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" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.
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Web 2.0 is knocking on French companies’ doors

February 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, Corporate blogging, HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, about france, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A few words about a recentTNS Sofres survey about the use of web 2.0 in France and user’s expectations.
Just one thing to take into consideration : the following numbers are about web 2.0 users in France that’s to say, according to the survey, 58% of the population. I think it’s even more : people who [...]

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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 [...]

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Blogs increase IBM’s intranet readership

December 2nd, 2006 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools

As we all now, IBM counts thousands bloggers. What people often ignore is that IBM also have internal blogs that preceded the public blogs.
In this interview, Christopher Barger, IBM’s “chief blogging officer” tels something quite interesting about internal blog’s effect on intranet frequentation:
“we launched the blogging initiative internally, and that story on our intranet experienced [...]

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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 [...]

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Using internal blogs as a management tool

July 14th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management

Internal blogs are not a new thing. But, most often, they’re the consequence of isolated initiatives, someone who once says “a blog would be a good thing to manage this project”. Since they’re not a part of a strategic vision and they don’t bring as added value as they could.
Let’s see how internal blogs can [...]

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