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.
Converging on the Social Enterprise
Blog PostI was in San Francisco last week for Dreamforce, the yearly confab for Salesforce that has had a major focus on social business the last couple of years. There's little doubt that Marc Benioff clearly sees the very near future of business, and it's something he calls the social enterprise. While you can read my blow-by-blow of the opening presentation, which was one of the most impressive cases for becoming a social enterprise yet made in my opinion, the process of social business transformation is a complex one and isn't going to be made so explicitly by many firms.
The impact of social media on IT
Blog PostYesterday I explored in detail on ZDNet some of the issues that businesses are encountering as social media moves into the enterprise space in a truly strategic way this year. Not only is there a proliferation of new applications for external and internal social media, but traditional business applications are often getting social media capabilities
A Tale of Two E20 Cities – From San Francisco to Frankfurt
Blog PostThe Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco event ended last week, handing over the baton to Europe for the E2.0 Summit in Frankfurt, which starts today. It looks like Kongress media have put together a good lineup and a very practical agenda, so I am looking forward to some intelligent discussions about the practice of enterprise social computing in Europe, rather than the kind of navel gazing, ideological debates that seemed to dominate in San Francisco.
