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In an article titled Essential reading, books every CIO should have, the website CIO lists the Mesh Collaboration book as an invaluable resource for today's CIOs. Yet another testament to the impact the book is having.

In his October 15 article titled The Future of Wiki Books and The Business Process Community: Talking with SAP, Peter Schoof of Ebiz interviews Dan Woods, founder of Evolved Media, and Marco ten Vaanholt, the head of SAP's Business Process Expert Community, about the Process First book, which ten Vaanholt coauthored along with help from the BPX Community and Evolved Media. More »

Dan Woods has an illuminating article on Forbes.com this week that advances the notion that some of us may experience "collaboration fright" when it comes to communicating our thoughts and ideas to an audience beyond our regular "safe" networks. More »

In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods discusses the economics and business models behind smart services: services that can be used to let machines in offices and factories communicate when they need "tune-ups" to operate more efficiently. More »

At SAP TechEd 2008, Michael Coté of RedMonk, who has a blog called People Over Process, interviewed Craig Cmehil, who is the community evangelist for the SAP Developer Network. During the video interview, Cmehil talks about what's happening with the SAP Developer Clubhouse, RIA in SAP-land, and how the Process First book was created.

A blog called Service Oriented Enterprise has a post titled Talking to the Business About SOA, which touches on some of the challenges organizations face when trying to approach the business side about SOA. At the end of the post, the author begins discussing mashups, and goes on to recommend Mashup Corporations: The End of Business As Usual, which Dan Woods coauthored. More »

Organizations today are starting to look at ways to better design their processes through the right combination of BPM, SOA, and the BPX (Business Process Expert) role in order to achieve greater efficiency at all levels with their companies. But there are many challenges that face these enterprises, such as the achieving the proper relationship between business and IT. Dan Woods examines these these challenges in another of his JargonSpy columns on Forbes.com. And a few days after this column appeared, the folks at ITBusinessEdge took notice and outlined the tips Dan suggests for companies looking to better integrate BPM and SOA. For more information on the Business Process Expert role, see Process First.

Finding what you're looking for at home? The answer is probably Google. But what about at work? Who has "that PowerPoint" you saw with a really good graphic? How can you find detailed information about all the touchpoints with a key account? Enterprise search differs from search on the Web in important ways, and Dan Woods explores these differences in his JargonSpy column on Forbes.com. The column must have hit a nerve; it was picked up the same day on TechMeme.

In her blog, Lora Bentley responds to Dan Woods's column on Commercial Open Source, a column that has generated the most responses of any of the JargonSpy columns to date on Forbes.com.

Lora writes about a wide range of open source issues in her blog on IT Business Edge, which is called, intriguingly, "Open for Business."

Cloud computing is on the minds of many these days. But there's not really just one cloud. Dan Woods delves into the implications of various kinds of clouds from several perspectives, including the regulatory aspect and quality of service, in his JargonSpy column on Forbes.com.