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Entries in Enterprise 2.0 (51)
There's Nothing Wrong with the Social Networking Industry that Some Honest (Cost) Information Won't Fix
Jeremiah Owyang’s LiveBlog: What’s Wrong with the White Label Social Networking Industry?, especially if you read the comments, delivers a good snapshot of the gaps that still exist between product evangelism and the realities of implementing specialized online social networks.
Some Suggestions for Fixing Corporate Email
In my recent post Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email I listed questions management should ask about corporate email to help plan for adoption of more modern collaborative software applications. The idea behind that post was simple:
Howlett Makes Some Good Points About Enterprise Web 2.0 Adoption
Dennis Howlett’s The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media, once you get past the hyperbole of the title and ZDNet’s antiquated requirement to register in order to leave comments, makes some good points.
Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email
This document discusses some of the questions you can ask about your organization’s current use of email and how improvements can be made. Also discussed is email’s impact on the adoption of new tools more suited to supporting workgroups and collaboration such as blogs, wikis, and groupsites for sharing information about people and projects.
Are Collaboration Tools Part of the IT Infrastructure or Part of the Application Portfolio?
I was interviewed yesterday by a Forrester Research staff member about how CIO’s (Chief information Officers) should approach the implementation of collaboration tools (click here for a list of blog posts related to “collaboration”). We talked about the usual adoption issues related to “web 2.0” applications within the enterprise.
Project Management, Social Media, and Defining "Community"
As a continuation of our Conversation about Project Management and Social Media, Lee White in his recent post Project Community states the following: The point here is not that Social Media, as discussed in earlier posts, directly drives efficiencies, but that it can create a community of project stakeholders that are passionate about the successful completion of a project.
Using Internal Social Media to Address Corporate M&A-Related Stress
Michael Auzenne’s comment on my post Incorporating Social Networking Systems with Mergers & Acquisition Planning struck a chord:
Associations, Management Control, and the Role of Social Media Tools
Jamie Notter’s post Web 2.0: Participation, Trust, and Beta comments on an earlier post by Virgil Carter titled Web 2.0: Culture, Belief System, or Tool-Kit?
Dennis McDonald's Blog's Top Ten Posts of 2007
Here are my blog’s Managing Technology posts for 2007, sorted in descending order by the unique page views recorded by Google Analytics.
Architecting Online Systems for User Experience, Happiness, and Buying Shoes
In September of this year Michael Platt, director of Web Architecture Strategy in the architecture strategy group at Microsoft, published Architecting for Happiness. In it he stated:
