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Exploring the HR Management Framework for Enterprise 2.0 February 3, 2010 By Jon Husband Categories: General IT Staffing Solutions Web 2.0 (cross-posted at the FASTForward blog) The title is a dead giveaway, and I am using the term 'framework' loosely. Why ? Because I think no one really knows what a large-scale transition to social computing and collaboration as core work activities really means for today's (and tomorrow's) human... Employee Engagement – a Core Goal of Enterprise 2.0 Adoption ? January 25, 2010 By Jon Husband Categories: General IT Staffing Solutions Web 2.0 By now, reams have been written about the possibilities offered by the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities. The interest continues to grow as the daily use of the Web at work approaches ubiquity. Also, reams have been written about why the engagement of knowledge-work employees is a central... The Personalization of Knowledge Work in the Interconnected Era January 7, 2010 By Jon Husband Categories: Web 2.0 Wireless The brief post set out below (The Personal Enterprise) comes from Peter Kim, Managing Director of the Dachis Group. It reminded me of the many times I have written about the personalization of knowledge work, or the mass customization of knowledge work. It should also be a brief bit of additional... Edward Lawler on new management models (as what what I call “wirearchy” emerges) December 18, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 Ed Lawler is a reknowned management thinker I have studied for years. He was just interviewed (by Karl Moore, a management professor at McGill University) for the Toronto Globe and Mail on the need for new management models in the Interconnected Era. . New World Needs New Management Model Karl Moore:... What Does 'Socially Calibrated' Mean as an Element of Social Business Design ? December 9, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Ever since hearing of "Social Business Design" – a term associated with the Dachis Group’s positioning as a blue-chip expertise-and-experience based consulting firm focusing on helping enterprises operate more effectively in an interconnected business environment, I have been struggling to clarify... Webinar – How to Drive Demand Generation with an Inbound, Social Media Strategy December 8, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Presented by Marcus Tewksbury, Director of Alterian Customer Intelligence Flip the funnel. Flatten the funnel. Get rid of the funnel! These aren’t some loony, fringe ideas, but rather the thinking of some of the leading marketing minds of our time like Godin, Meerman, and Brogan. Everyone recognizes... What’s New About Social Business Design ? November 9, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 There has recently been a spate of aggregation of the higher-profile individuals in the Enterprise 2.0 field, resulting in the launch of groups like (for example) Dachis and Altimeter, and the coming together of Ross Mayfield’s SocialText with Dion Hinchcliffe’s capabilities. The term “social... 101 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Hospital October 19, 2009 By Shahid N Shah Categories: General eHealth Social Networking Web 2.0 The LPN to RN Blog has a nice posting on 101 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Hospital. It’s worth checking out. Shahid N. Shah The Healthcare IT Guy Participation Points October 8, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Web 2.0 Recent studies have come out that present a sobering look at celebratory claims that online activities are an effective means of participatory democracy. 1) Pew’s study this month, The Internet and Civic Engagement, finds that predominantly the people that participate in online political activity... Media, Arts and the Community .. an example of useful convergence October 5, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 There’s a growing number of forms of experimentation with community development and social activism that combines a wide range of artistic expression (writing, painting, sculture, participative expression, video, dance, VJ, DJ, photography, mixed media, etc) with community development. One such... Need Help Coming up with a Suitable Research Area September 28, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Web 2.0 Just two weeks into my PhD studies and already I will soon have to submit a research proposal. It's a class requirements to help us submit for grants, so we're not tied to it. Still, I've been frantically trying to narrow down my areas of research interest to prepare for my grant submissions.... Social Media ... Fad or Fixture ? August 26, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 The Social Media Revolution . As another datapoint on this issue, here’s a take from the blog ReadWriteWeb on the staying power, with aa particular focus on the emergence and staying power of what is coming to be called the “Real-Time Web”. . The Real-Time Web Is Not Hype: We Are All Traders Now Hype... Crowdsourcing and Customer, Employee and Stakeholder Engagement August 17, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. In a comment I suggested that crowdsourcing for visioning purposes was reminiscent of the use of OD (organizational development) principles and methods often found in large-scale organizational or... HP's Personal Video Mailbox - Gabble June 17, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Back in March, I looked at a beta project HP had underway called Gabble. Since then it has improved tremendously. This site allows for individuals to create Twitter-ish small (2 minutes to so) video entries that others can subscribe to. You can define sub-groups related to specific topics... It... Connected … For Better and Worse June 10, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Just noticed this piece (extracted below) while I breezed through the NY Times this morning. I must say that this brief extract mirrors my experience. I have any number of friends and colleagues who have worked hard to eliminate or give up email … always because of the jam-ups they experienced, always... Twitter squatters creating brand confusion June 3, 2009 By Ben Bradley Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Now what? A Twitter land rush? Fantastic article here by Julian Lee. http://business.theage.com.au/business/squatters-creating-twittering-confusion-20090429-andk.html "Trademark Twitter identities are being snapped up. "Some companies such as Billabong have been quick off the mark, snapping up names.... Tim O’Reilly Dissects Implications of Google Wave for (by extrapolation) the Knowledge Workplace June 1, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 (cross-posted at the AppGap blog) Basically he takes it apart and discusses how and why Google Wave could be an order-of-magnitude leap forward in enabling effective collaboration. In other news, I’ve heard this past week that Microsoft will plug in, or layer over, Sharepoint with the old Lotus... How Social Media Can Improve Communication and Collaboration During A Public Health Crisis May 29, 2009 By Shahid N Shah Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 My friends at Ozmosis, the Physician to Physician social network, have put together a nice presentation entitled "Health Alerts & Lessons Learned from H1N1". They’ve done a good job describing how simple social media tools can help clinicians communicate with each other during a public health... Invest in your company for compound interest May 20, 2009 By Paul Marshall Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 So I was talking to someone who had the following story for me as we discussed social media and it’s important role in brand building and community & employee engagement. Associate: Social media is a waste of time! I started a Facebook page for my business, I did some blogging, I twittered…heck... News the new way May 13, 2009 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Last night, protests that have been taking place in Toronto for the past few weeks at Queen’s Park and the US Consulate spilled onto the Gardiner Expressway, the elevated freeway that runs through downtown. It was this event that brought home to me on a personal level the way the world is changing... Swine flu and business continuity May 8, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Web 2.0 I sat in on some presentations by a group of seniors and grad students a week or so ago at the University of North Texas. One of the presentations was about business continuity. Unfortunately, they had a very IT-centric view that was more about data disaster recovery than real business continuity. ... Is your message clear? Twitter your business description April 30, 2009 By Paul Marshall Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Had an great conversation while attending the [RCM09] conference on the value of simplicity. Many organizations, including mine, can be accused of complicating their message and making it difficult for their employees, their customers, their prospects and their community at large to understand what... Google voice heard 'round the world March 31, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General VoIP Web 2.0 I've heard some discussion of Google Voice changing the telecom industry in fundamental ways. I personally don't see how it could have as much impact as Skype and other VoIP related approaches had, but I may have missed it. This new Google Service (essentially a re-launch of GrandCentral, which... A Dynamic Two-Way Flow … A Visible First Step March 27, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 I think this (below) is interesting .. and of a piece with a thought I had today whilst watching President Obama at today’s press conference, namely “Wow, it sure is refreshing not to have to listen to Bush anymore. This guy is way smarter and more articulate, and listens a lot better !“. "Today,... Do You Remember the Pre-Internet “Managing By Walking Around” (MBWA)? March 24, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 … which I think was a term coined by Ken Blanchard of “The One-Minute Manager” fame. I was a panel member on “The 22nd Century Corporation” at the CIO Summit in Toronto in November 2003. Don Tapscott was the lead-off presenter. During my turn on the panel, I suggested that the then-current interest... Building a Community... Step 1 March 18, 2009 By Paul Marshall Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 My company Ivara operates in a fantastic market that is full of opportunities to engage with a robust, knowledgeable group of employees, customers, competitors and thought leaders. While the current economy presents challenges for us and our customers alike it is also a great opportunity for us to... NowPublic adds geotagging, lands Emmy nom March 2, 2009 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Web 2.0 Vancouver-based NowPublic is already well known for deploying Web 2.0 technologies to great effect: the crowd-sourced, participatory news network has garnered praise from Time magazine. Last year it won a PICK 20 innovation award and now the company can add an Emmy nomination to its credit list. ... Learning As a Way of Being … in Business and in Life February 20, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Learning as a Way of Being - Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent Whitewater is an excellent book by Peter Vaill, to which I have returned regularly over the past decade when I want to think deeply about learning. Here’s another take on the same issue by the inimitable Jay Cross of the... Listening To and Talking With Your Current and Potential Customers - SNCF February 18, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 During a recent business trip to France, I met with a range of business people interested in and involved with early Web 2.0 initiatives in the corporate arena. There’s a lot of interest in the area (as there is in North America) and it seems to be growing rapidly. Publicis (the advertising giant)... Mobile Apps Market Already Bigger than Online Advertising? February 13, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: Web 2.0 A Reuters article this morning suggests that Nokia is joining the rush towards mobile software sales. This is old news. More interesting is that, in the article, Strategy Analytics forecasts the value of the mobile content market -- including downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, video, mobile... Typology of Online User Participation February 10, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 One of my main research interests and certainly a topic much discussed due to the flowering of social media and Web 2.0, is user participation. But I've been thinking what exactly are all the forms of online user participation? How does participation differ from interaction? I would define user... Get yer graph on January 9, 2009 By Danny Bradbury Categories: General Web 2.0 Journalists and fiction writers alike often need access to data about all sorts of stuff. Writing a story about how consumer confidence and home prices just nosedived? Might be handy to be able to correlate the two together, over a 20-year history. Maybe you might want to check them against... Getting New Business from New Digital Media December 31, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 With the advent of new digital forms of communication, there are new means for businesses, consultants, specialists, or freelancers, to generate new business. Some sources mention the importance of a website, but then offer tips amounting to little more than creating brochureware. Therefore, I felt... Predictions for 2009 December 29, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Green Tech ICT Hardware and Infrastructure Professional Services Social Networking Software Companies Web 2.0 For the last 4 years I've put out a blog entry of my predictions for the coming year - like most others do. Since this is a year where the world will be coming out of a financial crisis, I'll try to be a bit more conservative than in the past. It this situation, the investments in technology can... How Will Cloud Computing Affect the Information Technology Outsourcing Marketplace? December 12, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Web 2.0 I was in a meeting with some HP and HP-EDS colleagues today discussing Cloud Computing and strategies in the megatrend/shift it is causing. There are various early entry variant permutations of cloud (Amazon, Google, and Project Caroline/Hydrazine, to name a few) targeted at rapid development and... Twitter During a Crisis December 11, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 A friend sent me the article by Shel Holz about the role Twitter played during the Mumbai terrorist attacks. I've read other postings in response to the request by the Indian government people to stop twittering information that the terrorists could use. I read pieces about the role Twitter and... Need and relationships December 9, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 I participated in a graduate course the other day at UNT where the class was talking about the future of technology and the impact on business. One of the individuals attending made a statement that I'd thought about to some degree, but never quite as blatantly as he put it. We started with a... Discussing Online Accessibility on International Day of the Disabled Person December 3, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Online Education and MBAs Software Companies Web 2.0 Today is the international Day of the Disabled Person, so it’s fitting that the United Nations and Internet professionals and experts worldwide have gathered at the Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad to address the issue of improving website accessibility for the disabled. The session, my first... Types of Internet Media November 18, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Web 2.0 Every time I need to think of how communication is different on Internet media I keep needing to make a mental run-through of all the various distinct Internet media. So to save time next time, here is a list of Internet media. Please let me know if I missed something or included something that... Enterprise 2.0 - France’s Excellent Chance(s) November 17, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 The following notes are an opinion piece, not a rigorously researched and articulated article. I have just had the opportunity to spend a week in Paris, meeting and talking with the team at blueKiwi, under the leadership of Carlos Diaz and Christophe Rouitheau, two dynamic and intelligent young... Personalizing Collaborative Work … Individuals and Co-creation October 24, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General Online Education and MBAs Social Networking Web 2.0 My friend / colleague Harold Jarche maintains an highly informative blog and website focused on elearning and the design and application of social computing to learning and effective knowledge work. He recently uncovered an interesting graphic that speak to the notion of the individual user operating... Social Internetworking October 16, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 How the Internet Can Help Organizations Benefit From Social Networking When Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty followed the trend of employers banning Facebook at work and banned it for Ontario civil servants, he asserted “I just don't really see how it adds value to the work you do in the workplace” ... Transparency on the March? October 2, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 We are, in my opinion, collectively watching the "mainstreaming" of a revolt against top-down decisions being imposed on citizens and decision-making processes. People interconnected on the Web are making this happen. Just one of many examples … CNN pulling up comments from online contributors (via... Interested in Web 2.0? Pick up a good book September 30, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is hot right now but there is more hype than knowledge about it out there. That lack of understanding was one of the main themes to come out of two round table discussions held recently by Backbone and KPMG. One of the panelists, Michael Sikorsky of Cambrian House pointed the crowd in... Using Evernote with a virtual assistant September 29, 2008 By Danny Bradbury Categories: General Web 2.0 I’ve been playing with Evernote for some months now, and I’ve been gradually integrating it into my working life. I had a bunch of different requirements, and I’ve been able to bend Evernote to support all of them. It’s a web-based system for storing notes, and it also comes with clients for the Mac... Trumpeting Toronto Tech September 24, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 This Monday was the first day of the Toronto Tech Week conference. The event's goal is to foster Toronto as a tech sector and help position local companies to make the most of new and emerging technology. As such, Web 2.0 was a hot topic. Despite the much-hyped claim that Toronto is the third... FUD is holding back Web 2.0 September 11, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Web 2.0 While all the cool corporate kids are talking about nothing but Web 2.0 these days, it turns out this brave new world actually scares the heck out of most companies. A new study from research firm Coleman Parkes found most companies have no formal plans to launch a social media project. The study... CNN Using Twitter and Facebook During Prime-Time News September 8, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: Web 2.0 I’ve just been watching an interesting new component of CNN prime-time news, wherein Rick Sanchez, one of the current anchors, flashes cherry-picked items from Twitter (Rick’s Twitter Feedback) and from Facebook (Rick’s Facebook Feedback) in order to counter or reinforce the story he has just... Making the Most Out of LinkedIn - For You & Me August 5, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 Now that I'm no longer employed by my former company, I have updated my LinkedIn settings. I also registered glenfarrelly.ca yesterday and thus am now qualified to join Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), so I added that to my profile as well. LinkedIn offers a lot of features that are... MyFamilyHealth is a great Web 2.0 health site August 1, 2008 By Shahid N Shah Categories: eHealth Web 2.0 The folks at MyFamilyHealth.com have combined online genealogy, social networking, and basic personal health record management for a single and eminently useful purpose: learning more about your family’s medical history to help improve your own health by better understanding your genetic risks. It... Employees of the next generation enterprise… July 24, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 I've mentioned the way different generations use computers before. Tom Hill pointed me to this article on the Military's recognition of the situation. There is a great deal of useful information for corporations in this article. Since the topic seems to be showing up at more conferences it's... Internet Usage in Canada for last year July 22, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Statistics Canada recently released their new report on Canadian Internet usage. Among the most interesting findings: Almost three-quarters (73%) went online for personal reasons last year - up from just over two-thirds (68%) in 2005 Ontario is above national average at 75% (Alberta & BC... Lee Bryant @ Reboot … The Network Era Is Here To Stay July 17, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: Web 2.0 Via Bertrand Duperrin (whom I enjoyed meeting in Montreal in May .. a very clever and passionate fellow who scours the Web for everything related to Enterprise 2.0). The network era has been here and has been growing and is here to stay … and there is an opportunity to use technology to help us all,... Mentors, Gatekeepers and Technology delivery of value for social networks July 11, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 Recently there have been some articles about the valuation of LinkedIn and it outpacing Facebook. I was talking with an MBA candidate (that I mentor) about social networks. We were discussing the size and value of his Facebook network vs. mine in LinkedIn. He mentioned the concept of gatekeepers,... Social Media Explained June 24, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 I'm in the process of researching the role of users in creating content and noticed that CommonCraft had recently produced a video on social media. CommonCraft's videos are the best - explain new concepts in ways easy to understand and remember. Glen Farrelly Webslinger Management 2.0 June 9, 2008 By Shahid N Shah Categories: Web 2.0 Are CIOs seen as obstacles to innovation? In a nice interview with Gary Hamel, Allan Alter at CIO Insight writes: "The efficiency-focused management model has run its course, says strategist Gary Hamel. To see the future of management, look to the Internet, open source, free markets and democratic... Negotiating Multifaceted Identity Online in Social Networking Websites June 6, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 Our real-world identities can be multifaceted and contextually fragmented - we behave one way at work, and another when drinking with friends. Yet social-networking websites collapse “relationship types and contexts into the ubiquitous ‘Friend’” (Boyd, 2007, p.134). Thus one’s online social network... Open Ontology Repository – a step closer to Semantic web? June 3, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: Web 2.0 In April, the National Institute of Standards and Technology was one of the sponsors of an Ontology Summit. The theme was "Towards an Open Ontology Repository". They've created a Wiki for the Summit as well as a summary of what took place. This is of interest because developing an Open Ontology... Aftermesh May 23, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 I should be sleeping, but I figured I would just be recapping in my head the take-aways from the Mesh conference I attended today and yesterday, so I might as well blog it. Mesh is without doubt Canada's web conference, attracting Canadian speakers and attendees doing some of the coolest online work... eMail is for Losers May 16, 2008 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: Web 2.0 For many years I have been saying 'email is for losers'. The way email is used and the way email systems have been designed—I felt there is something fundamentally wrong with the picture. Some examples that highlight this are: people/organizations do not know how to use email—or how to manage it... Do yourself a favour: buy some music online April 30, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Web 2.0 There have been two rather odd announcements lately in the world of Canadian music retailing. The first came from Sony BMG. The company has started selling a product it calls the Platinum MusicPass. In Sony BMG's plan, when you want to buy an album you drive to a store, buy a Platinum MusicPass card... This year will see collaborative work take off. And then go too far April 22, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Web 2.0 A camel is a horse designed by a committee. It's an old joke and, as such, speaks to a deep-seated suspicion of group work, as does the old saw about too many cooks spoiling the broth. The theory is that groups of people cannot produce a good product, because everyone's opinion has weight and has to... Accounting firms are not marketing with blogs April 8, 2008 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General Web 2.0 Law firms continue to outpace accounting firms when it comes to harnessing the power of blogs to market their services to current and potential clients. A recent post by Michelle Golden asks the question “Isn’t Your Firm Blogging Yet?” and the answer apparently is no. The post quotes this one from... I Think We'll See More Of This March 17, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 I got up early this morning (5h15 am) so that I could go and frolic in that nice white fluffy powdery stuff called snow, falling down the steep sides of cliffs in a barely-controlled fashion. I love very much this activity, as you have to stay completely "in the present" to avoid doing significant... For All Those Who Have Said Blogging Was Just A Fad ... March 11, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: Web 2.0 I remember literally scores of conversations over the past five years with smart people in various areas of business and the professions ... almost all of whom were over approximately 35 years old ... in which they were dismissive of blogging, for one or other of the various now-well-known reasons... User Tagging Effective Aid for Online Searching March 6, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 Due to an ever-growing abundance of online information, there is increasing difficulty in finding useful information. Currently, most web data is coded to instruct browsers to display data, without regard for meaning. By adding metadata to denote what data means, search engines can offer more useful... Can Microsoft catch up? March 3, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Software Companies Web 2.0 There's a buzz online right now that Microsoft -- long weary of all the attention young-upstart Google is getting -- is finally getting ready to strike back with a more extensive online offering of its own. Check out CNET's blog for one good entry on this. The CNET post quotes blogger Nick Carr, who... Interview for a job, get paid February 15, 2008 By Neil McIntyre Categories: IT Staffing Solutions Web 2.0 The site is called NotchUp and allows employers to pay to interview job candidates who otherwise wouldn’t be looking for a new job. Associated Press has the lowdown: How it works: You plug in your industry, job, pay and experience into a calculator on the site to help you set your pay for an... Academic Research Online Is a Walled Garden February 12, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Online Education and MBAs Web 2.0 I've been consumed for the past three weeks researching and writing papers for my Master’s program. I managed to write one paper an Internet topic (a semiotic analysis of folksonomies) and added as many Net references in the others as I could. In the process of researching online on online topics, I... Facebook as the intranet January 9, 2008 By Neil McIntyre Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 When I first heard about the company using Facebook as their intranet, I wasn’t sure what to think. "Serena Software is really replacing its existing intranet with Facebook as a front end linked to a low-cost content management system behind the firewall. The firm is just over 800 employees but is... Cyberchondriac or healthy surfing? December 20, 2007 By Glen Farrelly Categories: eHealth Web 2.0 The CBC, my favourite online news source, ran a story three days ago on how people obsessively look up their medical ailments on the Web. The article, while pointing out some legitimate concerns, tended to depict these people as crackpots and hypochondriacs. Indeed, the article was even called... In praise of old-fashioned lazy entertainment December 19, 2007 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 From a recent Nokia press release: Up to a quarter of the entertainment consumed by people in five years time will have been created, edited and shared within their peer circle, rather than coming out of traditional media groups. "The trends we are seeing show us that people will have a genuine... I Don't Think I Fully Agree ... Fishnets November 29, 2007 By Jon Husband Categories: Web 2.0 .. with this statement lifted from the recent Globe and Mail review of Gary Hamel's book The Future of Management. -- The End of Management As We Know It ? [ Snip ... ] We also must learn from the Internet's example of widespread, leaderless collaborative effort. "The Web has evolved faster than... Using RSS to keep up with your favourite sites November 26, 2007 By Neil McIntyre Categories: Web 2.0 If you want to keep up with this blog but don’t want to have to remember to check back on a regular basis, one option available to you is the RSS feed. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or... Using wikis or blogs to manage knowledge in firms November 16, 2007 By Neil McIntyre Categories: Web 2.0 A recent article on WebCPA confused and inspired me: Accounting firms need to become more intelligent businesses by better leveraging the time and knowledge of their professional staff, according to a survey… […] Firms with a formal knowledge management program benefited from its implementation. ... Google Apps is great, except for the Patriot Act and confidentiality and all that November 13, 2007 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Software Companies Web 2.0 My editorial in the current (November 2007) issue highlights some of the significant advantages that Google Apps delivers to corporate users. (The article is here.) It prompted a letter from reader Jim Charters of Toronto, and before I go any further I want to thank Jim for writing and to encourage... Dave Snowden Podcast ... The Impact of Web 2.0 on Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management October 29, 2007 By Jon Husband Categories: Web 2.0 I recently caught up with http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/, the well-known complexity theorist / expert and acknowledged guru on the construction and use of knowledge ... quite a feat given Dave's last-minute bout with gastroenteritis, his round-the-word schedule and his doggedly determined... Please select a category:
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