“Social Media’s power is not in the tools, but in the actions enabled by the tools.”
Read the full article at www.socialcomputingmagazine.com
Seeking The Real Enterprise 2.0
August
An article originally posted on Social Computing Magazine
In my opinion…
I like to remind people that knowledge work is perishable unless you store it and do something with it later. If you don’t use it, you lose it. You can lose it by neglect. You can lose it by forgetfulness. You can lose it because it’s relevance expires.
But knowledge work can be properly stored. This is the role of social media in the workplace - in the corporation.
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What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t
August
An article originally posted on discussionleader.hbsp.com
“The understanding that platforms are markets is one of the most vital differences between revolutionaries and laggards across today’s strategyscape.”
Read the full article at discussionleader.hbsp.com
In my opinion…
A market is a social structure developed to facilitate the “exchange of rights, services or product ownership” according to Wikipedia’s definition. Now think about this in terms of knowledge exchange and ownership.
Do you reckon the emergence of social KM software inside the enterprise will also follow this pattern by eventually resulting in such open platforms ? Would this be leading us to new forms of knowledge markets and new heights of knowledge communication/exchange ?
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Enterprise 2.0: The Nature of the Firm
August
An article originally posted on Read/WriteWeb
“The perfect storm hitting large enterprises
Large enterprise face a “perfect storm”. These are huge challenges. Start-ups that help them navigate these challenges in real and fundamental ways will do very well.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
In my opinion…
Bernard Lunn explains the story behind Enterprise 2.0 and ReadWriteWeb is launching a new channel dedicated to the topic to continue this big Story.
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This is what 2.0 means
August
An article originally posted on indexed.blogspot.com
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Twelve ways to sell social media to your boss
August
An article originally posted on Chris Brogan
“First and foremost, you have to jump over the fence from where you’re thinking, and get into their mindset. From there, look back at social media, and create values you believe they can understand.”
Read the full article at www.chrisbrogan.com
In my opinion…
Here are really concrete reasons why social media is really helping business. Chris Brogan demonstrates in 12 bullet points how positive it can be.
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The Future of Search? It’s Here.
August
An article originally posted on Alt Search Engines
“The more razzle dazzle you slap on a key word indexing system, the more storage, bandwidth, CPU cycles, and plumbing you will need. The way key word indexing can bring an older Pentium computer to it knees when it runs Google Desktop Search or another “free” desktop search system provides a real-life example of how search usurps resources. Even the simplest keyword indexing requires a large part of a computer’s resources when indexes are updated and rebuilt. The more users and the more content you process, the more plumbing you need. When you slap on additional content processing, you are in a poker game that you cannot win. The computational odds are stacked against you. The fix is to process less content or turn off features. Believe me, even the big guys do this. Google and Microsoft, for example, have priorities for their indexing.”
Read the full article at altsearchengines.com
In my opinion…
Very interesting (but not that optimistic) post from Stephen E. Arnold about Search and its (no) future.
Though we might agree on some points, we believe in the future of enterprise search (I suppose you had guessed it).
I chose this extract just to say that indeed, search tools should have to process less content. And considering the enterprise as a community, the content itself should be defined by the end-users themselves. They know what is valuable. They have expertise. They should be able to share only what they think might be relevant to others. This, in my opinion, could be the fix. Sharing and indexing only what is valuable. ‘Turn up the signal, wipe out the noise’.
This would also reduce users’ dissatisfaction, and increase their engagement.
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McKinsey Web 2.0 Enterprise Research - Surprises?
August
An article originally posted on Fast Forward blog
“This survey focuses on what Web 2.0 technologies are being adopted, on which areas of business they are deployed, on techniques to support adoption, and on the executives’ level of satisfaction with the results. Helpfully, the report provides consistent comparisons to McKinsey’s last report on this topic, the April, 2007 How Businesses are Using Web 2.0. The report is also helpful once again in identifying differences in E20 patterns among regions (e.g. executives in India and Asia-Pac are more than twice as likely as Europeans to cite blogs as a tool of real importance to their companies).”
Read the full article at www.fastforwardblog.com
Or get the survey results at www.mckinseyquarterly.com
In my opinion…
If you are actively bringing collaborative technologies into your organization, you will be interested by the results of this McKinsey 2008 survey detailing which tools are regarded as most/least useful by business executives.
The low result of tagging is definitely a surprise; maybe is this due to the fact most applications haven’t yet been able to leverage the power of folksonomy? We believe in its strength, but we also believe that in a professional environment being able to manage/lead this folksonomy is hugely important for its effective use.
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Collaboration and Social Media 2008
August
An article originally posted on Awareness Networks
“The report shows how social media, based on “Web 2.0″ technologies, is approaching the tipping-point. First generation tools now in widespread use, such as text-oriented email, web sites, and shared workspaces, are soon to be supplemented by social media applications that incorporate blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, rich media, and other innovative technologies. The Gilbane research report predicts the transition from horizontal applications to vertical solutions, and offers a number of strategies to help companies with the transition.”
Read the full article at www.awarenessnetworks.com
In my opinion…
A “must read” for the Knowledge Manager 2.0. !
Note: fill in the form first to download the report in pdf format.
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Tag clouds for analysing documents
August
An article originally posted on www.rba.co.uk
“The tag cloud brings to the fore your most used terms and it can be a shock to discover that you have placed the emphasis in totally the wrong area. It then struck me that you could do this with any form of literature - a web page, training publicity, membership recruitment forms.”
Read the full article at www.rba.co.uk
In my opinion…
More than talking about tag clouds, I would talk about word clouds. Anyway it is indeed a great way to visualize the content of a document. Worth trying!
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