Here are my notes from the first session of the Enterprise 2.o Black Belt Workshop: Learn from the Vanguard Speakers: Megan Murray, Community Manager/Project Coordinator, Booz Allen Hamilton @MeganMurray Jamie Pappas, E2.0 & Social Media Strategist, Evangelist, and Community Manager, EMC Corp @JamiePappas Rawn Shah, Social Software Practices Lead, IBM @Rawn Notes: [These are my... Continue Reading →
Learn from the E2.0 Vanguard – Part 2
Here are my notes from the first session of the Enterprise 2.o Black Belt Workshop: Learn from the Vanguard Speakers: Megan Murray, Community Manager/Project Coordinator, Booz Allen Hamilton @MeganMurray Jamie Pappas, E2.0 & Social Media Strategist, Evangelist, and Community Manager, EMC Corp @JamiePappas Rawn Shah, Social Software Practices Lead, IBM @Rawn Notes: [These are my... Continue Reading →
Learn from the E2.0 Vanguard -Part 1
Here are my notes from the first session of the Enterprise 2.o Black Belt Workshop: Learn from the Vanguard Speakers: Megan Murray, Community Manager/Project Coordinator, Booz Allen Hamilton @MeganMurray Jamie Pappas, E2.0 & Social Media Strategist, Evangelist, and Community Manager, EMC Corp @JamiePappas Rawn Shah, Social Software Practices Lead, IBM @Rawn Notes: [These are my... Continue Reading →
Where’s the E2.0 Beef?
You've got to help me out folks! Sometimes it feels like I've been a voice crying in the wilderness, telling the good news of Enterprise 2.0 to anyone in the law firm world that will listen. The problem is that we're not seeing a whole lot of law firm adoption success stories. Why? Are law... Continue Reading →
E2.0’s Gift to Law Firms
I'm a little startled to report that I begun practicing law nearly 20 years ago. (Since I don't feel that old, perhaps the space-time continuum can explain this fact!) In the intervening time, one of the things that lawyers around the world have mourned is what they perceive as the transition of relationship-based interactions with... Continue Reading →
Enterprise 2.0 Leadership
For those who grew up in a command-and-control culture at work, it can be a little daunting to tackle the real challenges to their training embodied by Enterprise 2.0 initiatives. When Enterprise 2.0 advocates say "emergent" and "free-form," command-and-control purists hear "anarchic" and "chaotic." So how do we bridge the gap? One way to bridge... Continue Reading →
The Kindness of Strangers
We've never met. Nonetheless, Samuel Driessen was most generous to me yesterday. What did he do? He very kindly offered me his full pass to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference to be held in June. This conference provides a prime opportunity to learn first-hand from people who have had success with Enterprise 2.0 tools. For those... Continue Reading →
My Mistake
I made a mistake yesterday. Although I started with the best of intentions, my error was apparent within minutes. In fact, as soon as my first mouthful hit my digestive track, it was obvious that I had eaten food that was on the verge of spoiling. Unfortunately, by the time my brain processed the bad... Continue Reading →
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Years ago, Saturday Night Live gave us the secret to effective knowledge sharing within the enterprise. In the famous words of Linda Richman on Coffee Talk: "Talk amongst yourselves!" I was reminded of this when reading Tweeting your way to closing the skills gap on your plant floor, which cites Benjamin Friedman, the co-author of ... Continue Reading →
Wasting Time with Social Media
If there is one unlimited resource in this world, it's the human capacity to find ways to avoid work. Everyone has had an hour or a day when it was very hard to focus on the thing that had to be done. So what have we done instead? Anything but that one required thing. This... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 