This session is presented by Paul Anderson (Disney) and Tracy Maurer (UBM). You can find the session slides athttp://www.e2conf.com/boston/2011/presentations/workshops. Username: workshop; Password: boston2011. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as soon as possible after the end of a session, they may contain the occasional typographical... Continue Reading →
Are you ready to do this? Prepare to transform your Enterprise and its culture [#e2conf]
This session is presented by Simon Scallion (Social Media Lifeguard, CSC) and Kevin Jones (Social Strategist and consultant to NASA). The session focuses on 6 key considerations of social business transformation. You can find the session slides athttp://www.e2conf.com/boston/2011/presentations/workshops. Username: workshop; Password: boston2011. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. Since... Continue Reading →
Social Business: What is it? And why should I care? [#e2conf]
This session is presented by Clare Flanagan, Director, Social Business and Community Strategy, CSC. She works in the office of innovation within this professional services company. You can find the session slides at http://www.e2conf.com/boston/2011/presentations/workshops. Username: workshop; Password: boston2011. [These are my notes from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 in Boston. Since I'm publishing them as... Continue Reading →
Chaos Control Collaboration
Nature may abhor a vacuum, but management abhors chaos. And middle managers cling to control as if it is the only thing standing between them and perdition. "Winning the middle" is the strategy that targets those middle managers who sometimes seem so fearful of social media tools behind the firewall. To be fair, they may... Continue Reading →
How High the Moon?
I'm not easily impressed, but today Google impressed me. How? They put an extraordinary "Google Doodle" on their search page in honor of the June 9 birthday of the legendary guitarist, Les Paul. (See video below.) One of the great benefits of living in New York City is that we have access to amazing performers.... Continue Reading →
When Knowledge Management Saves Lives
If there are days when you doubt the value of knowledge management, take a closer look at Project ECHO: it saves lives by sharing specialist knowledge from teaching hospitals with a wide network of primary care physicians in far-flung areas. As a a result, the patients in those areas get the benefit of cutting edge... Continue Reading →
What Are You Waiting For?
Some say that the legal profession has raised caution to a high art form. Even so, it is possible to find in every walk of life people whose favorite course of action is to adopt a wait and see strategy. But is this a wise course? Some recent writing about the human tendency to avoid... Continue Reading →