Category Archives: Concepts

General thoughts, musings and theory about social media and how it may impact organizations.

Moment of Clarity

June 19, 2008 – 10:09 am

I think everyone has those moments when all of the little threads of information and experience come into alignment and you get a moment of clarity. It is a great feeling. It just happened to me coming out of the Enterprise 2.0 conference last week.
Overall the conference was great, if for nothing more than the people […]

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It’s about the People…

June 5, 2008 – 3:39 pm

Vanderwal at Personal InfoCloud just posted Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success. In a nutshell, he discusses the “four rings of enterprise social tools” and how they must work in conjunction in order to achieve success. His four rings are:

Tools
Interface & Ease of use
Sociality
 Encouraging Use

He portrays the four rings as a Venn diagram, focusing on the intersecting sections […]

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Engagement & Productivity

June 5, 2008 – 3:15 pm

Engagement is a tricky word. Often used and rarely agreed as to what it means. Funny how words can be that way. But if we have a conversation about its meaning, we can at usually come to a mutually agreed working definition.
One of the bits of wisdom I have picked up over the years is that […]

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Enterprise 2.0 Behaviors

June 3, 2008 – 9:29 am

I think (and hope) that the Enterprise 2.0 discussion is evolving from a technology discussion to a behavioral one. I am seeing leaders like Sam Lawrence from Jive Software talking more and more about this. In his post, “On Social Networks, nobody thinks you’re a dog”, Sam says
The most important underpinnings of a social network is […]

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Allow Freedom of Content

May 28, 2008 – 4:52 pm

I was reading Andrew McAfee’s latest post, and came across this quote:
…while most organizations are drowning in many kinds of data they are simultaneously starved for vitally important information…
and it hit me that this is a really important point. While organizations do generate a lot of information, they still seem to try and limit information flow under […]

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