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The problem with your social business roadmap
Columbus – Photo by Aaron Kim In the corporate world of business and technology, we are often asked to produce roadmaps for products and processes. Despite what Dilbert may think about it, there’s no...
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Social Business: Facebook for the Enterprise?
Image via CrunchBase As Facebook surpassed the 1 billion users’ mark last week, but still had disappointing results in the stock market, the debate is inevitable: is Facebook going the way of the dodo...
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Top 5 Social Business Myths
Photo credit: Wikipedia As companies go through their social business journey, there are several “truths” about their use of social media that are not necessarily observed in real life, but still get...
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Social software adoption: Riding the hype curve
Photo credit: the_exploratorium There is a lot of hype and skepticism around the actual ability for social software to deliver real, sustainable business value, which makes social software no different...
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Social business and knowledge as an accident of paper
Photo credit: ayalan Is your internal social business platform shaping up to become just a slightly better intranet or a good-looking SharePoint site? Is most of your content held in private...
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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet
Photo credit: Wikipedia The last 20 years have witnessed many success stories over the net: sites such as Yahoo!, Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia,...
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The intranet social garden and quantum mechanics
Photo credit: Serolynne In my last Biznology post, “Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet”, I wrote about why patterns that are so successful over the Internet...
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Enterprise Social Networking Platforms: Think Amazon, Not Facebook
amazon.com (Photo credit: soumit) “This is just Facebook for the Enterprise” is the most common way most people describe enterprise social networking platforms. After all, the look and feel of those...
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How your enterprise social platform enables the information marketplace
Photo credit: Wikipedia In my last Biznology post, I suggested that Amazon would be a better model for your internal social platform than the obvious choice of Facebook. After all, Facebook plays a...
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Enterprise Social Networking: Survival of the Fittest or of the Nicest?
In many discussions about driving adoption for social business platforms, the acronym WIIFM (“What’s in it for me”) became a well known jargon to say: unless users take personal advantage from the...
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Why your social business platform doesn’t have 100% adoption
Photo credit: Wikipedia You did everything you could to spread the use of a social platform at your organization. After months or years of effort and passion, you find that only a minority of early...
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The Cambrian Explosion and our obsession with “the next big thing”
Photo credit: Wikipedia You’ve heard it before, perhaps with different words. Gartner defines the “Nexus of Forces” as being “the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social, mobility, cloud and...
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Data, data everywhere, nor any drop to think
Photo credit: Aimanness Photography The IBM Big Data website claims that “Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the...
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Do best practices really exist in the realm of Social Business?
Seal of Good Practice as it appeared in 1958 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A quick Google search for “social media best practices” reveals 102 million results. If you narrow that down to “social business...
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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 1. Your choice of social platform does matter
Choices (Photo credit: emilio labrador) A question I hear often after any presentation about the implementation of a social networking platform at the workplace is: what advice can you give to...
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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 2, Beware of the social digital divide(s)
Digital Divide (Photo credit: Free Press Pics) This is part 2 of the Hindsight 20/20 series. Part 1, “Your choice of social platform does matter”, is here. This month’s post discusses the inevitable...
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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 3 Metrics – social business friend or foe?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is part 3 of the Hindsight 20/20 series (here are the links to Part 1, “Your choice of social platform does matter”, and 2, “Beware of the social digital divide(s)”)....
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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 4. Your social business platform as a shopping mall
Boxing Day at Eaton Center (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At some point during your social business journey, you’ll figure out that being the new kid on the block or having the latest shiny new tool in your...
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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 5. Enterprise social networking is about people,...
(Photo credit: Anirudh Koul) What is the big deal about the modern social business and social collaboration platforms? Is there anything unique in them that can’t be done better and faster using the...
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Enterprise Social Networking: Survival of the Fittest or of the Nicest?
In many discussions about driving adoption for social business platforms, the acronym WIIFM (“What’s in it for me”) became a well known jargon to say: unless users take personal advantage from the...
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