Alan Cox on Community and The Enterprise

Alan Cox recently discussed his views on Community and the Enterprise for Red Hat Magazine. Alan goes into some detail about his history at Red Hat, his background with Linux and how he helped create the Red Hat subscription model.

Release of Coloring Outside The Lines

Darren Herman’s new book; Coloring Outside The Lines is being released next week on 12 March 2008.  Darren’s book will focus on lessons he has learned while building up and mentoring very successful digital media and technology companies in Silicon Alley.

I first had a chance to converse with Darren about a year ago when I was researching a new web designer for Applation. I have found Darren to be an extremely bright and well connected entrepreneur and what really sets him apart is that he is truly interested in working with and helping other entrepreneurs.

The proceeds from the book will be invested in entrepreneurs in Asia and Africa.

Sun completes Community Equity Specification

 
One of the aspects of social media in the enterprise that has been hard to quantify is Community Participation. There are a number of arbitrary measurements that Enterprise 2.0 solutions providers and end users have cobbled together but up until recently there has not been a tried and proven method to calculate community participation.

To solve this vexing issue, Peter Reiser and the team at Sun have completed and filed a patent on the Community Equity Specification.

The Community Equity Specification has an algorithm that capture 2 variables - information equity (IQ) and personal equity (PEQ). Sun defines IQ as the social activities around information that is calculated into a numeric value which represents the importance, relevance  and quality of a information. PEQ is a numeric value calculated for an individual that helps recognize their achievements and their participation in a community.

The PEQ algorithm looks to be the most complex aspect of the specification and is probably the piece of the specification that Sun has filed the patent on.

Sun has the specification in pilot stage and it will be interesting to see how Sun goes about releasing the specification for use once the pilot and beta testing is complete.