Emergent Collaboration Vendor Review: ThoughtFarmer
Every week I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. If you are vendor that would like to participate, please contact me (email is in the sidebar as is the twitter link). The [...]
What Makes an Engaged Employee?
As I’ve stated before organizations today are focusing too much on “busy metrics” as their way to define engagement. Blog comments, ideas, number of groups, and amount of content shared are all variables that organizations are looking at trying to justify and explain engagement. Again, the problem with this is that it focuses on the [...]
Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Penn State University Part Five: Impact, Future Plans, and Lessons
This is part five (and the final part) in a multi-part series on how Pennsylvania State University is implementing Enterprise 2.0. Part one covered the business drivers of Enterprise 2.0 for Penn State University, part two looked at change management issues around culture for Penn State University as well as where the push for E2.0 came from, part three explored technology [...]
Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Penn State University Part Four: Pilot Project or All In?
This is part four in a multi-part series on how Pennsylvania State University is implementing Enterprise 2.0. Part one covered the business drivers of Enterprise 2.0 for Penn State University, part two looked at change management issues around culture for Penn State University as well as where the push for E2.0 came from, part three explored technology adoption at [...]
T-Shirt Friday #26 – ThoughtFarmer
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration
Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel – two of the leading lights in Enterprise 2.0 (that is experience in actually doing it rather than merely talking about it) presented this session. Their aim with the session was to move from “pontification to real world discussions” – a noble objective. In discussing “the Big Idea” around Enterprise [...]
