
The Feature Adoption Framework for Social Collaboration
One of the things that organizations need to consider when rolling out a social collaboration platform is how various features will impact or affect adoption. Most platforms today have dozens of features but should organizations roll them out all at once? That can certainly be one approach. But another approach which I find to be […]

Mozilla Launches Open Badges; Creates an Educational and Skill Currency
Mozilla recently unveiled a project that they have been working on for over a year and a half called Open Badges. The concept is built around people being able to gain recognition for skills that they earn on the web, anywhere on the web. Ideally an individual will be able to acquire virtually any skill on any […]

What the Yammer Acquisition of oneDrum Means
If you haven’t heard yet, enterprise social network software company Yammer has made their first acquisition with oneDrum, a vendor that I reviewed towards the end of last year. If you even been sort of following the enterprise collaboration space you will know that Yammer is growing rapidly and raising more money to keep that […]

Update on my Book for McGraw Hill (and an Official Title!)
Six months ago I announced that I was working on a book for McGraw Hill. The book is the first and only comprehensive strategic guide for executives and decision makers who are looking to deploy emergent collaboration tools and strategies within their organizations. To date the book has over a dozen guest contributors who all […]

Writing a Book on Enterprise Collaboration (Enterprise 2.0) With McGraw Hill!
I’m excited to announce that I will be writing a book on enterprise collaboration for McGraw Hill which will be out around July of 2012! The purpose of the book is to help guide executives and decisions makers who are responsible for these collaborative initiatives within their organizations. The book is going to be supported […]

Is Social Taking Malaysia Airlines to New Heights?
I was at the Eye for Travel conference last week when I learned about something really interesting that Malaysia Airlines is doing with Facebook and their booking engine through their new app, MHbuddy. You can call this Social CRM or social media, it doesn’t matter, but what they are doing is definitely different for the […]

Chess Media Group and Metz Consulting Announce Services Partnership!
In what is perhaps the biggest and most exciting piece of news about Chess Media Group to date – Connie and I are very excited to announce that we have joined forces with Metz Consulting to form a services partnership. Chess Media Group and Metz will jointly share clients that wish to have both teams […]

Contributing to Search Engine Watch and CMSWire!
I have some exciting news. I’m now an official contributor to both CMSWire and Search Engine Watch! I’ve been writing for both of these sites for a few weeks now but I’m finally ready to officially announce it. If you’re not familiar with these two publications here’s what they are about along with what I’m going to […]

Forrester to Analysts that Have Their Own Blogs: Umm, No
According to Sage Circle, Forrester is telling all of their analysts that have their own personally branded research blogs that they must either take them down or re-direct them to the Forrester site. Apparently Forrester feels like they can provide more value to their clients if they aggregate all of the content into one space, […]

Introducing Social Business One
Towards the end of last year I was approached by Bob Thompson from Customer Think and Axel Schultze from the Social Media Academy to be a part of a new type of community that just debuted a few days ago called SocialBusinessOne. SBO was designed to be a home for everything from Enterprise 2.0 to […]