Social Business Success Factors

One of the things I’m quite often asked for is the answer to ‘what makes a social business / Enterprise 2.0 project a success?’ What the questioner is after, is often at heart what they need to do to make their project a success. In many ways there’s no definitive answer here as each...

Anti-patterns & Cargo Cult Enterprise 2.0

Anti-patterns Last week I was introduced to a new concept by @stevecrowder namely anti-patterns. I say new, but as will be apparent, the patterns themselves will be familiar to anyone who has worked in either a corporation or small firm where the spirit of Dilbert is left to haunt business practices...

Jive Software’s secret new release

This week saw the unlrelease of iPhone 5, the sad demise of Steve Jobs and JiveWorld 11 in Vegas. Many of course were hoping to see the iPhone 5 debut and were disappointed. No one really expected a Jive 6 to be released so soon after 5 and many companies I know of are still on 4.5, waiting for the right...

Google Calendar as an Internal Comms Scheduling Tool

A post on Tech Republic caught me eye this morning: New features in Google Apps are designed for collaborative teams. Like many people I’ve been using Google + and started to look at some business opportunities for one of my clients. This post made me think of more mainstream options, especially in...

Dunbar’s Number and the Social Business

Dunbar’s Number Most people working with social technologies will be familiar with Dunbar’s Number: the number of people we can comfortably maintain stable social relationships with. Apparently it varies from 100 to 230, with 150 being the norm. This we each typically connect up with and...

Geoffrey Moore on Systems of Engagement

Hard-hitting analysis and recommendations from Geoffrey Moore on the transformations taking place in IT and the move toward systems of engagement. I remember seeing a video he did for Cisco a while back where he described the whoosh sound heard in the early days of the internet when the mass of business...

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