I just wish that Patrick Lambe would be on Twitter. I surely do! That man has got plenty of golden nuggets to share around the topics of Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, Communities, Learning and Enterprise 2.0 to just be scattered around in multiple blog posts alone. Here and there.

He has been one of my favourite KM bloggers for years and just wished he would, finally, jump the shark and join us inside the lovely waters of the Twitter river streams. Have you checked out one of his most recent blog posts on Why is Knowledge Sharing Important? If you haven’t, you should! It will certainly help you understand why knowledge sharing is just so critical for organisations to survive in the 21st century.

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This week I am channeling the wisdom of Christy Schoon--and adding a bit of my own. Schoon, director of business consulting at NewsGator, makes her living helping companies improve collaboration by implementing NewsGator's social media solution.

NewsGator's products use Microsoft SharePoint as a foundation, so Schoon often finds herself in situations in which companies have been attempting to get collaboration going for many years. Based on her experience in hundreds of client engagements, she has developed a top 10 list of mistakes that she has seen over and over again when companies try to travel the road to Enterprise 2.0.

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I was very pleased to receive a review copy of The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. Tony is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). Marcia is a Partner at Altimeter Group, founder of the Twitter chat #lrnchat, and she writes the Fast Company column “Learn at All Levels.”

Getting a chance to read this timely work was exciting for several reasons. I began my consulting career in the learning space in the 80s and have remained convinced of its importance for accelerating business performance.

I presented at several ASTD sessions during this period. Marcia was also a colleague of mine at Pistachio Consulting where we did some projects together. I had a chance to review an earlier version of one of the chapters of this book. But most importantly, it is the first book I have seen to help organizations understand and harness the huge workplace learning potential of social media and enterprise 2.0.

Source: www.fastforwardblog.com Posted by support 991 days, 23 hours, 27 minutes ago

The best way of course to search for up-to-date Enterprise 2.0-News is to throw on the Google search engine. Another additional way is to use the Google Blog Search function as it specifically allows you to search through current Enterprise 2.0 news on the most common blogs available on this topic.

Topic Blogs (e.g. Enterprise 2.0 Blogs) have risen to an excellent way of getting a quick overview as well as a deeper understanding of a topic you have not known much about before. So for people who are new...

Source: milosvujnovic.blogspot.com Posted by enterprisezweinull 992 days, 17 hours, 54 minutes ago

Well kids, the month has come to an end, and thus, so has our extra-focused focus on enterprise collaboration.

Hopefully you've garnered enough information over the last few weeks to make a decision that's right for you, but, just in case you need it, here's a last look at a few platforms that specialize in the social side of things...

• Jive Software
• Telligent
• SharePoint 2010 + NewsGator
• Drupal
• INgage Networks
• SocialText
• Mzinga
• Atlassian
• Awareness

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by support 992 days, 22 hours, 16 minutes ago

Riveting article on Bloomberg / Businessweek about how leaders really don’t want employees to innovate. Rather: “Businesses need most of their workers to carry out their primary duties with enthusiasm and consistency,” writes Pat Lencioni”

As to how organizations should lead and execute, the article opines in two seperate areas:

“What should leaders do? Be more open to new ideas from employees? Probably not. Better yet, they should stop overhyping innovation to the masses and come to the realization that only a limited number of people in any company really needs to be innovative

As heretical as that may seem to those who want to believe that "innovation is everyone’s business," consider that even the most innovative and creative organizations need far more people to be dutiful, enthusiastic, and consistent in their work than innovative or creative.

If you’ve read this blog before, you’ll know that I’m all for respecting the realities of how organizations operate today and...

Source: www.pretzellogic.org Posted by bee 993 days, 12 hours, 39 minutes ago

My previous post here highlighted the smart practices that the digital-native Millennials are bringing to the workplace. Here I want to talk about a couple not-so-smart ones.

The first is simple oversharing. I wrote before how narrating your work is a very smart strategy because it lets you be helpful to others, and also increases the chances that they can help you. But narrating your every opinion, emotion, lunch, happy hour, hangover, etc. on your company's emergent social software platforms is just narcissistic clutter....

Source: blogs.hbr.org Posted by bee 993 days, 21 hours, 11 minutes ago

If you spend any time reading about enterprise software these days, headlines and phrases like this have become pretty common:

• Social software is an entirely new way to work!
• We can break free of the tyranny of email.
• Web 2.0 is so much easier to use than those clunky old enterprise applications – and Enterprise 2.0 means we don’t have to use them any more.

Passionate evangelism often stimulates new movements. Enterprise 2.0 has been no exception. Our company played a big part ...

Source: www.socialtext.com Posted by admin 997 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes ago

Social media use in the workplaces, for work purposes, is gathering steam. IBM is one of several large companies that offer an integrated collection of collaboration and social media technology. Its Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections technology create a collaborative dial tone that brings the benefits of social media, wikis, blogs, micro-blogs and real-time messaging to the corporate world.

Jeff Schick, vice president for social software at IBM, is in charge of these products. Building on the thread began in my column "Giving Shape to Collaboration Tech," I asked Schick to explain how this new generation of Enterprise 2.0 technology allows knowledge and processes to be captured and defined gradually.

Here's some of our discussion:

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Enterprise 2.0 has been cited by analysts, vendors and consumers as one of the most important emerging trends in business technology in the last decade. Yet we still haven’t witnessed a glut of measurably successful Enterprise 2.0 deployments.

This is not a measurability problem — it stems primarily from the rampant misapplication of consumer technologies in the form of point applications. As the name indicates, Enterprise 2.0 requires enterprise-ready technologies. This requires more than tossing handfuls of disconnected and undirected blogs, forums, social networks, micro-blogs and wikis into the enterprise. Indeed, successful Enterprise 2.0 deployments begin by focusing on business problems and succeed by creating an integrated enterprise solution.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by support 999 days, 55 minutes ago