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The horizontality of society is a collective illusion

Since the early days of the web, and even more so with the advent of social media, there has been widespread talk of the promise of a horizontal world, free from traditional hierarchies, where speech would flow freely and whose foundations would be trust and recognition. Everyone would be able to speak out, be heard, influence and weigh in on public or internal debates, without any authority filtering or organizing the exchanges. The web, and then social networks, would have achieved what decades of sociology and democratic demands had failed to...

Serendipity doesn’t preclude control : a few rules to manage fate within informal networks

Everyone is conscious of informals networks' power within an organization. But their informal nature causes of lot of (sometimes) legitimate fears because seen uncontrolable....

IT will matter…but differently

While social computing platforms emergence within the enterprise seems to be unavoidable, the debate on "does IT (still) matter" is coming back at the...

Enterprise 2.0 by the example with All.U.Link at Alcatel-Lucent

When I say that enterprise 2.0 issues are  becoming more and more important for companies, it's not only words. After the experimentations time, comes...

From repetition to differenciation

Companies find hard to adopt the "2.0" attitude, just because it targets an unexploited field of the organization. Since novelty applies to an...

The best search engine is you

Access to qualified information is a double challenge : first because information is the new economic oil, second because we're snowed under information. Google showed...