For a long time, and because many thought they could import the social web’s behaviors in the enterprise as is, the projects aiming at bringing the social dimension within employee’s work tried to structure the enterprise the way the web was. That means people will looking for “communities” that were supposed to fill “social spaces”, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'blogs'
From Google Wave to Social Networks : the social napoleon
November 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Tags: blogs·collaboration·Communities·enterprise 2.0·google·google wave·social networks
IT interests : good news but too much compartmentalization
October 30th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing
I recently came across this this chart about what IT departments are currently thinking about. What inspires me some thoughts.
First point, as mentioned in the post where I found this document, there’s nothing really new. Many of these issues have been discussed for years, some are more recent but even when names change, the topics [...]
Tags: BI·blogs·bpm·business intelligence·cloud computing·IT·social networks
The future of microblogging is…. blogging !
September 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing
A former post on how this two kind of tools can complete each other brought many discussions, both online and offline. Let me say that the approach that consists of saying that everything new is wonderful and has to replace all the things that were there befoore (and become “has been” de facto”) does not [...]
Tags: blogs·microblogging·social computing·social media·web 2.0
Real time web is not a cure-all (and twitter won’t kill blogs)
July 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing
We can hear that microblogging is killing blogging and that, globally speaking, the future of web is real time. An hasty discourse I don’t subscribe to. It does not seem to me that a trend is replacing another but that they are complementary.
This applies to the general public web but also to the corporate web.
This [...]
Tags: blogging·blogs·Communication·consistency·information·internet·microblogging·real time·real time web·social computing·Social Networking·temporality·twitter·web
Blogs are management tools
April 4th, 2007 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0
Bain and Company recently published a survey about 2007 trends in management tools. It’s factual and analytic, don’t expect to find here passionate speech about the anything 2.0 revolution.(download here).
One notable thing is the entry of corporate blogs in the list of the assessed tools. It find it very important that this kind of tool [...]
Do managers have to spend all their time managing interactions ?
January 4th, 2007 · View Comments · Corporate blogging, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management
Indeed another way to ask this question would be : “must people be given tools to organize themselves their interactions or is it the manager’s job to control everything”.
In fact you can see both situations in organizations. In some you’ll have few control, tools like wikis or blogs that allow people to communicate and organize [...]
What emails can’t do, and how much they cost
November 5th, 2006 · View Comments · Corporate blogging, Intranets & collaborative tools
How many emails a day do you receive? And how long does it takes to read it all? 2 hours? How many of them are useful ? 50% ? Considering every people in your company have to face the same situation try to calculate according to the hourly salary how much does it cost in [...]
Blogs as a self development tool
August 23rd, 2006 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Organization & Management
Some people say that blogging is a kind of therapy for them…for most of the it helped them fighting againts shyness since they can express their ideas and expose themselves to public opinion. If their posts meet success they are strenghtened and then they dare more and more…
I was asking myself if, for example, blog [...]
Fired because of her blog: a french “premiere”
July 27th, 2006 · View Comments · About blogosphere, Communication, Corporate blogging
Just when the big question was “is it good for companies to blog?”, “are employees’ blogs a good or a bad thing?” the french blogosphere woke up with a big headhache when we learned that the nice “petite anglaise” got fired beacause of things she wrote on her blog aboute her employer.
“Petite Anglaise” is an [...]
Tags: blogs·corporate-image·employees-blogs·employers-brand·personnal-blogs·petite-anglaise
Blogs as a management tool: what’s important is content
July 19th, 2006 · View Comments · Corporate blogging, HR & Management 2.0, IT
If you’ve read my post about blogs as a management tool, your reaction may (and should) have been “this will generate so much content that it will quickly besome unable”. This clear-headed reaction is half right, half wrong, depending on how the platform is conceived.
Internal blogs have to aims: facilitating communication and managing content. The [...]
Tags: blogs·bluekiwi·internal-blogs·knowledge-management·management·management-2.0
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