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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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blueKiwi : the good use of conversations

February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The last “Virtual Enterpise 2.0 conference” was  a good opportunity to visit some vendor’s booth to know what to expect from them in 2010. I finally had a look at  blueKiwi to see what was new at our European leader.
[Disclaimer..: I joined blueKiwi at the versy beginning of the company and left in last décember. [...]

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Social Networking for Business : a collaboration engineering guide in the 2.0 era

February 18th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

If you read this blog it may be because the new approaches to collaboration and among them social networks interest you. You surely get their potential. You surely understand that deploying a tool, put passion and energy in your projet and pray is not the best way to make things work and achieve tangible results [...]

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Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and personal constraints

February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Like it or not, the smallest unit of work is the individual task. People’s workday is made of achieving tasks, and even in the context of group or collaborative work. A group only delivers the sum of the tasks achieved by its members. That’s why coordination matters. We can even say that, how ironic, knowledge [...]

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Is workload measurement the problem of the century ?

January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, IT, Organization & Management, social computing

Optimizing workload has always been a key concern for businesses and managers. A too heavy workload regarding to the capacity leads to explosion, a too low workload means resources are wasted. I don’t even mention last minute assignments to face imponderables. In brief, bad adjustments have an heavy price.
In a manufacturing economy things are more [...]

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What future for enterprise social networks ?

December 18th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Social networks are often the key part of every “2.0″ internal projects ? Why ? Because when the purspose is not to find people or informations anymore but to link people through information and information through people, that’s the essential link between tacit and informal knowledge, those who have it and those who need it.
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Will you know how to export your conversations and focus on transactions ?

December 7th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, HR & Management 2.0, Social Networking, recruitment

The world of communication and marketing is worried because of the consecration of digital medias, an highbrow word used to talk about the web by people who are suddently feeling out of date.
For many people, the revolution brought by the web is the so-called new “power” that’s in internauts’ hands. According to me this power, [...]

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From Google Wave to Social Networks : the social napoleon

November 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

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”, [...]

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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 [...]

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To build strong online social networks, better focus on your offline networks

October 29th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Human resources, Social Networking

Businesses begin to be more and more aware of social networks’ benefits. I’m, of course, talking about online social networks, a topic that’s been hot for several months. Talking about social networks for businesses often makes me think about two things :
- since the  network logic has been know and used by many professionals and [...]

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Convergence ? You said convergence ?

October 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing

Once again I found this nugget thanks to Luis Suarez . And as usual, the same question comes to  me : what does it inspire “normal” people with ?

Tags: convergence , medias , mobile telephony , mobility , social media , social networks , telephony

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