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Archive for December 2008

links for 2008-12-19

Climate change: 'We need to unleash the power of the masses' | Environment | guardian.co.uk (tags: green inolve climatechange socialnetworks) Why (Real) Relationships Matter – Umair Haque (tags: people human economy relationships authenticity) The FASTForward Blog » Research on the Use of Social Software in the Workplace from IBM: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and… read full post

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links for 2008-12-16

NESTA Connect: It's not about the technology (tags: events nesta government innovation sicamp)

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links for 2008-12-14

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: 2009 Predictions: Collaboration and Social Networking (tags: enterprise collaboration adoption)

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Le Web 2008 feedback

Another year, another Le Web. This year had some good bits, but was overall a bit mixed. I think the event needs some thought next year to stay relevant.

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links for 2008-12-12

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Forums are Full Frontal Symmetry (tags: forums web2.0 people collaboration) Why Intel's social media policy is a really big deal. Really.: The Social Path (tags: socialmedia policy guidelines intel) Facebook Shuts Down "Pro-Genocide" Group (tags: bosnia facebook) How one of the world’s largest consultancies influenced the development of an Enterprise 2.0 product… read full post

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Can you find the people you need?

One of the more common use cases of Enterprise 2.0 is finding expertise within a large organisation. At Lotusphere last year, a representative from the recently merged Bank of New York / Mellon Financial explained the problem (I’m paraphrasing slightly, it was a year ago!): “I’ve got 14,000 people over here, and 18.000 people over… read full post

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links for 2008-12-11

Socialreporter | Asking the Alice question after Amplified08 (tags: events innovation conferences) Linkedin : from social networking to business intelligence for people | Bertrand DUPERRIN's Notepad (tags: socialnetworks linkedin business intelligence) MediaShift . Wikis Still Slow to Catch on Internally, Externally | PBS (tags: wiki adoption) Carbon-calculating data site Amee scores seven-figure investment | Media… read full post

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Getting started with enterprise social networking

Notes and slides from a talk I gave at Online Information 2008 in London about how companies are starting to adopt internal social networking as a serious business tool, and some tips on how to get started.

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Should knowledge retention be high on organizations’ agenda?

Yesterday I stumbled across a post by Gordon Ross of Thoughtfarmer talking about a client where 50% of its staff is eligible to retire in the next eight years. What a massive brain drain! But we don’t even have to go that far into the future. Times are tough now. The lists of laid-off employees… read full post

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links for 2008-12-09

System failure and fuzzy thinking. (tags: systems organisations customerservice socialmedia)

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