Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise 2.0’

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Wikis In Law Firms

  Thomas Vander Wal

In early October 2008, with another legal KM practitioner, I gave a presentation on wikis to an experienced group of legal knowledge managers. Although about a third of the audience had wikis internally, there were still some people without significant practical experience with wikis.

The talk was organized in three parts. I started with an introduction to wikis, starting from the beginning, and highlighting their key features. My colleague then presented on her firm’s innovative use of Thoughtfarmer wikis. Then I discussed how my firm is leveraging Sharepoint wikis.

Read the full article at caselines.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

What unique & meaningful value have you gotten out of Twitter?

  Scott Gavin

In addition to the 106 comments(!) these are the top 5 high value benefits identified:

1) Understanding the social circles in our industry
2) Valuable Business Relationships
3) Uncover Opportunities for Online Collaboration
4) Strengthen Existing Relationships
5) Daily nuggets of humor and fun

Read the full article at blog.mrtweet.net

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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Are you really doing Enterprise 2.0?

  Thomas Vander Wal

This post by John Tropea gives us a good look at Enterprise 2.0 through the lens of knowledge management using these newer tools.

Read the full article at libraryclips.blogsome.com

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Monday, November 24th, 2008

Four Examples of Wikis Working within the Enterprise

  Bill Ives

“A recent Computerworld article, Wikis that work: Four IT departments get it right, provides early adopters success stories at Enel, ShoreBank, NYK, and SAP. The first two used Traction Team Page, NYK used Atlassian’s Confluence and the SAP example did not mention a vendor. This is a comprehensive article that goes into good detail on each example. I recommend looking at the complete coverage.”

Read the full article at billives.typepad.com

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

IT Must Learn to Bend or Business Will Break

  Xavier Bartholome

“The current economic climate is having a devastating effect on almost every business around. In order to adapt to changing conditions and opportunities, businesses will need to use flexible, adaptable systems to survive. The days of expensive year-long implementations of behind-the-firewall software look to be behind us.”

Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

From K.M. to E2.0 - Part II - Best Practices

  Gregory Culpin

“Today, every larger company has locations spread geographically, and even if it is the same company, usually applying the same business rules, one will find that some of these remote locations are more successful than others.”

Read the full article at barthox.wordpress.com

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Ten Strategies For Enterprise Social Networking Success

  Antoine Perdaens

Practical advice for activating the potential for social networking in the enterprise is hard to find, here are ten strategies that can help leverage this popular aspect of social computing in the workplace.

Read the full article at www.socialcomputingmagazine.com

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

The Future of Enterprise 2.0 Technologies

  Antoine Perdaens

Oliver Young, an analyst at Forrester Research, stated that despite there being a lot of buzz about the consumer market for web 2.0 applications, “the greatest opportunity today for vendors is in the business-to-business collaboration space”.

The trends is definitely on social networks and mashups. What about the B2B collaboration spaces. Tools like basecamp started early by providing a simple SaaS solution where one can manage projects with their clients. This trends is clearly growing to bigger needs in enterprises. More than project management, knowledge management can be done with your clients as well.

Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail This Time

  Scott Gavin

This article from Harvard Business Publishing looks at the challenges facing boardrooms across the world in the face of the economic crisis. From creating value to harnessing network effects, the core of the article speaks to those pushing Enterprise 2.0 and KM 2.0 as well as senior management.

“How should boardrooms respond to the macro crisis? Is it just a case of recession-as-usual: budget-paring, personnel-slashing, and portfolio-trimming?
Not a chance. The tactics of recession-as-usual are neither necessary nor sufficient for firms to weather the global economic superstorm - because it’s no ordinary squall, but a once-in-a-lifetime gale ripping up the very foundations of the global economic order. Rather, the macro crisis requires decision makers to confront fundamental transformation on three levels.”

Read the full article at discussionleader.hbsp.com


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