Simple wins. Oscar Berg explores this concept in his latest Enterprise 2.0 Community blog post “ How to Design for Adoption ”. Oscar makes the point that the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 tools always represents a change for the intended user so you should make that change...
In June I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. At the time, I reported on my company blog that, finally, the conversation among the E2.0 kool-aid drinkers at the conference was getting practical. They were actually talking about how to maximize ROI on social collaboration...
Don’t believe me. Unless you do believe me. Make up your own mind. That’s how I’ll be starting my presentation this Friday, October 15 th , when I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Palooza here in Seattle. SharePoint Palooza is billed as “All You Can Eat...
The Importance of Diversity to Innovation “OK, next question,” said the interviewer across the conference table from me. She’s an HR executive and I’m participating in her survey of business leaders. “How important is innovation to your company’s...
The Challenge of Internal Communications I recently joined a local roundtable group here in Seattle made up of business leaders focused on the challenges of internal business communications. In preparing for our first meeting the organizers asked that we each name our most pressing...
What are 5 Reasons a company should employ social media tools behind their firewall? That was the question I used to frame my remarks at the Microsoft Alumni Network/Social Media Club Seattle social media seminar last Thursday night. I co-presented with Jeff Shuey who blogs here in the...
Consider this: who should drive the formation of social business communities within your company? Who should be responsible for promoting communities and nurturing them and cultivating the connections that can form within them? I believe that the group that has the most significant vested...
I am convinced that social business technology can be a major part of a company’s efforts to increase employee engagement. The connections seem very clear to me. 4 Key Engagement Principles Terrence Seamon , a Training & Organization Development consultant,...
We live in an interesting time. The culture around content creation is growing more open, more free. But compliance requirements are not. Thanks to social media, blogs, wikis, discussion forums, instant messaging, microblogging and other emerging collaboration tools, people other than...
For all the success of individual technologies, the array of technology in a person’s life can be daunting. Increasingly, individuals choose products and services that are highly-personalized, focused on the end-to-end experience delivered by that technology. Products must deliver a...