Commentary on Cisco Eos
Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang has a good, fair assessment on Cisco Eos at his web site Web Strategy by Jeremiah.
He’s got a good point:
as our research has indicated that community deployments are only 20% technology and the other 80% being process, roles, culture, measurement, and change management
Engineers hate to hear you say it, but changing human behavior is usually the harder part of the tech solution. That’s one reason CMSG has been working with several media companies over the last two years to understand their unique challenges, work flows, and opportunities to engage their audience. Doesn’t mean we got everything right with Eos, but we did design a robust administrative environment that media companies can use to consolidate and simplify the management of their broad portfolio of sites.
This is a first step in a longer journey.
Posted by Scott Brown at 10:17AM PST
David H. Deans Jan 8, 2009
With all due respect to Jeremiah, and his expertise in this field, the comparison with Pluck and KickApps stikes me as odd.
Pluck’s primary forte is working with traditional newspaper companies, and KickApps so far hasn’t targeted music and video entertainment companies.
Regardless, if there’s one lesson to be learned from the apparent success of Hulu.com, the opportunities in the emerging Entertainment related Social Media space are significant.
The fragmented market now includes many non-traditional players—some where Cisco already has a longstanding relationship, such as AT&T
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