Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is our Social Business collaborative lab where we engage and explore an ongoing discussion, share thoughts, opinions, and ideas on Social Business.
Becoming a Compliant Social Business
Blog PostFINRA, FDA, HIPAA, SARBOX and ITAR, are regarded as curse words in social media and workforce collaboration circles. People don’t want to say them. They don’t want to hear them and they really really don’t want the regulators to swing by for a “chat.” The outcomes created by this mentality are predictable: hesitancy when approaching new technology, over-engineered solutions that inhibit adoption and the pursuit of risky grassroots experimentation.
Communication as Work: In Real Life
Blog PostIn my last post I wrote about communication being an important aspect of knowledge work and decision making. I can sometimes get a little too academic with how things are supposed to work and so I thought I'd write a follow-up post that uses a concrete example (IRL for some) of how communication helped me and my colleague, Tom Cummings, just the other night. The setup here isn't that important other than to to say we were at the beginning stages of a new project and decided a brainstorming session was in order. We found an empty conference room, a whiteboard and started to get our ideas down.
Communication as Work
Blog PostA knowledge worker spends a good portion of the day communicating - meetings, status reports, emails, phone calls, water cooler talks. Much of this activity is considered unproductive overhead; when you look at a calendar full of meetings you wonder when you’re going to get any REAL work done. And while many popular forms of communication may be inefficient and ineffective, communication is work; perhaps the most important work knowledge workers do.
Reflections on the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Boston 2010
Blog PostI've had time to sit back and digest the great many discussions, meetings, and ideas circulating at this year's excellent Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, just over a week ago. For just about everyone I spoke with, there was a consensus that this was a special event this year and the industry has hit a new level of maturity. This was evident by the proliferation of vendors, major client-side success stories such as CSC's presentation on how they achieved over 50,000 registered internal users of their social community, and the 2.0 Adoption Council's outstanding all-day workshop of customer stories with concrete lessons learned about planning, advocacy, adoption, community management, ROI, and much more.
Communicating the Value of Social Business
Blog PostFor those who have been working in the social computing sphere the last few years, either externally or internally, it’s become abundantly clear to us that all business is becoming Social Business. For the rest of us who aren’t there yet, major change is still evident: The Web itself has become pervasively social as we’ve
Social Business Design. The Enterprise is Dead. Long Live the Enterprise.
Blog PostSocial Business Design: The Enterprise is Dead. Long Live the Enterprise. A Focused Enterprise for a Networked Economy.
Enterprise 2.0, Social Media Marketing, and Social Business Design
Blog PostHow do you refer to "this space"? If you're from a marketing or communications background, you likely refer to "Social Media Marketing." If you're from an IT background, you likely refer to "Enterprise 2.0." There's nothing wrong with these terms, but it's time for us to straighten out terminology, especially when it comes to Social Business Design.
