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08.05.10Google Wave and Network EffectsThis morning I stumbled on a great post by Dave Winer titled Why didn't Google Wave boot up? where he writes So why didn't Google Wave happen? Here's the problem -- when I signed on to Wave, I didn't see anything interesting. It was up to me, the user, to figure out how to sell it. But I didn't understand what it was, or what its capabilities were, and I was busy, always. Even so I would have put the time in if it looked interesting, but it didn't. However, it had another problem. Even if there were incentives to put time into it, and even ...
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08.03.10There will be many social graphsI've spent the past week going over the ideas in Chris Dixon's excellent post titled graphs and thought the ideas were powerful enough that they are worth reiterating. The thesis is simple, in recent years many have been focused on social graphs (i.e. graphs bidirectional or one-way “friend” relationships between users) but there are other ways in which users can be connected to each other besides whether they are friends or not. The key points from Chris’s post are excerpted below Facebook’s social graph is symmetric (if I am friends with you then you are friends with me) but not transitive (I can be friends ...
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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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12.23.09Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 Social Software (Part 2)In my last post, Year-End Thoughts On Enterprise 2.0 & Social Software, I wanted to provide a background context on some of the areas where Enterprise 2.0 remains ambiguous: Enterprise 2.0 is not a market. Enterprise 2.0 is perhaps best thought of as a collection of principals, organizational practices, and adoption methods that enables emergent participation and contributions models. Enterprise 2.0 is not a project. By this, I mean that organizations should not undertake Enterprise 2.0 initiatives for the sake of "doing Enterprise 2.0. This was the fundamental mistake that doomed many KM projects in the late nineties. There needs to be ...
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11.03.09Real-time, Distributed Conversations: Some Thoughts on the Salmon ProtocolLast week John Panzer, who works on Blogger at Google, wrote about some of the work he’s been doing on creating a protocol for syndicating comments associated with activity streams in his post The Salmon Protocol: Introducing the Salmon Project. Key parts of his post are excerpted below A few days ago, at the Real Time Web Summit, we had a session about Salmon, a protocol for re-aggregated distributed conversations around web content. I was hoping for some feedback and to generate some interest, and I was overwhelmed by the positive reactions, especially after Louis Gray's post "Proposed Salmon Protocol aims to unify Conversations on the Web". Adina ...
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09.29.09Community management: The ‘essential’ capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 effortsIt's not a skill that's been widely understood until quite recently, however community management has begun to move to the forefront of discussions about enterprise social computing as the use of social tools begins to climb the maturity curve. Now it's increasingly proving not just useful but a critical component of Enterprise 2.0 efforts despite an often vague understanding of what it is and where it should be situated in the org chart.
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09.29.09Community management: The ‘essential’ capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 effortsIt's not a skill that's been widely understood until quite recently, however community management has begun to move to the forefront of discussions about enterprise social computing as the use of social tools begins to climb the maturity curve. Now it's increasingly proving not just useful but a critical component of Enterprise 2.0 efforts despite an often vague understanding of what it is and where it should be situated in the org chart.
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09.16.09One Way To Look At Social ComputingLately, over the past couple of months, I have been doing a high number of customer briefings and traveling a lot. The workload increase has been noticeable for those following me either via this blog or through Twitter. One of the slides that has been well-received is one that I use to peel away the different terms associated with social computing. This is not the only way to look at the topic - and not necessarily the right way for all possible situations when you are trying to advise someone on a particular strategy or question. However, Figure 1 below ...
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CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
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