The search for the key triggers to Enterprise 2.0 adoption is still on-going. Many contributions have already been made, but the master plan is yet to be defined (if there is even one to be identified!). In our “Enterprise 2.0 Adoption” paper Joachim summarized quite some concepts and ideas of last year’s Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT. [...]
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Social objects as explanation of the E20 significance of social messaging
Moxie – An interesting Enterprise 2.0 tool
Some days ago I got a presentation about Moxie, an enterprise social collaboration sollution. Moxie’s basic philosophy is to design their solution the way people work They see that people work with people and that they work together in groups and projects. This is reflected in the structure of Moxie’s ‘Home page’ which features (customizable) [...]
Blogtronix – New Release
Last week I got a live presentation from Eli McCargar from Blogtronix. They call their solution an Enterprise social platform. I know it from our social messaging vendor study very well. So we agreed to focus on the new features, as I will do with this blog post as well. Everything around groups Working in [...]
To install an internal blog isn’t always easy
Using blogs within a company can be a useful tool. Looking for a best practice example for a seminar I had some discussions around this topic. I recognized that it’s not easy to start and run a successful good blog. One example out of my projects shows that it can fail easily. A business manager [...]
IT Knowledge needed
We are discussing many topics talking about Enterprise 2.0 adoption, but IT was brushed a little bit under the carpet on the actual debates. I agree that other topics like motivation, strategy, communication or culture are very important, but the functionality of the used solution must work properly as well to run successful E20 projects. [...]
Microblogging as a Corporate Tool
The discussions about micro blogging services have reached another peak these days with Yammer winning the beauty contest at TechCrunch50. Despite all reservations regarding Yammer not being very innovative this incident at least turned on the light on looking at micro blogging services as Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Identi.ca or as well Yammer (see full list [...]





Demystifying the gamification idea for the Enterprise 2.0
In a recent article on eWeek Chris Preimesberger features Jive Software as the “leader of the pack” in bringing the “gamification” idea to the intranet. While I was first enthrilled about the headline of the article, I was disappointed at the end. Why? Because the article leaves the reader unclear in which extend the solutions [...]