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March 30, 2004
Document Management for the Small Business
A friend of mine called and asked for document management solution recommendations for a small high-tech business with about 30-40 employees. They've been using a source code control for the purpose of managing versioning and control of Word documents. That works fine for the engineers, but the marketing people aren't really happy with the interface. I know there are some solutions in Zope to do this, and of course a Google search returns all kinds of commercial products that may or may not be appropriate. What do you recommend? I'm going to start a discussion in the Ask Phil forum for you to record your recommendations.
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I Wish...
I wish iTunes understood RSS feeds with MP3 enclosures.
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Expose' and Windows
I use OS X on a TiBook as my primary machine. When I review software, however, I frequently use Windows. Today, while on a Windows machine I was frantically moving the mouse into the lower left-hand corner to expose my running windows so I could find the one I wanted. Didn't work. :-) That's when you know a feature has taken hold of you.
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Four Approaches to Enterprise Identity Management
Andre Durand talks of four ways that an enterprise can consolidate islands of identity information. They can "centralize authentication and policy management (the EIM vendor approach), create a meta directory and manage id's through that, create a virtual directory (virtually centralized view of distributed data), or tether together (federate) distributed ID's." I'm trying to think of the implications of each approach to the enterprise and when one or the other might be appropriate.
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Federation Use Cases and Checklists
Ping Identity just released some slides giving use cases for federated identity and a checklist of business, legal and technology issues in federated identity projects. The use cases cover integrating hosted services, linking redundant internal accounts, secure collaboration, and attribute exchange. The pros and cons of Liberty and SAML in each instance are presented. There are even pictures. Very helpful in sorting this whole federation thing out.
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Grassroots Political Blogging
Last week I was elected chair of my precinct so I put together a blog to keep precinct members informed and for precinct officers and delegates to use for exchanging information and keeping up to date. We also set up a Yahoo! group. I used Movable Type since I already have an installation, but it would be trivial to do on Blogspot. Here's the blog Dave Fletcher put together for the American Fork 3rd Precinct using Blogspot. Blogs are a perfect vehicle for coordinating precinct activities because they're easy to keep up to date and the barriers to entry are low. This is where grassroots politics and the Internet intersect and a good way for the technically inclined to be involved in the political process. Volunteer to help your precinct put together a blog and maintain it.
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Digital Identity Management Summit in London
IIR will be hosting Europe's first first conference on Digital Identity management in July in London. There's a great list of topics and speakers including Simon Grice, Doc Searls, Jamie Lewis, and Phil Becker. Looks like a lot of fun.