Comments for Series of Tubes http://matthewschwartz.me Just another WordPress site Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on UTMy: Converting UTM Geodata to Latitude / Longitude by National Register of Historic Places Geocoded « Series of Tubes http://matthewschwartz.me/2011/01/utmy-converting-utm-geodata-to-latitude-longitude/#comment-4 National Register of Historic Places Geocoded « Series of Tubes Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:53:04 +0000 http://www.schwartzlink.net/?p=159#comment-4 [...] make use of this data I built a few ruby scripts that carry out the conversion between UTM and our standard, loveable lat / [...] [...] make use of this data I built a few ruby scripts that carry out the conversion between UTM and our standard, loveable lat / [...]

]]> Comment on Open Source in Obama’s Gov 2.0? by Jeff http://matthewschwartz.me/2009/01/open-source-in-obamas-gov-20/#comment-3 Jeff Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:48:49 +0000 http://www.schwartzlink.net/?p=82#comment-3 Good post Matthew. It's nice to read about a more moderate approach to adopting open source - certainly its not a perfect fit in all instances. I actually came across this post through an alert in my rss reader, coincidentally enough, at the same time that an "open letter" from one of our vendors, Jitterbit, also hit. The CEO of Jitterbit, quite obviously aboard the open source bandwagon wrote an <a href="http://www.jitterbit.com/blog/an-open-letter-barack-obama-why-open-source-solution-our-open-government-01-23-09" rel="nofollow">open letter to President Obama urging him to consider open source</a>. Jitterbit is an open source integration solution we use in-house here alongside plenty of other proprietary applications. Ironically we use open source to connect a bunch of different proprietary systems that otherwise wouldn't talk to each other. Clearly you don't need to go all open source in order to save money, as the two worlds actually work pretty well together. In selecting Jitterbit we compared it other proprietary options - in this case open source won. In other cases, such as our CRM system, Salesforce beat out SugarCRM. Here's hoping the new administration picks its IT infrastructure based on effectiveness not buzzworthiness. Good post Matthew. It’s nice to read about a more moderate approach to adopting open source – certainly its not a perfect fit in all instances. I actually came across this post through an alert in my rss reader, coincidentally enough, at the same time that an “open letter” from one of our vendors, Jitterbit, also hit. The CEO of Jitterbit, quite obviously aboard the open source bandwagon wrote an open letter to President Obama urging him to consider open source.

Jitterbit is an open source integration solution we use in-house here alongside plenty of other proprietary applications. Ironically we use open source to connect a bunch of different proprietary systems that otherwise wouldn’t talk to each other. Clearly you don’t need to go all open source in order to save money, as the two worlds actually work pretty well together. In selecting Jitterbit we compared it other proprietary options – in this case open source won. In other cases, such as our CRM system, Salesforce beat out SugarCRM.

Here’s hoping the new administration picks its IT infrastructure based on effectiveness not buzzworthiness.

]]> Comment on Business Case Uses for Enterprise Wikis by Abbe http://matthewschwartz.me/2008/12/business-case-uses-for-enterprise-wikis/#comment-2 Abbe Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:25:00 +0000 http://www.schwartzlink.net/?p=75#comment-2 You've done a really great job here detailing some of the key reasons enterprise wikis are a successful way companies are improving collaboration and knowledge management. It's important for companies integrating wikis to be able to spark a high degree of employee adoption. (http://wikisunleashed.blogspot.com/2008/10/content-is-king.html) There are a lot of informational resources and some free trials available for companies wanting to investigate wikis. That's a good first step. SamePage 30-day trial: https://samepage.spwiki.com/wikiReg/jsp/registration.jsp You’ve done a really great job here detailing some of the key reasons enterprise wikis are a successful way companies are improving collaboration and knowledge management. It’s important for companies integrating wikis to be able to spark a high degree of employee adoption. (http://wikisunleashed.blogspot.com/2008/10/content-is-king.html)
There are a lot of informational resources and some free trials available for companies wanting to investigate wikis. That’s a good first step.

SamePage 30-day trial: https://samepage.spwiki.com/wikiReg/jsp/registration.jsp

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