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Enterprise 2.0 Customer; I was Wrong

A couple days ago, I posted that there were two types of Enterprise 2.0 customers or opportunities. I was wrong, dead wrong. The “engaged” and the “not engaged” left out the group that is currently “being engaged”. How silly of me to forget tha...

 

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Fifteen Uses of a Corporate Wiki

1. Collecting Business and Technical Requirements
2. Corporate Dictionary
3. Meeting Agendas, Notes, Attendees, and Attachments
4. Organizational and Professional Biography
5. Status Reporting (Project, Personal, Program, D...

 

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Fifteen Uses of a Corporate Blog

1. Executive Communications
2. Project Status Reporting
3. Sharing Knowledge and Professional Expertise
4. Gathering Collective Intelligence (Marketing Campaign)
5. Sharing Experiences; Vendor, Partner, or Product
6. ...

 

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The Ignorance of Crowds

In Strategy & Business, Nicholas Carr (Author of Does IT Matter) has written an article about the application of "peer production" to business innovation. The title the magazine gave the piece is "The Ignorance of Crowds," but it's really more abo...

 

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That's Not Good Enough...

You have to be better than YouTube, MySpace and Wikipedia. If you take the average contributor rate in these organizations, as compared to the reader population, you will get some number around 0.16%. No, that’s not 16%, it is around a tenth of on...

 

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Enterprise 2.0 Map and Comments

FistPartner has produced an interesting map of these technologies that we commonly refer to as the Enterprise 2.0 market Map. This is very good map that will force you to think about your imp...

 

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Too fast for Me: 15 Uses for Social Book Marking

No sense in me replicating Niall's Work

View 15 Uses of CorporateBook Marking

1. Monitoring news/blog coverage of your company
...

 

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Fifteen Uses of Collaborative Solutions

1. Intranet Replacement; Open Access and Collaborative. An easy win…
2. Lightweight Document Management
3. Shared Space for Meetings; Sharing Agendas, Deliverables, Times, and Attendees
4. Team / Group Collaboration
5. Sh...

 

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Fifteen Uses of RSS in the Enterprise

1. Announcing Company News and Events
2. Product and Release Notifications
3. Job Openings and Organizational Changes
4. Employee Discounts and Reward Programs
5. Documentation Updates
6. New Shared Content within Soc...

 

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Prosumers in Enterprise 2.0? Not yet...

The IT Innovator Don Tapscott suggested a term “Prosumer” to describe the blurring gap between the producer and consumer of a product or service. On the surface, this sounds like an important discovery and it is in the outside world. Clearly, or...

 

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Fifteen Ways to Market Enterprise 2.0 Applications

1. Friends and Family (Personal Network)
2. Newsletters (Informative and Advertisement)
3. Announcements (Email)
4. Web Sites (Client-Support, IT, Arch, Ops, etc.)
5. Search and Classification Engines
6. Launch and Tr...

 

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Fifteen Uses of Professional Profiles within the Enterprise

1. Establish your Expertise and Define your Professional Trademarks
2. Describing your Areas of Interest
3. Defining your Business Experience and Technical Expertise
4. Sharing Professional Documents: Resume, CV, and Portfolio

 

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15 Ways to Professionally Brand You

Tom Peters published on this topic in his 1997 Fast Company Article called “A Brand Called You”. The essence of Mr. Peters message is that you are in charge of your brand and that all of us can own some part of the market. Everyone can learn, and...

 

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Web 2.0 Creates Endless Micro-Markets

In Web 1.0 organizations defined who the winners and losers were going to be. They defined the rules of play, rules of engagement, and framework of the eco-system. Standard products, delivered globally, and manufactured in mass. The soft drink ...

 

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Enterprise 2.0: Find the Influencers…

Once commented how I transformed Metadata into a principle architecture within the enterprise. The question revolved around how I convinced 100 architects to accept this new way of thinking? Truth be told, I didn’t have to convince 100, only 2. ...

 

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Fifteen Ways to Use Social Tagging

1. Aggregation of User Contributed Content
2. Aggregation of People, Projects, and Programs
3. Build a New Content Discovery Methodology (i.e. Tag Clouds)
4. Creation of Semantic Relationships between Tags
5. More Current a...

 

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New Design for Collaborage

Collaborage has been redesigned for a couple of reasons. First, I want to learn more how Moveable Type works and what you can do with th...

 

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American Express and Web 2.0

American Express is diving into...

 

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Enterprise 2.0 Slideshow

Great Job on defining the new productive worker within Enterprise 2.0. Last year, we spent quite a bit of time taking a long look at what is takes to compete in the next 20 years as a high performing information worker. The advent of Web 2.0 and...

 

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Best Blog Designs

There really isn’t much out there talking about the best Weblog designs, so here are 10 that definitely make the grade in their simplicity, design, and creativity. Plenty of great ideas that you can walk away with.

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Fifteen Emotional Needs for the Enterprise 2.0 Employee

1. The need to be in Perceived Control of their Environment
2. The need to get Connected
3. The need to Promotes ones Knowledge and Experience
4. The need to Level the Playing Field
5. The need to Contribute to the Knowledg...

 

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The Tipping Point of Enterprise 2.0

They call it the tipping point which a phrase popularized by Malcom Gladwells’s book called The Tipping Point. In social terms, a tipping point is the event where a previously rare phenomenon becomes rapid and dramatically more common to the end ...

 

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The Enterprise 2.0 Experience

I make no apologies for being a rabid fan of the “The Experience Economy” book written by Pine and Gilmore. The insigh...

 

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Social Computing Magazine Picks Up Collaborage

Excellent. Social Computing Magazine has picked up one of the Blog Posts here on Collaborage. This is an excellent advancement since it indicates that people are interested in actual case studies and real world experience. One of the basic thin...

 

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference Material

Here are a couple of interesting items from the Enterprise 2.0 conference held in Boston, MA. which was held this week. First, is Ross Mayfield’s interactive notes from the How to Build an Enterprise 2.0 Platform Employees Will Use session. Very...

 

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Web 2.0 IQ Test; Arrrggghhhhhhhhh.

Please tell me someone didn’t put together an IQ test on Web 2.0 that reflects nothing but the pure technology view. Here is what the author says about you base...

 

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What the Enterprise 2.0 Conference failed to Address

After reviewing the slides and video’s of the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked myself what is missing. What is missing from the agenda and from the other sessions that is an absolute requirement for success? Several of the speakers touche...

 

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Fifteen Ways the Enterprise 2.0 is a Business

Here are fifteen ways in which organizations need to run their corporate Web 2.0 implementation as a business.

1. Investment Capital
You need some initial investment of capital for the infrastructure and software.

 

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Social Computing Magazine

Social Computing Magazine has picked up two of the Blog Posts here at Collaborage. They have published the fifteen ways to utilize a wiki as well as the fifteen ways to use a blog in the corporate environment. What other ways have you seen these ...

 

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Quick ROI for Enterprise 2.0

Everyone one wants a Return on Investment model for collaboration and social software. Just to let you know, there are hundreds of such models out there for traditional information technology type programs. One quick ROI is to replace business u...

 

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Fifteen Things an Enterprise 2.0 Leader Must Do

1. Show Up. Leaders show up and engage the program. True leaders don’t sit 1,000 miles away issuing commands without understan...

 

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Think Small and you get Small

Just to play the Devils Advocate; I was listening to a
couple of Podcasts last night on Enterprise 2.0. One message that seemed to be
repeated over and over is that you should start small. Start with a small
project and then w...

 

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Barriers to Adoption

Another way to look at Enterprise 2.0 adoption is to review the reasons people are not using the Enterprise 2.0 services. Most organizations like to survey their current customers to understand why they are using them. However, this seems to be ...

 

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Information Experience Economy

Recently, Joseph Pine and I exchanged emails which always make me think beyond the obvious. He and his co-author make you re-think the basic ideas of value creation. While I think I am late to the ...

 

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