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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.

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.

Words often have more than one meaning. Wiki is definitely one of those words, with different meanings for different people. Dan Woods explores wiki taxonomy in his JargonSpy column, published on Forbes.com.

Dan Woods' JargonSpy column, published on Forbes.com, examines the world of agile programming methods, including eXtreme Programming (XP) and Scrum, with a look at the Agile Manifesto. More »

Dan Woods is a featured blogger on Forbes.com. His JargonSpy blog was launched on July 28 and the first installment, called Serious Shadow Games, delves into the phenomenon of shadow IT.

One of the favorite ideas that occurred to me when I wrote Wikis for Dummies was the notion of a Tom Sawyer wiki, one of the sure-fire paths to failure if you are attempting to launch a wiki. More »