As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. "We'll have our own Wikipedia!" Or Facebook…or Twitter – you name it....
This post originally appeared on my blog, "Social Media Strategery." "Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals." - Clay Shirky at TED Cannes in June 2010 This is one of my favorite quotes...
Let's do an experiment. Take five minutes and do a quick search of your organization's blogs, microblogs, wikis, and forums that are available behind your firewall - and then let me know what the most popular topics are. Do they involve "social media," "Web 2.0," ...
Ever hear the phrase “Drive for Show, Putt for Dough?” It’s time-honored sports cliche that refers to the oohs and ahhs that a huge golf drive off the tee will elicit from the crowd. However, despite all the attention a big drive gets and hundreds of dollars a good driver costs, that shot is...
A short history of personal computing. [A note: Before I get a lot of email, personal pronouns in this presentation vary by paragraph. I know it. It's on purpose.] Once upon a time there was a worker in an organization. The worker longed to contribute what he knew to help...
I “borrowed” this headline from a twitter entry by Sameer Patel (Sameer Patel (@SameerPatel) 6/29/10 3:11 PM - When you locate the organizations Chief Un-Silo Officer, please let me know #e20 #CIO.). Sameer is being a bit cynical maybe but it captures the essence of many of the discussions I...
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 -...
I'm a big fan of the TWIG ( This Week in Google ) podcasts hosted by Leo Laporte and usually featuring Jeff Jarvis (author of What Would Google Do? ) and Gina Trapani (author of The Complete Guide to Google Wave ) and a random guest or two. On one of the recent shows (can't...
Christian Finn from Microsoft (and he could also be a stunt double for Steve Ballmer ) gave an interesting presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on how they scaled their internal podcasting initiative -- called "Academy Mobile." Among the keys to success... Give people the...
I greatly enjoyed Andrew McAfee's keynote at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. During the keynote, he discussed 4 tensions that currently exist in the E2.0 space. Tension #1 -- "Cargo Cult vs. Infrastructure" During the years following World War II in the Pacific, observers...
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