John Brunswick

Portal Content Personalization

March 19, 2010 | Enterprise Portal, InfotechAligned, Intranet, Portal, Relevancy, Software Development, Web 2.0

To make the most effective use of a portal and content management platform, personalization is a critical component of delivering the most value to end users. Regardless of what type of constituents you may be serving, content relevance is key to supporting business goals like self-service, communication within a geographically distributed organization, lead generation and customer loyalty...

Principles of Natural Participation

June 16, 2009 | 2 | Enterprise Portal, InfotechAligned, Software Development

* Originally published on BEA System’s Arch2Arch Community December 2007 and Portalsmag.com Organizations are beginning to recognize the value of deploying consumer Web tools to obtain basic benefits like internal knowledge sharing. This being said, they often overlook deeper benefits that the elements, and, more importantly, their methodologies of collaborative contribution can provide....

Facebook Development Workshop

June 11, 2009 | InfotechAligned, Software Development

This Boston Computing Review session covered the basics of software development within the Facebook platform. The group covered Facebook application architecture, use of Facebook Markup Language (FBML), Facebook Query Language (FQL) and Facebook APIs. During the session the team reviewed a sample application in detail that used FBML and the API to merge Facebook data with a standard PHP / MySQL...