Enterprise 2.0

Enterprise 2.0, Policies and Compliance

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 5:26 pm

Mike Gotta asked me to join him on a panel about the policy and compliance issues at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. This was my fifth Enterprise 2.0 conference: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2009 San Francisco. That the audience was interested in compliance and regulatory issues is an indication of the industry maturing. “Policy formation,… » Read More

Snake Oil 2.0

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 2:25 pm

From Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void: “Anyone who has spent a lot of time studying blogs and Web 2.0, will be fully aware of all the blethering hyperbole that comes with it. Every business model that ever came before is DEAD, to be replaced forever by community! YAY! Well, some dinosaur business models may be… » Read More

Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston

Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Next month, I’m attending the Enterprise 2.0 Conference happening June 14-17 at the Westin Boston Waterfront. This will be fifth Enterprise 2.0 conference: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2009 San Francisco. I’ll be talking about social media policies with these folks: Mike Gotta, Principal Analyst, Burton Group Bruce Galinsky, IT Director, Global Insurance Company Abha Kumar, Principal,… » Read More

Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Session Proposals

Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 12:00 pm

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is coming back to Boston on June 14-17.  They are letting attendees vote on the sessions. This is a great way for the conference organizers to take advantage of 2.0 tools in organizing the conference. I am part of two panels, if they get approved. If either of them interest you,… » Read More

Perception, Dilbert and a Magical Management Necklace

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 7:00 am

Are your assumptions correct? You get a new tool to help manage your processes and everything starts working better. Is everything actually working better? Or is the data just being manipulated to look better? As is often the case, the pointy-haired boss can show us the problem. Often the compliance officer is like the pointy-haired… » Read More

Enterprise 2.0 – The Book

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 7:00 am
Enterprise 2.0 by Andrew mcafee

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Andrew McAfee handed out a few copies of this new book: Enterprise 2.0. I was one of the recipients of a shiny new copy with his autograph on the cover page. If you have heard of Enterprise 2.0, they you have heard of McAfee. He coined the… » Read More

Criticism and Praise

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 7:00 am
drunkards walk

Do criticism and praise work to affect performance? Leonard Mlodinow briefly addressed this topic in The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. He explores the studies of Daniel Kahneman who was lecturing the Israeli air force flight instructors on behavior modification. Kahneman was trying to make the point that rewarding positive behavior works, but… » Read More

PBWorks and Real Time Collaboration

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 8:00 am
PBworks_Logo

PBWorks has announced a “Real-time Collaboration Update”  which brings integrated Instant Messaging collaboration, Live Notifications (activity streams), Live Editing (rather than standard wiki asynchronous editing) and integrated Voice Collaboration with on-demand voice conferencing. This is a big step up. Instead of being a  mere wiki, the platform now offers different ways to collaborate, but still… » Read More

The One Year Club: Five Things Companies Learn After a Year of Enterprise 2.0 Adoption

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
enterpise 2.0

I’m attending the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. I’m sharing my notes from this session. At the outset, organizations are often eager and excited about the benefits they anticipate from cultivating adoption and use of social and collaborative tools. But talk to those same organizations six months or one year after they’ve started, and… » Read More

Straight from the Horses’ Mouths

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
enterpise 2.0

I’m attending the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. I’m sharing my notes from this session. The 2.0 Adoption Council presents the market’s first in-depth research on a representative sample of early adopters in large organizations. This session will cut to the chase on issues that have plagued pundits and vendors alike. Carl Frappaolo, Co-founder… » Read More