“Will we allow anonymous postings? Boy, if you ever want to sidetrack an internal meeting about your intranet, this is a great question to ask. Whether it’s internally or for one of my clients, every time the question of anonymity comes up, there’s bound to be a fight....
How did you first learn how to join a team and start contributing? Where did you first learn leadership skills? When was the first time you learned conflict resolution? I don't know about you, but I first learned these skills as a little kid when I first joined the basketball team. ...
Do the top developers for Google’s Android operating system use Blackberries? Do the IT guys developing Windows 7 use Macs? Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs? These are purposely ridiculous questions – wouldn’t the best developers use...
So how did we get here? What forces of nature combined to make SharePoint the "do everything", "installed everywhere" solution that it has become today. It is probably best to take a look at the vision behind the original SharePoint concept. In my opinion, Microsoft was...
All of these situations are ones that I've witnessed, either internally with Booz Allen's hello.bah.com , our own implementation of Enterprise 2.0 tools, or with my clients
I’m excited to begin blogging on AIIM’s new SharePoint community site. I have long been a fan of AIIM and have participated as an AIIM Ambassador and class attendee. I’m grateful for this opportunity to interact with a large community of experts, administrators, users and...
In true social media fashion, here’s a little more about me in 140 character snippets: My inspiration for Enterprise 2.0 occurred when I first started using the Intelligence Community’s internal wiki, Intellipedia I was one of the first community managers for Booz Allen’s implementation of hello.bah.com, a behind-the-firewall Enterprise 2.0 platform It’s not about the technology, but what the technology enables Telling me that I can’t do something without explaining why not is a sure-fire way to get me to try to do it anyway I don’t maintain personal and professional personas – I’m Steve Radick whether you meet me at a meeting or at a bar I never cared for the seemingly arbitrary way power was distributed on an org chart – I think that’s one reason I like Enterprise 2.0 Transparency behind the firewall has allowed me to sidestep many of the political in-fighting that occurs when starting something new If I’m a successful social media consultant, there will be no need for me in a few years because it will just be something people do Successful social media initiatives are driven by the person, not the position I enjoy sitting down and talking with people just to get new ideas, not because I’m making a sale or because I have to Chris Brogan and Gary Vaynerchuk have been the inspiration behind much of my presentation and writing style I only cry at sports movies – you try to watch Rudy or Field of Dreams without tearing up!
Observation: People at large organizations tend to be like the passive-aggressive person who complains and complains about you about your mutual friends but will never actually have a conversation with you about what’s bothering him/her. I’ve seen this behavior many times -...
This is something that new employees at Booz Allen Hamilton hear from the very first day we’re hired
The consulting firm Booz | Allen | Hamilton gets a lot of well deserved attention for their use of Enterprise 2.0 to extend the usefulness of their intranet , Hello.bah