Making a CheckBoxList Read Only Without Greying it

Today I was attempting to create a Check Box list in asp.net to show the status of the files uploaded to the server. The Check Box should remain checked if the file is already in the server and unchecked if not present in the database.

Initially I tried the,

 CheckBoxList.Enabled = true;

which serve my purpose but it greys out the Check Box list  making the text hard to read. Also I found that CheckBoxList doesn’t have a Read Only Property. Finally after a lot of Googling I found out a solution for this so that the CheckBoxList cannot be unchecked or checked by the user and also is not grayed out.

Use the following Line to obtain the above mentioned feature.

CheckBoxList1.Attributes.Add(“onclick”, “return false;”);

Hope this Helps,

Kiran

Radio Benefiting from Web 2.0

About 10 years back radio was almost dying. In childhood I considered radio as a vintage item. But now radio is back. People always used to say about radio as something that always says something but never hear anything.

But now things are a lot changed. Radio is back and more are more people listen to it. Also it is not more something that just talk by itself. Radio’s become more interactive through telephone, email,and of course WEB 2.o.

How Web 2.0?

• Most radio stations uses facebook or some other social networking sites to interact with its customers.
• Radios even find out topics for next days discussion from the previous days facebook page.
• It conducts competitions through web 2.0 tools to keep the listeners more entertained.

There was an earlier myth that Internet is killing all other media. But with the advancement of web 2.0 , it is helping other media to grow too.

My Experiences With Social Media

ORKUT

Before even hearing the terms Web 2.0 and Social media , I have used the Social networking site orkut from Google. Not famous as Facebook and Twitter, Orkut is the number 1 social networking site in India and also famous in Brazil.

Orkut helped me a lot in keeping in touch with my friends and relatives. Users can send scraps between friends. Also it has option to send messages. I regularly used Orkut till it started imitating facebook as I did not find any reason to use both.

FACEBOOK

I first used facebook for the first time when I moved to Australia in 2008. The primary reason for that is the great popularity of facebook in Australia as it was essential to catch up with friends here. More additional features like creating events and inviting people for the events made life easier.

Privacy issues are everyones concern with facebook, but I never had any issues till now.

TWITTER

Twitter was first used for the Enterprise 2.0 unit. But in a short period of usage I find some other uses for it. I always like to know what some people say and i follow them. Some of the people I follow are Sachin Thendulkar, Barack Obama, etc.

LINKEDIN

Linked In looks more professional to me. Uploading my resume in a social media was something new to me. I am still experimenting with it and still not aware of how to benefit form it.

Corporate Use of Social Networks

Even though not all enterprises have an open mind related to the social networks , now a doays a lot of them are using social networks for varying purposes. In this blog I am going to look into some of the palces were social networks are used in the social space, with some case study if possible.

Recruitment

Many companies make use of social media for the purpose of recruitment. Encover was looking for a new Vice President for sales and after finding a candiate the CEO Chip Overstreet decided to have a back door check about this guys through LinkedIn. Chip was able to find people with whom he had worked in the last 5 of the 6 comapnies he has worked.Chip Says “It was incredibly powerful”.

Marketing

A field where social media is used widely by enterprises without much hesitation is Marketing. The main reason for this is the huge customer base with these social medias. The following presentation gives an insight into using social media is regulated businesses.

Will the ban on advertisement on Spirits and Cigarettes in countries likes India applies to Social media too? Or can they use social media as an alternative method to advertise?

Improving the Reputation of the Enterprise

Using a company blog to improve the reputation of the Enterprise is prise worthy. Small enterprises can initially give updates about their different initiatives through blogs. They can also use Twitters and Facebook for updating their status.  The social media can be used as a tool to improve the enterprises relation to the customers.

I know this list is small and a lot more can be added. I will add them when ever I come across them.

Further Reading

35+ Examples of Cooperate Social Media in Action

Most Corporate Social Media Efforts Will Fail

25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips

How To: Use Social media for Enterprise Business

25 Enterprise social media platforms

Why CEO’S are afraid of social media

Corporate use of Wiki’s

The following link explains in details some of the earliest successful of wiki’s in the cooperate space.

Corporate Wiki’s Go viral

Corporate wiki’s are internal wiki’s used inside the enterprises mainly to enhance internal knowledge sharing. The advantages of wiki’s are so wide that they are even used in projects management and marketing. Wiki’s allows corporate users to create a knowledge database which are easily assessable to all its employees.

Wiki’s can be used to build online information banks which can be directly edited by anyone who has access to it.Some of the corporates that uses wiki’s are SocialText, MindTOuch and some of the giant like Microsoft, Disney and

Sony.

Intelpedia , one of the first wikis that came into use was from Intel and was created by Josh Bancroft in 2005.Intelpedia is a private wiki internal to Intel.In april 2008 this wiki had about 25,000 pages and received about 100 million page views.About 8, people contributed to it. As per its creator , in the last four years ,it almost never had an incident of unwanted edit or spam issues.Intelpedia is managed by a voluntary group of Intel employes , the Intelpedia Distributed editors, which meets every week.

The Intelpedia is used in the following cases at Intel

• A page dedicated to company and Industry acronyms.
• Another pages  which provides self help guidance to Firefox.
• Also you can see information about intel’s sailing clubs, neighbourhood pickup football games etc.
• Recently they started using it to share their Twitter handles

Intel’s wikipedia was built on the MediaWiki, which is the same open source wiki that powers wikipedia. One issues that was faced by the wiki at Intel was many employees doesn’t want their work edited by other.Is this an issue faced during the initial stages wiki’s by all Enterprises?What are your comments about it?

References

http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/podcasts/guide_to_tech/guidetotech_03_12_07.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_wiki

http://www.industryweek.com/articles/seven_strategies_for_implementing_a_successful_corporate_wiki_15682.aspx

http://wiki.wetpaint.com/page/Corporate+Wikis

http://www.keeneview.com/2007/10/tragedy-of-corporate-wiki.html

http://www.socialmedia.biz/2010/07/08/the-story-of-intelpedia-a-model-corporate-wiki/

http://blog-en.tamtamy.com/tag/wiki/

My Experiences with Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of my favourite destinations while looking for information. When ever I hear something interesting and if I feel like ,I need to know more about it the first place I look for it is wikipedia. Wikipedia for me is a centralised source of information.

Some may say that wikipedia documents are not always correct. I too agree with that but wikipedia interface easily help us to identify those documents.

One thing I like about wikipedia is the cool advertisement free interface . Editing and contributing to the wikipedia is a cool option even though I haven’t tried them.

Would like to hear from you guys how you all benefit from wikipedia.

Government 2.0 : Links to some articles and example

The following are some links to articles related to government 2.0.
What Makes Government 2.0 Different from Enterprise 2.0?

Government 2.0 -Action Plan -VIctoria

What Coalition Politicians ‘get’ Government 2.0?

Ideas and suggestions on government 2.0- Here you can share your ideas and read suggestions by others and a lot more…..

Slow, slow little steps to Government 2.0

I will include more links to this as I come across them .

Business and Cooperate Blogging

Now a days  more are more business are using blogging and micro blogging to enhance their enterprise. Forrester research had recently conducted research on 90 blogs from fortune 500 companies and found out that most of the blogs from these companies and dull and less informative and some doesn’t even receive comments. A blog on this research can be found here. In this blog I wish to present some of the advantages and disadvantages of coorporate blogging.

Corporate Blogging Strategies
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Advantages

• Can be used as a best way for customer support by providing customer valuable information about the products.

This graphics shows the customer employee interaction in companies likes Macromedia and Microsoft. A great blog about this advantage can be seenhere

Customer -Employee Communication

• Cooperate and businesses are always away from the common people and blogs and micro blogs can take them closer to the common people.
• All business likes feedbacks and blogs and micro blogs help to get these feedback in a much more informal way.
• Blogs can be used by enterprises to sell their products. Earlier the hardest part of setting up a business is advertisement and now with blogging and micro blogging it becomes effortless.
• It creates a competitive environment for the different enterprises.
• It increases the search engine visibility of the Businesses.

Disadvantages

Advantages always comes with a pack of disadvantages. Blogging and Micro blogging also has it disadvantages

• An ugly blog an tarnish the image of the organisation in front of the public.
• It can leak business secrets if stricter rules are not in place regarding enterprise blogging.
• It the blogger is not aware of what to say and what not to say, it may cause legal and no legal issues to the enterprises.

Links

Cooperate blog

10 tips for cooperate blogging

Advantages of Cooperate blogging

Benefits of Corporate Blogging & The Bad Corporate Blogs

Google sees benefits in corporate blogging

A nice reading

Video interview about Co operate blogging

Blogging Tips and Tricks-A constructive Blog

Hi All,

My first ever blog was published only 5 weeks back and I am really happy with the fact that now I got almost 5 blogs in my credit. But I know only a very little about the great capabilities of this editor where I am currently typing. In the last 5 weeks I learned some of them ,thanx to those people who taught me through there comments. I will add those trick here and will acknowledge those generous people too.

Adding link that looks great

When I wrote my initial posts I just copies the link straight into the editor thinking that I will automatically become a link that can be click , but it never happened and I continued to do so till  Shaun Bergin (bergin_87@hotmail.com) taught me how to do it through the following comment.

“Hi Kiran, if you write the title of your link then highlight it, you can turn in into a live by clicking the button to the right of the right text align button and adding the address. It will make things much easier for your readers. “

I will leave this blog here and will add more tips and trick whenever I learn them. Also those who know can add there tips and tricks as comments and I will update the blog with those comments.

Cheers

Kiran

Legal Risks Associated with Enterprise 2.0 , Considering INN/INB 346 class

The possibility of legal risk associated with the class INN/INB 346 is really higher considering the fact that majority of the blogger’s in the class are totally new to the concept of blogging. Even though those legal issues are covered in the lecture , I don’t think one lecture is not good enough to understand all the legal issues that may arise.

I wish to mention some of the issues that might occur as a legal issue.

Defaming others

Since this unit assignment is marked based on the blogs, comments, and other active use of the social tools there is always a chance of comments or posts that may defame other students.

Plagiarism

There is a great chance of plagiarism to occur as in a shot time students has to transform from “never done a blog post in life time” to “actively posting at least one blog a week”. I don’t think this transformation is easier and some may tend to plagiarise. This can attract academic penalties as well as some legal risk if the real author intend to go for it.

That is all I want to mention here and all you can add your thoughts about other risks you can think of as comments.

Cheers

kiran