Bertrand DUPERRIN’s Notepad

You must have felt this agitation that went through the blogosphere these last day, but that was also relayed by traditional medias. Web 2.0 is dead. The rumor didn’t start from this note from Michael Arrington but since he’s got a bigger loudhailer than most of the population his voice carried farer. Then hundreds if [...]

Social networks seem to be used to fit nearly any case, regardless to the fact their value come from the context. As an example, my newtorks on facebook and linkedin have nothing in common, links are built upon different criterias, in different contexts. Knowing than Mr. so-and-so is one of my contacts on one or [...]

You all know my creeds : tools must be made to improve the way people work, companies must improve their agility by working as networks (and even more in these difficult times…) etc. ect. and this vision seems to be shared by many people who often ask me how to put it into action.
Many of [...]

I discovered the term “techno-populist” while reading this businessweek article. This expression, originally due to Forrester, designates people who flout their company’s IT policies in order to use in their professional lives the tools they use in their private life.
Wendy wakes joined Unilever when she was 27. Within the marketing department she quickly experienced the [...]

When we talk about connected enterprises and interconnected and interdepent employees, it’s hard for many people to imagine this kind of reality, to visualize what it may look like in their day to day job.
That’s not a suprise. Just try to think like anybody who’s been using for at least ten years three communication modes [...]

When talking about social media within companies, one of the most common objection is “I don’t wan’t my people to waste their time writing and discussing, where’s the ROI”.
Of course there are strong arguments to explain the possible benefits. Arguments that are more than tangible because communicating and exchanging is key to perform in knowledge [...]

Information overload has thress main causes : the first is information dispersal among too many tools which force people to continuously switch from one to another in order to be sure not miss anything, the second is the fact people are affected by the information flow that fall on them as is they were at [...]

I know that many of my readers are more “enterprise” than “2.0″, but it’s important to have a look at what’s happining to the general public in order to understand what will happen to businesses tomorrow. First because the behaviors being developped always impact in one or anoter way the way people behave at work, [...]

If there’s a big confusion around enterprise 2.0 it’s because of its perimeter, what  makes the concept very nebulous for novices and even for specialist who sometimes seem to disagree although hey are sayning the same thing in different ways.  The question is to know if 2.0 applied to business is about the whole business [...]

You must have already heard about serendipity, the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. This is the best way to gout out of the common path instead of recycling the same ideas again and again, which often leads to the same overused solutions. But in  order [...]