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Last week we considered ThoughtFarmer vs. SLATES. What about ThoughtFarmer vs. FLATNESSES, Dion Hinchcliffe’s new updated acronym for Enterprise 2.0?
I realized the shortcomings of SLATES after reading this blog post by Jed Cawthorne. He compared old-school ECMs with SLATES and scored them 5.5 out of 6. That’s 92%! For Web 1.0 technology! So what’s missing […]

James Governor recently said of RIM and its ubiquitous BlackBerry: “And who has done more than RIM to change the boundaries of work and play, personal and business communications in this era called 2.0? RIM is the most important company in Office and Enterprise 2.0 in terms of behavioural change, worklife balance and so on. […]

This edition: Debunking three lies about social software. This post looks at JP Rangaswami’s take on three lies about social software: 1) it causes groupthink, 2) it is full of inaccuracies, and 3) it destroys privacy. After summarizing his three debunks, I offered some thoughts on how these lies about social software sometimes affect wiki […]

Back in July I posted a video of my presentation “How do you grow wiki use?” Today, I’m making the slides available as well. It’s taken me a while to post them because my presentations rely on visuals to illustrate the points I make when delivering a presentation in person, and for a long time […]

Hosted software, cloud computing, SaaS. They get so much press you’d think that no one installs software on their private network anymore.
The reality, of course, is that behind-the-firewall software is a much, much larger portion of the market than SaaS — maybe 1000 times larger. It’s just not growing as fast.
ThoughtFarmer, as a web 2.0 […]

Olivier, thanks for the mention of my work! This is a great post on why organizations need to quickly improve their understanding of Enterprise 2.0, stop relying on the stereotypes, and take tools like blogs and wikis seriously.

Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-Founder, recently presented on Organisational Wiki Adoption at WebDirections South 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The presentation is excellent on both content and design - in fact, Mike set a goal of no bullet points: “FYI I set myself the challenge of doing an entire 1 hour presentation with no bullet points - […]

I’ve accepted an invite to speak on two panels (Thurs-Fri) at Office 2.0 in San Francisco, California this week:

Cultural and Technology in Enterprise 2.0 rollouts (hosted by Jevon MacDonald).

This will explore the cultural nuances related to designing, developing and deploying Social Software in the Enterprise. Being a wiki kind of guy I’ll bring some perspectives […]

As online collaboration tools continue to permeate the enterprise, intranet managers need to make their intranet the hub of internal collaboration or risk irrelevancy.
Collaboration means working together to get something done. At a minimum, I think your intranet should facilitate the following three types of collaboration:
Instant Collaboration
Goal: Share ideas and get immediate feedback
Offline equivalent: Face-to-face […]