A lot of information and knowledge are available in companies, government departments or other organisations. Many of these are handled with security to avoid that they appear outside of the companies and organisations, but nowadays it’s really difficult to make sure that it not happens. The publishing of more than 250.000 US State Department documents [...]
Wednesday I did a presentation at the Twittwoch in Cologne and presented our Social Messaging (Micro blogging and sharing) study. I showed some of the features and explained why we chose them. The input options of the solutions was one of these examples. I mentioned options like sending an e-mail or sms to create status [...]
Luis Suarez (IBM) has been working in the areas of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Online Communities and Social Computing for over a decade now. Here are some of his thoughts on that topic and his appearance at the Enterprise 2. SUMMIT. 1.) You take part in the panel on different adoption archetypes for Enterprise 2.0 initiatives. [...]
With the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT only one week ahead I really need to publish my thoughts and perceptions about the status quo of Enterprise 2.0 in Europe and our ideas towards what we want to achieve with this upcoming conference. You might already have read the recent interviews (at Isabel Ayel’s blog or Wissensauslese) about [...]
A number of scholars have argued that if an actor’s partner in a network form of organization possesses considerable legitimacy or status, then the actor may derive legitimacy or status through the affiliation. This legitimacy or status may in turn have a number of positive economic benefits for the actor, ranging from survival to organizational [...]
Lee Bryant, co-founder & director of Headshift, will be talking about an holistic approach to the collaborative enterprise in his keynote at the Enterprise 2. SUMMIT. This is what he told us in advance about his views on the social business design. 1.) Please give us three tags that describe what to expect from your [...]
But talking about the Enterprise 2.0 “evolution” we also have to distinguish between the E20 reality and the E20 visions – as defined by the evangelists in this field. For the E20 reality I would say that (at least for the German area) the projects around the topic of Enterprise 2.0 are not yet spinning [...]
A well know way to rate content is the “I like” function on Facebook. It’s easy to understand and used by a lot of people. Generally the people rate that they like things people describe and sometimes the quality of the content. I guess pictures are a good example to show the problem with such [...]
While I was working on the analysis of our social messaging provider study, I had to think about tagging. It sounds as it’s easy to implement tagging at an Enterprise 2.0 system, but it isn’t, if you really start thinking about it. Tagging is generally a good solution to classify content. It’s some kind of [...]
Does Social E-mail helps to enable Enterprise 2.0
E-mail is still be used from everybody. Young people are moved to chats and social networks, but nevertheless they have e-mail. So people are familiar with it and it’s available in every company. Why not add social media moving it to social e-mail. There some tools availble which support this approach. I found these two [...]