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11.02.10Teams, Communities, And Social NetworksPerhaps one of the most well-intentioned yet misunderstood categorizations I’ve seen made by a variety of sources has been a segmentation model which draws sharp distinctions between “teams”, “communities”, and “social networks” – essentially treating them as separate entities. Often, it’s influenced by the desire to associate each category with different tooling, or to make a point that social networking represents the missing strategic component within collaboration or knowledge management initiatives. At first glance, the concept makes sense – depicting a simple escalation from team to community to social networking shows a natural transition in the way people within an ...
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10.25.10Expertise Location: Don't Forget Process & Cultural FactorsThe post below on expertise location is an update from an earlier Collaborative Thinking post "Expertise Location: Not Just A Tooling Issue" published on January 28, 2010. We have probably all found ourselves in a situation where we knew there was somebody in the organization that could help us with a problem but we had no idea of how to find them. Over the past few years, as organizations deploy social tools, expertise location has become one of the more common solutions associated with "Enterprise 2.0". ..... Business benefits from automating the expertise lifecycle (e.g., capture, discovery, brokering, connection, privacy) can be compelling ...
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10.11.10Six steps to success in a world driven by cloud computingI recently gave the keynote for an event series on cloud computing run by Telstra Business across five Australian cities. My keynote was followed by a presentation by Telstra's Chief Technology Officer Hugh Bradlow. In the current issue of Telstra's customer magazine Business Insights the feature article is based on Hugh and myself. The article is here, with the full text of my quoted 'Six Steps to Success' is below. Cloud computing: Interview with Ross Dawson and Hugh Bradlow ...
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07.19.10Revisiting the Web 2.0 Framework for insights on the web landscape todayI have just been requested permission by London School of Economics to use my Web 2.0 Framework in their Management and Innovation of eBusiness program for the next four years. The first part of the framework is below, and the industry landscape further down the page. Click on the image for the original description and full pdf I’m delighted that the framework is still seen as relevant and useful over 3 years after it was created in May 2007. Certainly the original post continues to get plenty of traffic, not least because an image from the framework still appears on the front ...
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02.22.108 Guiding Principles for Pilot Programs: A Key for Enterprise 2.0In my Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report I put Iterate and Refine at the center of the Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework. One of the most critical elements of this principle is the ability to establish and run effective pilot programs. Below is an excerpt from Chapter 17 of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 on Pilots, which describes 8 guiding principles for pilot programs. GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR PILOTS While there are no hard and fast rules for establishing successful pilots, eight guiding principles that should be kept in mind are: “It is reasonably cheap and easy to get a pilot up and running to evaluate how successful ...
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02.22.108 Guiding Principles for Pilot Programs: A Key for Enterprise 2.0In my Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report I put Iterate and Refine at the center of the Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework. One of the most critical elements of this principle is the ability to establish and run effective pilot programs. Below is an excerpt from Chapter 17 of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 on Pilots, which describes 8 guiding principles for pilot programs. GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR PILOTS While there are no hard and fast rules for establishing successful pilots, eight guiding principles that should be kept in mind are: “It is reasonably cheap and easy to get a pilot up and running to evaluate how successful ...
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02.09.10Predictions for enterprise social software and social network analysisGartner has released five interesting predictions for social software. Here are the predictions along with a few of my thoughts. By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users. This is a transition that we’ve seen for a very long time, and looks finally ready to come to fruition. Coming from a financial markets background, I’d seen from as far back as the late 1990s that email as a primary medium was resulting in communication breakdown. I’ve long believed that shifting communication out of email was one of the main ...
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01.09.10Social Graph Engines (Updated)Back in June, I posted some information on social graph engines triggered by my interest in Google Pregel. I still expect this area of social analytics to be a key capability organizations will need to focus on as they deal with large-scale processing of social graph data.I came across the info below (related to an Apache project) and thought I would pass it along: Apache HAMA: An Introduction to Bulk Synchronization Parallel on Hadoop Apache HAMA: An Introduction toBulk Synchronization Parallel on Hadoop View more documents from Edward J. Yoon. Welcome to Hama project Hama (means a hippopotamus in Korean) is a distributed scientific ...
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12.23.09Top blog posts of 2009: Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectivenessOther 2009 summary posts Top blog posts of 2009: 6 on Twitter and the media Top blog posts of 2009: The future Top keynote speech presentations/ videos of 2009 Continuing my series of my blog posts that have attracted the most interest in 2009, here is my selection of 10 posts on Enterprise 2.0 and organizational effectiveness. 1. Why ‘critical mass’ is intensely relevant to Enterprise 2.0 user adoption What the diffusion curve means for Enterprise 2.0 adoption initiatives. 2. Enterprise 2.0: Competitive differentiation occurs at the intersection of technology and culture The harder it is to implement Enterprise 2.0, the greater the potential for competitive differentiation. ...
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12.23.09Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 Social Software (Part 3)Previous posts: Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & Social Software (Part 2) Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & Social Software There are a few vendor events that stood out in my mind for 2009 (related to Enterprise 2.0 and social software) - in no particular order: Cisco Stumbles Early But Regains Composure & Sets The Stage Back in July, I published a post Cisco: Great Expectations But "Where's The (Collaboration) Beef"? that took Cisco to task regarding how strongly it was "talking about" collaboration but was not really "doing" much about collaboration. However, by the end of the year, things become much more clear as ...
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