Dennis D. McDonald is a management consultant with special interests in project management, process improvement, information technology, IT department management strategy, and intellectual property management. Dr. McDonald has nearly 25 years’ experience in research, project management, and consulting company ownership. He has managed or participated in projects related to customer communications, customer system consolidation, cost-benefit analysis of copyright formalities, technology product marketing strategy, automation of scholarly publication, application portfolio consolidation, online parts catalogs, and call center system strategy. He earned his BA in Psychology at the Ohio State University and his MLS and PhD in Library and Information Science at the University of Maryland. He is currently an independent consultant, moderates the Linkedin Bloggers online group, and he is a member of the Podcast Roundtable. His weblog is called All Kind Food. Dr. McDonald lives in Alexandria, Virginia. His email address is: ddmcd@yahoo.com.
My friend Jeremiah Owyang says it’s time to take the quotation marks
off Web 2.0. I agree with him. Web 2.0 is here to stay.
That doesn’t mean there’s agreement yet on what the term means.
This is one of the reasons we’re hearing about “enterprise
resistance” to Web 2.0 applications (more on this below).
Web 2.0, after all, means different things to different people:
To the programmer, it’s a set of tools and techniques that have the
potential for fundamentally altering how network based applications and data
are developed, managed, and delivered.
For start-ups and venture capitalists, it’s an opportunity to get in on
the ground floor of another “bubble.”
For the corporate CIO or IT manager, it’s another set of... (more)
Documents are no longer static and unchanging. As the creation and
distribution of information become more collaborative, dynamic, and social,
and as application software evolves to support “mashups” that
combine both content and functionality from various sources, traditional
definitions of “documents,” their authorship, and their ownership
are becoming obsolete.... (more)
Dennis D. McDonald is a management consultant with special interests in project management, process improvement, information technology, IT department management strategy, and intellectual property management. Dr. McDonald has nearly 25 years’ experience in research, project management, and consulting company ownership. He has managed or participated in projects related to customer communications, customer system consolidation, cost-benefit analysis of copyright formalities, technology product marketing strategy, automation of scholarly publication, application portfolio consolidation, online parts catalogs, and call center system strategy. He earned his BA in Psychology at the Ohio State University and his MLS and PhD in Library and Information Science at the University of Maryland. He is currently an independent consultant, moderates the Linkedin Bloggers online group, and he is a member of the Podcast Roundtable. His weblog is called All Kind Food. Dr. McDonald lives in Alexandria, Virginia. His email address is: ddmcd@yahoo.com.
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