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Five Factors That Influence Successful Corporate Adoption of Internal Social Media and Web 2.0 Initiatives

Five Factors That Influence Successful Corporate Adoption of Internal Social Media and Web 2.0 Initiatives

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Bookmarks, Change, Collaboration, Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, , , Tagging, Web 2.0
While tracking adoption of “web 2.0” applications such as internal blogs, wikis, and social book marking systems by large organizations, I’m seeing a couple of factors emerging that, anecdotally at least, appear to be associated with successful adoption.

Science, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Publishing, , , Technology, sustainability
John P. Holden, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), President, The Woods Hole Research Center, and Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University, delivered a lecture at the annual meeting of the AAAS on February 15, 2007, titled “Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being.”
WIkipedia Revisited (Again)

WIkipedia Revisited (Again)

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Peer Review, Web 2.0, Wiki, Wikipedia
I've witnessed firtshand some of the editorial craziness surrounding Wikipedia. Frankly, I'm tired of the subject. For those who are still awake to this topic and would welcome a wonderfully long and opinionated discussion of the issues swirling around Wikipedia, check out WIkipedia Revisited, by Walt Crawford, in the newsletter Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, Volume 7, Number 3.
Needed: Enterprise Strategies for Innovation, Content Management, and Social Media Infrastructure

Needed: Enterprise Strategies for Innovation, Content Management, and Social Media Infrastructure

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Collaboration, Content Management, Governance, Innovation, ,
Jeffrey Phillips’ blog post Innovation Location suggests that one of the management challenges that the innovation process creates is “… where should it be done, and who should be doing it?” He lists the following possible locations: * Within R&D and/or a product group * Across product groups * White Space innovation * Innovation between a business and a partner * Innovation in the open

Writely Becomes Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Google, Web Office
I learned yesterday that last night a Writely “planned outage” was planned so I rushed to make necessary modifications before I emailed the sponsor tha a new version was available for his inspection. I need not have worried. The planned time, midnight Eastern time, came and went without a hiccup. One moment I was using Writely. The next moment I was using “Google Docs & Spreadsheets” and Writely was no more.

Evolving Social Bookmarking Tools for the Corporate Markets

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Bookmarks, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Expertise Management, Knowledge Management, Personal Data Management, , Tagging, Web 2.0, Web Office
Luis Suarez recently blogged and podcasted about social bookmarking services. He highly recommends BLINKLIST, a service that I have not used. I have been using RAWSUGAR, COGENZ, and CONNECTBEAM, so I also have been forming some personal opinions about social bookmarking.

Using Technology to Bridge Generational and Other Gaps

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Demographics, Enterprise 2.0, Management Tools, Web 2.0
I learned basic data analysis techniques by studying the relationship between demographics and political opinion poll responses. As an undergraduate in a graduate Political Science course at Ohio State University I used 80 column punch cards (send me an email if you don't know what that means) to instruct an IBM mainframe computer to crosstabulate age, sex, income, and race data with voting behavior and political opinions. Now you can do the same stuff online with little more than an Internet connection and a browser.
Introducing Collaboration Technologies to the Enterprise is a Challenge

Introducing Collaboration Technologies to the Enterprise is a Challenge

Dennis D. McDonald
Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0
One of the interesting topics that came up several times at last week’s The New New Internet conference here in Northern Virginia was the challenge of how to introduce collaborative tools into an organization. This is a topic that is well reviewed in a recent post by Shawn Callahan in the Anecdote web site titled Why People Don’t Use Collaborative Tools.

Microsoft "Knowledge Network" Features Begin to Emerge

Dennis D. McDonald
Best Practices, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Expertise Management, Knowledge Management, Management Tools, Project Management, RSS,
One blog I read is the Microsoft Knowledge Network Team Blog (registration required). It describes development and features of the "Knowledge Network" product that will accompany Microsoft's upcoming Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 which is also in Beta status.
The IT Director in a Large Manufacturing Company Discusses "Baby Boomer Brain Drain"

The IT Director in a Large Manufacturing Company Discusses "Baby Boomer Brain Drain"

Dennis D. McDonald
Blogging, Collaboration, Governance, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Transfer, Network Effects, Project Management, Retirement, , Web 2.0
Last week I interviewed “Ferris” (not his real name) about how his company is handling the pending retirement of senior IT staff. Ferris is the IT Director in a large manufacturing company. Ferris’ company doesn’t have the mix of custom legacy Cobol and Assembler based mainframe systems that Boris the Insurance Company CIO has.
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