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...
They were presented as the next big revolution in collaborative work. Enterprise social networks were supposed to connect knowledge, bring teams closer together, and free the...
Last week, I wrote a long post on corporate social networks, discussing nostalgia for a promising technology that unfortunately preceded the culture necessary for...
In the mid-2000s, businesses believed they had found the solution to a chronic problem: lack of collaboration, silo mentality, difficulty sharing information, inability to...
Since its emergence 30 years ago, knowledge management has sought to capture, share and enhance the collective knowledge of organizations. But despite technological and...
Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced the end of Workplace, its enterprise social network launched in 2016 to compete with Microsoft Teams and Slack. I've...