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had the opportunity to participate in a lively panel about the nature of user interface / user experience in the enterprise, and what the future holds. The picture at left depicts the funky meeting room at the Sky Hotel in Aspen. The session was videotaped, and I also captured a digital recording. Check back soon for a podcast, transcript, and/or video...
Read MoreEUI Summit – Day 1 AM
Thursday was the first full day of the Summit, and we had a very full agenda. As a result, I am going to break the day up into three posts: the morning sessions, the Enterprise UI/UX panel that I participated in, and the afternoon sessions. Sam Lawrence is Jive’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and the one responsible for organizing the event. He started the day by providing a little background on what led up to the Enterprise UI Summit. Several years ago, Jive worked with an outside consultant to make a plan for their future product direction. That vision helped them take the...
Read MoreEUI Summit – Day 0
Kirsten and I arrived in Aspen for the Enterprise UI Summit yesterday, tired and hungry. Overall the trip was pretty uneventful, although we had a super tight connection in Denver, and a bumpy ride into Aspen because of the weather. I think it is going take me a little while to get acclimated to the altitude – my heart is racing a bit, and I am finding myself out of breath! Because our rooms weren’t ready, we opted to walk around, stretch our legs, and have some lunch. I had forgotten what a beautiful place Colorado is! Aspen is in a little valley, nestled between two...
Read MoreEnterprise UI Summit – prework
Elsewhere, I’ve written about SAP’s intranet (called the Corporate Portal), which runs on the SAP NetWeaver platform. In addition to our intranet, at SAP we have an instance of the Jive Clearspace Suite installed for collaboration both inside and outside the firewall. I have enjoyed my use of the ‘Collaboration Workspace’ so far, though I do sometimes find it frustrating that it exists independent of the rest of our landscape; it makes it ‘above the flow’ rather than ‘in the flow’, as Michael Idinopulos said. Nonetheless, my experience...
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