Microsoft is starting to use this sotware quite extensively those days.

Basically provides blog, forum, media and membership features.

You can see http://microsoftgadgets.com for example

Mechanism for developing and dynamically deploying awarelets

A software system рrоvides structure bIocks for developing event handlers (normally XML-based оr information оbjeсt bаsed) and a mechanism for dynamically deploying and managing them in an online community hаving roles and pIaces defined for users and grоuрs. The compIex information to be posted/reсeived between users and appIications саn be described in XML оr real Java.TM. оbjeсts. The software system is соmроsed of the subsequent main components: Awarelet basis, Awarelet Container, Awarelet Application Adapter, Awarelet Event, Awarelet Configuration, and Awarelet Repository. Awarelet TechnoIogy is designed to improved the previous art of Instant Messaging in оrder to help extra robust interactions between members of the online community. This development considers nоt just users as members, but in adding, business appIications and рrосesses as well. The development aims to resolve the probIems stemming frоm lack of support for business connected collaborations in the previous art, as well as improve the capacity to send and get compIex informational events. This Awarelet TechnoIogy lets for the creаtion of real-time business connected collaborations in оrder for the members of an online community to exchаnge business events and context. Awarelet TechnoIogy brings the notion of context and structure to the members of online communities and саn be used to create powerful real-time business connected collaborations.

from http://www.patentalert.com/docs/001/z00110982.shtml

Fichtre, je ne le savais pas quand j'ai utilisé ce terme

Go and see this picture which is one of the result of the study

http://www.backbonemedia.com/blogsurvey/9-corporate-blogging-cult-divide-diagram.htm

you can also download the pdf full study from

Backbone Media, Inc at http://www.backbonemedia.com.

Worth reading it

here is a copy for my own convinience

I have developped a Google Panel to monitor some IBM Lotus Quickplaces.

With this panel, one can: Scan every hours a set of Room Index to get the latest publucation Click on an entry to go an see the selected publication on the Quickplace The user-loging is handled automatically This use IE automation, so if you can access your quickplace with IE, you will be able to modify this panel and use it Some statistics are gathered to see the performance o accessing your QuickPlace

I am writing a technical note describing how to do such a development.

The outline of this note is 

1.Tools
 1.1.JavaScript editor and debugger
 1.2.Editing a panel JavaScript source
 1.3.Debugging your panel
 1.4.Generating a panel install file
 1.5.JavaScript Plug-in Development cycle
2.Outline of Panels object model
3.A sample panel using IE automation to monitor Lotus QuickPlace

The first chapter is now available

There is a good reference there:

http://www.blogwriteforceos.com/blogwrite/fortune_500_blogs/. Debbie Weil  has made a great job referencing who is doing what. She is writing a book about corporate blogging: http://blogwrite.blogs.com/book/

I have discovered HP blog usage through this. HP Blogs are there:

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/104417-0-0-225-121.aspx

Steve Wilson,  Senior Director of Global Web Communications at McDonald’s Corporation where he leads a team of people focused on delivering the various electronic communications platforms for McDonald’s around the world, tells there http://swaynewilson.com/wordpress/?p=22 what he is using in his company.

He tells: "For corporate blogging, check out the folks at iUpload, located in Burlington, Canada."

I like it!

Rawn Shah is developerWorks' Community Editor focusing on how to develop greater interaction between IBM DeveloperWorks members through the many community services they have such as blogs, forums, user groups, wikis and other services.

I am blogrolling his blog!

Usually, at least it's what we do with our enterprise global program New², we have a contest of the best initiatives for the company program.

This is a good practice because it enables to map what the company has achieved and also provide recognition to the individuals who are the most commited to the company change.

The problem with this setting, is that we are rewarding past efforts and not funding initiative who may make change happen more drastically.

We should have another complementary setting: a directory of just starting initiatives.

How this list of "Promishing initiative for the program" is "managed" and the interaction it may creates (like this people may participate to some of those initiatives, as they are known in a central directory) needs to be carrefully designed.

It should allows for emergence and in the mean time provide the right level of quality the company program is expecting...