I am breaking up our discussion into two distinct parts. The first, this one, on the value of Microblogging. The second, a look at the future of Enterprise 2.0 and whether IT is going to participate or not.

Source: www.seekomega.com Posted by bee 743 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes ago

Why the 'Real-Time Web' Matters - A lot

@cshirky Sorry for saying I don't care about your passing thoughts (or mine, or anyone else's). Apparently, I do.

That was a tweet I sent out the other day, linking to the New York 140 Character Conference. Actually, the tweet was more like a caw, since I was eating crow. Back in 2008, I'd been trying to get NYU Professor Clay Shirky to explain to me why anyone could possibly give a crap about strangers' or friends' (or for that matter fantasy-sex-partners') micro-news that, for instance, they'd just boarded a plane to Tulsa.

Source: www.stumbleupon.com Posted by bee 745 days, 7 hours, 18 minutes ago

We seem to spend a lot of time and money on learning to understand Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Patterns to help make things easier and more intuitive for employees. It’s great when the strategy behind an Enterprise 2.0 Solution includes design and development elements that help employees connect to things and each other. These elements should have the employee feeling like the system can read their mind. This type of platform behavior does require a little effort. We already see these type of platform behaviors in the public space.

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Source: webtechman.com Posted by bee 747 days, 5 hours, 17 minutes ago

Offering up Enterprise 2.0 tools for business collaboration is easy. The tougher assignment for many IT executives in the months ahead will be managing the proliferation of platforms and technologies and demonstrating their benefits across the enterprise.

At most large businesses, consumer-driven technologies such as blogs, wikis and multimedia tools are finding a home in the corporate environment. For example, 14 percent of 861 global IT leaders surveyed by InformationWeek earlier this year said they want to increase employee productivity by using new collaboration tools.

"We are clearly at a tipping point for Enterprise 2.0 implementation," says Patty Caya, a researcher who co-authored a recent study with Jakob Nielsen for the Nielsen Norman Group. "Now we have to see if the benefits outweigh the risks."

Source: www.microsoft.com Posted by bee 747 days, 20 hours, 20 minutes ago

What they are; what’s next; and how to profit

It's been almost seven years since the term “Web 2.0” began its ascent into mainstream. Over this time it has become a frequent,yet controversial watchword for innovative new ways of using the network (intranet or Internet) in our own personal and business lives to create, collaborate, and share information.

Web 2.0 promulgates a vision of the next-generation Web as a place where billions of people interact online as the most potent creative force in history. But Web 2.0 itself is a complex vision that was originally defined by industry thought leaders who were attempting to capture what lies at the core of the most successful examples of what has happened over the 17 years of the public Web.

Source: www.aiimcommunities.org Posted by bee 749 days, 20 hours, 7 minutes ago

E-mail is the digital nervous system of most enterprises today. Without email, they would more or less stop ticking. The reason is simple: rapid access to information is crucial in today’s world, and e-mail is the main mechanism in an enterprise to make that information flow.

So how did this happen? Well, e-mail has many strengths and benefits that make it very fit for information-sharing, such as:

• It is a very rapid way of sharing of information
• It can be accessed from anywhere, using any device
• It is easy and convenient to use
• It is easy to target specific receivers

Source: www.aiimcommunities.org Posted by support 751 days, 18 hours, 27 minutes ago

Culture comes first, technology second

Be sure not to expect too much from Enterprise 2.0. At least not in the short run and from individual technology-driven initiatives.

A real and truly successful implementation of Enterprise 2.0 must be the result of concious and careful choices, supporting a transformation that has already been initiated. The transformation must guided by great leadership, carried out as an evolutionary process by the right people who know exactly what to do and ...

Source: www.thecontenteconomy.com Posted by bee 752 days, 20 hours, 48 minutes ago

I was talking about Enterprise 2.0 with the management team of a large publishing company a little while back, hitting all the familiar topics: ROI, risks and threats, whether Millennials really are different than older workers, and so on.

As I listened to their questions and comments, though, I heard another topic emerge, one that I realized I’d been hearing about for a while in one form or another without directly addressing or acknowledging it. This was the underwhelming result of most pilot projects, and the difficulties this posed to E2.0’s champions.

Source: andrewmcafee.org Posted by bee 755 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes ago

When it comes to internal communications, global technology giant Dell may have hit on the perfect storm: a social media platform, dubbed EmployeeStorm, which culls ideas from all of its business units and fosters discussion among employees.

Launched nearly a year ago, EmployeeStorm allows Dell’s worldwide community of more than 80,000 employees to post and discuss ideas on topics ranging from product upgrades and innovation to critiques of company policies, facilities improvements and benefits.

Source: www.thesocialworkplace.com Posted by bee 755 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes ago

Recently, I read the new business book by Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are you indispensible? which is a must-have for any modern person’s bookshelf. The major premise of the book is that there are no more great jobs that pay well where someone tells you what to do.

Let me repeat that, because jobs where someone tells you exactly what to do have been a stable of hierarchical organizations for a long time now. There are no more great jobs where someone tells you what to do.

The reason is that every job simple enough for a manager to tell their employees exactly what to do can be outsourced or automated, eventually. Even if you currently have a well-paying job where someone tells you what to do all day, how long will it last?

Source: www.aiimcommunities.org Posted by bee 755 days, 19 hours, 40 minutes ago