According to the US Department of Labor, we will need to retrain 75% of the workforce in new technology and new methods of doing business. 80% of all jobs will require some form of post secondary education by 2015. The time of abundant resources ...

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This past week, I was able to sit in on a presentation from one of the research firms on Collaboration and Social Software. One of the slides that jumped out was the concerns about productivity Executives and Managers have with deploying interact...

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One of the things that seems to undisputable is that the productivity of the enterprise continues to increase year by year. The basic reason for this is the reduction of interaction and transaction costs within different organizations. Nobel Pri...

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With apologies to David Coverdale, “Here I go again”. The problem with organizations today is that they are built upon vertical, top down hierarchal structures. This may make it easier to merge large organizations but can create havoc in buildin...

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Created a New Group under the Magnolia web site in order to share Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 websites. Feel free to Join and add links that you know about in this space. I'll try to add them as I come across th...

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As mentioned in earlier posts that awareness and education are two of the most important hurdles to overcome when deploying Collaborative Software in the enterprise. This weblog entry is the first of four entries on ways that you can communicate ...

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Wow, this look interesting. A Web 2.0 Bootcamp focusing on 7 major patterns of Web 2.0 applications, the structure and business models of Web 2.0, and how Web 2.0 concepts are applied directly to the design and development of online products and ...

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The first review of "Trademark 2.0: Defining Your value in a Web 2.0 World" has come in and it's not bad at all. Thanks to Daragh O'Brien for his kind comments.

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This is the second post in a series focusing on how to get the message out to the user community. This channel focuses on how to educate people on the collaborative solution or offering. Here is a link to the first post focusing on the Continue reading "Education Channel: Part 2" »

The Economist Intelligence Unit has released a report entitled “Serious Business: Web 2.0 goes Corporate”. The research polled 40...

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As you can tell, Collaborage went under the knife over the week to get a new look and feel. Since Web 2.0 is the perpetual beta environment, it makes sense to rebuilt my weblog every now and then. Anyway, I was looking for an interesting photo t...

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I had the opportunity to speak to a C-level executive at another company about Collaborative Solutions and in particular, Sharepoint. For two years, his IT experts were telling him that Sharepoint didn’t scale, wasn’t reliable, extensible, or man...

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Last week an “Enterprise 2.0” consultant called to chat about what he could to for me and my enterprise. I don’t really think he did his homework to know who he was talking to but I enjoyed his 15 minute overview of Web 2.0 within the organizatio...

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Here are the top 25 Weblogs (blogs) as ranked by Technorati. The members of the list had to be classified as Enterprise 2.0 which may indicate the obvious absence of those blogs that we all consider to be the actual top hitters like Andrew McAfee...

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With mortgage companies dropping like flies (i.e. Aegis), a bank failure seems like a small deal. Especially when the total expected loss is only $750,000. What makes this blog worthy is that the bank is a virtual bank in Second Life. Remember ...

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When I was putting together the Top 25 Enterprise 2.0 Weblogs, I ran across an interesting entry from ...

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Ok, some of us have way too much time on our hands, but… I reviewed technorati this evening some more to see what I could garner from the ranking and authority ratings. Remember, they track over 70 million weblogs so these numbers are amazing. I...

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Imagine a spectrum where on one end is social software and the other is the Intranet. The social software is a centralized service that acts as a many-to-many communication medium. Centralized in the sense that all of the weblogs, wikis, and oth...

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No one can say for sure that Social Software or Collaborative technologies are going to take off inside your company at this point in time. We can say, with great certainty, that the company will eventually embrace these technologies. The one qu...

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It’s hard to put into words the excitement to see “Collaboration 2.0” included in Dion Hinchcliff’s Mid-Year review of Enterprise 2.0. Focusing on the internal facing and social aspects Hinc...

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After my fifth phone call and email on this topic, I think it’s time to create an informative post on a confusing topic. Can Sharepoint and Social Software exist in the same environment or must you choose one or the other. The first step in answ...

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Here are 11 Enterprise Case Studies found on the web. The details vary by author but most can give you some good ideas on your implementation. Also, don’t forget the ones being collected by the Continue reading "Eleven Enterprise 2.0 Case Study Articles" »

Have to seen this month’s issue of Popular Science? The lead article discusses how China has gotten to point where they can reverse engineer just about any product. Before, we go there let’s review the Enterprise 0.0 model for innovation protect...

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