Alfresco just selected Rivet Logic as the winner of their Americas Partner of the Quarter Award.
Alfresco Partner of the Quarter, Q2 2009 - Rivet Logic
We’re truly honored to be recognized again by Alfresco for our accomplishments. Over the past year, we’ve continued to see strong demand for our Alfresco consulting services as more and more organizations are becoming more liberal towards the idea of open source. Last quarter, we kicked off several new Alfresco projects in a variety of sectors - including higher ed, media/publishing, technology and non-profit.
We look forward to continuing our work with major enterprises, and contributing back to the Alfresco community.
Last week was Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. We participated as a sponsor of JBoss World and also gave a few presentations during the breakout sessions. Below are some highlights from our trip:
JBoss World at the downtown Chicago Hilton:
Our booth at the partner pavilion:
Museum of Science & Industry party:
Closing ceremony:
Although we didn’t walk away with the overall JBoss Innovator of the Year Award, we still have our category award for Optimized Systems to display in our trophy case….
We’ve all seen social networking’s unrelenting growth over the past few years as it continues to gain popularity and user adoption by enabling users to connect with people all over the world. Just look at Facebook’s road to domination. But along with that growth also comes a change in the way it’s being used. More and more, people are starting to leverage the power of social networking, this time, for a good cause.
On February 12, 2009, the first ever Twestival brought together the Twitter community in 202 cities around the world. The cause? A fundraising and awareness raising event for charity:water, a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. For one evening, social networking became a real life presence as local Twitter communities gathered offline for this global event.
“Twestival was born out of the idea that if cities were able to collaborate on an international scale, but working from a local level, it could have a spectacular impact.
We all know that Twitter can be a powerful communications tool. It can connect, mobilize and inform people around the world instantly. Those of us on Twitter know of its ability to organically create interesting communities from those people who find and follow each other. It is proven from the first Twestival that bringing the Twittersphere together for a special event is not only a memorable night; it has momentum to bring about social change.”
The first ever Twestival demonstrated the powerful impact social networking can make. This 100% volunteer organized event raised over $40,000 to support charity:water projects. Not bad for a first-of-its-kind event. The magnitude of this event opens the gateway for future events where individuals can make a difference on a global scale.
The Obama administration is marked by a promise of Change. That Change starts with the new WhiteHouse.gov. Just like his campaign strategies, Obama is incorporating Web 2.0 into how business will be conducted in the White House. Macon Phillips, the newly appointed Director of New Media for the White House, is steering WhiteHouse.gov in a whole new direction, one that centers around, and puts citizens first.
According to Phillips’ blog, their initial new media efforts will center around three priorities: communication, transparency, and participation, which will be conducted through Web 2.0 strategies.
Lines of communication are being opened through blogs, and government business will be made public for Americans to review.
“Citizen participation will be a priority for the Administration, and the internet will play an important role in that. One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the President: we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.”
This citizencentric methodology shows a movement towards what this government was fundamentally created for…. a goverment of the people, by the people, for the people.
Rivet Logic will be conducting a joint webinar with Alfresco on November 11th on Web 2.0 powered collaboration. Topics of focus will include how we’ve used Alfresco to build content-rich Web 2.0 collaboration platforms, with examples from real life case studies.
Join us to learn about building scalable yet cost effective solutions that leverage the value of content through a robust content repository like Alfresco. Some new Alfresco 3.0 features and highlights will also be covered.
With the baby boomers fast approaching retirement, the workforce is making room for a new slue of younger Gen Y employees. What affect will this have on the technologies enterprises currently employ? Along with the influx of a younger generation of workers, will come an increase in the adoption of new technologies. This younger generation of workers grew up using computers and the internet, with “blogs”, “social networking”, and “instant messaging” a part of their daily vocabulary. Gen Y comprises the bright minds of tomorrow. They’re not going to want to work in an environment where the technologies are behind. They’re going to expect the tools at their companies to mirror what they use in their personal lives. Gen Y is going to change the Web in more ways than one. It would in a sense almost force enterprises to come up to speed with Enterprise 2.0 technologies to recruit and retain the best of this generation.
