Enterprise 2.0 — Boston — Business Powered by Collaboration
It’s June, so I’m in Boston again for the annual Enterprise 2.0 conference. The conference runs this week Monday – Thursday. I’ve come to four of these conferences now. Each time I get the sense that the organizers are steadily refining how they present the idea of “Enterprise 2.0″ since the term itself really doesn’t mean [...]
Integrating Social Media Technologies to Increase Business Success: A Report from Innotech Oregon
Do you work in a society of strangers? Don’t know? Then tell me if this sounds like your experience at work: You’re working on a project and would like to know who else in the organization has worked on a similar project in the past. You encounter a problem on your project that you need [...]
We’re So Excited to Learn About Enterprise 2.0 — Part 2
This is the second in a series of posts in which I will attempt to offer some useful answers to some real questions about Enterprise 2.0 (including what it is and what it is not) posed by a company I recently consulted with. You can look at the first post in this series to see the full text of the [...]
4 Benefits of Social Computing: Do Companies Know They Need These?
In October of 2009 I spoke to an audience of HR professionals at the Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM) Strategy Conference in Phoenix, AZ on the topic of developing a social computing strategy for their businesses (look here to see what I told them). I recently received my evaluations from that session and among [...]
In Defense of Social: Enterprise 2.0 Social Technologies Are Critical, Not Casual
A while back I posted some thoughts here about how the word “social” can sometimes undermine executive enthusiasm for Enterprise 2.0. “Social” is too often equated with “frivolous”. In that post I made the argument that we could dispense with the word “social” altogether and start referring to Enterprise 2.0 tools not as “social media” [...]
