Coté at the People over Process blog has an interesting series going on about Management by Feeds in response to Marshall’s recent post here pointing out some of the areas that might make Management by Feeds difficult to adopt.

I have some strong opinions on the points Coté raises here that I plan to post a little later on once I have the time to write them, but in the mean time, check out his posts:

Part 1: Feed Filtering

Part 2: Getting Social Behind the Firewall

Part 3: The RSS Golden Hammer

My favorite quote so far:

we’re trying to use the software to strengthen the social bond that you would otherwise build face to face. As I said early on, this is one of my key understandings/desires of social software: a proxy and amplifier for what you would do face-to-face.

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Marshall Kirkpatrick over at the Social Software Blog (who I hear might be making a guest appearance on this blog soon) recently pointed us to the Moonwatcher Blog, which is the personal blog of Charlie Wood, who also formed an interesting company called Spanning Partners. Both sites are dedicated to covering the emergence of RSS in the Enterprise.

Its true, RSS as a technology is starting to creep into even big enterprise company’s plans. So how does RSS in the Enterprise relate to Management by Feeds?

RSS is a technology. It’s a way of publishing information. To use RSS, you need tools like Mailroom, Basecamp, and Spanning Salesforce to expose the data inside your company through RSS. Management by Feeds is how you use those feeds to make better decisions in less time.

Spanning Partners looks to be doing some important work in helping companies who have already spent the money to deploy big enterprise apps make information from those apps available through RSS. If you use Salesforce, in particular, its worth a look.

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