Who Moved The Cheese? You Better.

April 29, 2010

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I read the below paragraphs from this excellent post today by Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff, I couldn’t help but expand my horizons of thinking past his topic and apply it to so many more that are right in front of us.  So, the question for you is, what are you going [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 – Questions Answered Part 1

April 28, 2010

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Someone emailed me with a list of 16 great questions regarding regarding using ‘Social’ in an organization.  I’m not sure how many posts this will turn out to be, but I will go through them all…

What is the big picture for social media in organizations (for E2.0 purposes)?
For most organizations the big [...]

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Difference Between Personal & Professional Uses of Social Media: It’s All in Your Head

April 23, 2010

As I talk to people about Enterprise 2.0 I find those who resist it because they take what they know and apply it to what they don’t know.  I can’t blame them.  Projection is common and we do it all the time.  We take the information we know and apply it to a new situation [...]

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What Will You Do When…

April 7, 2010

When someone puts up an offensive picture as their avatar, what will you do? How will you handle that?
Because it will happen – or something like it. Someone, at some point, will put something out there that most people with common sense would never do. And when it does happen, remember these [...]

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Collaboration’s Engine & Heart

March 12, 2010

Getting ready for a short presentation yesterday I spent some time thinking about collaboration. And I had a sort of epiphany. Here are some quick thoughts…
SHARING is the engine behind collaboration. It is what makes it work. If your org has a culture of hording it will be difficult to collaborate.
DISCOVERY [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 is the Same Old Same Old – Yet it is Drastically New

February 26, 2010

I hear this comment all of the time, “This (Enterprise 2.0) is the same old same old repackaged.”
Yes and no. Saying it that way assumes that a) because it is basically the same, b) the outcomes are basically the same. Point A may be true, but because it is even ever so slightly [...]

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Overcoming Information Overload

February 10, 2010

“If you let anyone create any information there will be so much information that there is no way we can keep track of it all.”  We hear this all the time.
Answer: Intuitively it sounds right but is flawed because information overload is already a fundamental feature of nature.
Experiment: Stop what you are doing.  What do [...]

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Rahaf Harfoush on the Lessons Learned From The Social Obama Campaign

February 3, 2010

After Dave’s keynote at Training2010, Rahaf Harfoush, author of Yes We Did, spoke after barely getting off a delayed plane.  And we are very glad she made it!
It was a great presentation that gave me a lot of wonderful ideas.
These, again, are my raw notes…
She wrote, “Yes We Did” on using social media for building [...]

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Keynote: Training’s Future with Social Technologies

February 3, 2010

Dave Wilkins’ keynote at Training2010 was amazing.  I got into the auditorium an hour before hand to see if I could help and to save places on the front row to so we could heckle him.  He had me run through the slides of his preso and my reaction was, “It is about time.”  What [...]

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February 1, 2010

Reports from Training 2010
I am at Training 2010 in San Diego this week.  The next few posts will be from this conference.  Not all coherent, I am sure, but rather in not fashion.
Tom Stone’s “Overcoming Obstacles and Objections to the Use of Web 2.0 in Organizations.”   I have loved Tom’s sessions at other conferences and [...]

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