CMS Wire Six Counterintuitive Truths About Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Ten years of knowledge sharing deployments convince me that the rules are different for E2.0. Transactional system benchmarks just don’t work, but we keep applying them to collaborative situations anyway. When you think about it, it doesn’t make sense. Read the Full Article→
Destination CRM Collaboration Constraints How's that knowledge-sharing initiative coming along? The one where you spent beaucoup bucks on software and who-know-how-much on training? If you've hit a wall, you're not alone. Resistance is inevitable. Read the Full Article→
May 2010
Forbes Gartner Names Yakabod Cool Vendor Yakabod, developer of the Yakabox™ knowledge sharing system, announced today it is included in the "Cool Vendors in the High-Performance Workplace, 2010" report published by Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines a cool vendor as “a company whose solutions are innovative, impactful and intriguing” for a specific market category. Read the Full Article→
Corp! Where Do Your Company’s Best Ideas Go to Die? Knowledge sharing software will keep them alive A whopping 80 percent of the information your company saves is useless. More than half is never looked at once it’s filed. But the really important stuff—ideas, insights, lessons learned—marches out your door at quitting time or lies dead and buried in a shared drive. Read the Full Article→
February 2010
BeyeNETWORK The Rule of 151: How to Move Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence from Margin to Mainstream Impatient with modest traction in the public sector, knowledge management (KM) and business intelligence (BI) advocates say “better marketing and PR” are at the top of their wish lists. Ask any five government officials how they might benefit from these business tools, and you’ll get five different answers – or a blank stare. Read the Full Article→
Gazette.net Frederick software company employee uses resources to help native Haiti Rosemay Dyer, who once lived in Haiti, but now resides and works in Frederick, shows her Facebook page, which includes a photo of Shirley Rene Denize, a childhood friend who died during the recent earthquake in Haiti. Dyer and her co-workers at Yakabod, a software-building and technology company in downtown Frederick, are now trying to help victims of the earthquake. Read the Full Article→
January 2010
Washington Business Journal Press Release Beltway VIPs Break Through Collaboration Barriers An unlikely mix of intelligence officers, Capitol Hill executives and students gets together 24/7 in a virtual community launched recently by the Delaney Center at Mount St. Mary's University. The invitation-only network links bioterrorism experts, bodyguards, aerospace engineers and academics - plus a variety of federal heavyweights who prefer to keep a low profile. Read the Full Article→
October 2009
Gov 2.0 Radio Interview on BlogTalkRadio Creating Collaboration in Secure Environments Hosts Adriel Hampton and Steve Lunceford discuss enterprise knowledge management and Web 2.0 with Scott Ryser, CEO of Yakabod. Listen to or download the podcast →
August 2009
Basex Analyst Review In the briefing room: Yakabod's Yakabox Senior Analyst Cody Burke: “It is easy to lose sight of the fundamental question an organization should be asking when deploying a knowledge sharing and collaboration tool, that is: ‘how will this tool help my company get work done?’ This often happens because products and tools are segmented into arbitrary and confusing market segments .... A breath of fresh air in this space is Yakabod ...” Read the full article →
ebizQ Interview with Phil Wainewright Users Not Sharing? Tighten Security! Listen to my interview with Scott Ryser, CEO of Yakabod, whose collaborative knowledge-sharing system is used extensively within the US intelligence community. In this podcast, learn why implementing strong security to protect information is sometimes the key to getting people to start sharing it with others within their organization. Listen to the podcast (or read the transcript) →
July 2009
The AppGap Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Best Practices from Yakabod Yakabod has been providing knowledge management solutions since 2003, primarily for the US intelligence community to date. Their flagship product is the Yakabox Knowledge Network. I reviewed it on this blog earlier (see Yakabod Provides Robust Knowledge Management with a Social Side). Like a number of enterprise 2.0 providers, they realize that many of the issues for a successful adoption of their offering are not technical and they have broadened their offerings to include adoption support. I recently spoke with Yakabod CEO Scott Ryser and Ian Bramson, Director National Intelligence Engagements about their experiences helping clients with adoption issues and the services they provide for this effort. Read the full article →
June 2009
Enterprise 2.0 Blog Yakabod gets featured at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston.- Alex Dunne As per Dunne " On the Yakabod booth I met Scott Ryser, the CEO of the company. He told me about the Yakabox, which, unlike the most of the products I saw at E2, is a collaboration appliance. The Yakabox is a hardware-based “knowledge engine” that enables collaboration, social networking, content management and yes, search, within an organization. As an appliance, it has some tough security built in: encryption that passes Federal Information System data security standards, two-factor authentication, and a user permissioning system." Here's Scott describing it →
Tech Talk Radio Interview Craig Peterson interviews Yakabod CEO- Scott Ryser Are you tired of hunting for, waiting for, and re-creating the information you need to do your job? Well listen in to Scott Ryser the CEO at Yakabod who joins Craig to discuss how they have taken Knowledge Management to the next level with their Yakabox. Listen to the podcast →
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