Archive for May, 2010
Understanding the traffic – Page rank relationships
May 25th, 2010 | 
Author: Anthony from Noble Samurai has put together a really nice video which describes how page rank drives traffic. If you don’t understand this basic principle, you’ll forever be in the dark.
If you don’t use Market samurai, the slide are still useful. If you don;t know what Market Samuari is – then heres some further info.
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List of BPM technologies
We had a brain storm and came up with a list of all the BPM technologies that are now on the market
With any luck if I have time for it, I might pad this out with some notes on what they’re all like.
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Livecycle ES2 Suite
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Interstage
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Websphere Business Modeler, BlueWorks
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ARIS
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Visio 2010 Beta
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Visual Process Manager
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Netweaver
Facebook Backlash; talk of mass exodus
It started just two days ago when a friend updated her facebook page with concerns over the latest round of privacy settings. Facebook is no stranger to critisism in this area so at the time I didn’t pay much attention to it.
Two news articles later in the Australian press as well as talk of an investigation by the Australian Privacy watch dog and I was ready to find out more. Following on from the tragic murder of a young women in Australia by a facebook stalker, users have payed closer attention to their privacy settings. The problem is there are over 50 different settings in multiple dispersed locations over the site according to the telegraph.
Whilst its great to have this level of control, it just isn’t practically possible to administer this, especially when your privacy controls are modified so frequently.
The SMH here linked to several sites of interest. Most disturbing is ‘your open book’, a stalkers paradise to highlight the sort of information that people share about them selves. The ‘recently searched’ area is not for the faint hearted and is a real eye opener to hwat people are looking for online. On second thoughts perhaps that’s no great surprise. I’ve chosen not to link to it.
Next are some sites with browser add ons to help you analyse your profile and how to get the most secure settings.
Pressure is mounting on the Facebook management through an organised group at 
http://www.quitfacebookday.com/
So what does it all mean? Will I be closing my account? No I don’t think so but I will be locking down my settings and monitoring the situation over the next few weeks, as well as looking out for an email from one Mark Zuckerberg.
Their PR department is most likely in overdrive.
Taking the Guess Work out of Business Process Improvement Workshop
Here’s a great offer for senior managers who are looking either to get started in process modelling or to take things up a notch.
Synoptic Consulting are offering Sydneysiders a 60 minute process modelling workshop to demonstrate how to optimise process design using some of the tricks and techniques that we use with our customers. They will use a process modelling tool with a process of your choice to make this as useful and practical as possible.
Attendees find this session both inspiring and practical to take away and start making significant improvements to process design. The session is free of charge to businesses in Sydney Metro until the end of June 2010.
To find out more and to check your eligibility, please contact davidb@synoptic.com.au
You cannot teach BPM, you have to experience it first to understand it
Here’s a quick share of an article by Redux, that I thought BPMer might find useful.