Sat, 18 February 2006
What's Happening with RSS in an enterprise? With me today in our TalkingPortraits studio is Charlie Wood, the founding principal of Spanning Partners, which is an independent consulting firm specializing in enterprise applications of RSS and related technologies. I'm delighted and excited to dig in on this topic and learn more about what's happening in this area. There seem to be two groups right now: Those that are using RSS (developers, bloggers, podcasters and forward-thinking business-marketing types), and those that don't seem too excited or informed yet about the impact of RSS. Where do you fall? Lately I've become keenly interested in the deployment issues around RSS in enterprises - the big companies with IT groups that have significant investments in legacy CMS or CRM systems. I've run into a lot more difficulty than I would have predicted, mainly because the large system vendors aren't too interested in RSS. Why is that? These are the issues Charlie and I talk about. We have a concern that management in major enterprises is going to suddenly wake up one day to the fact that the use of RSS is all over the place, internally and externally, both in enterprises and throughout the groups their customers do business with. All of these people and groups would be using a hodgepodge of free or cheap online services that provide various types of RSS capabilities, and in ways that circumvent the in-house IT group. That's not a good thing - yes ... no ... what do you think? Are you seeing this becoming an issue in your organization? We touch on these topics, and I would appreciate hearing your comments. Charlie has wide-ranging experience with content management and syndication, including roles in software development, presales, sales, and product management. He intimately knows RSS at a marketing perspective and a programming level as well. A rare breed. Most recently Charlie served as vice president of enterprise solutions for NewsGator Technologies. Previously he was director of enterprise solutions at Stellent. Charlie also served as group product manager for content management and syndication at Vignette. Since June 2004, he has operated Moonwatcher (globelogger.com/moonwatcher), a blog covering the emergence of RSS in enterprises. Charlie holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas. He lives in Austin with his wife and twin boys. Direct download: TP-charles-wood-enterprise-rss-2006-02-20.mp3 Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:15 AM Comments[9]
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