Archive for the ‘Enterprise 2.0’ Category

Social Media for Business: Don’t Pump & Dump!

You’ve got a business and you’d love to find new customers online. You’ve heard that social media can do that for your business, but you don’t know where to begin. If that’s where you find yourself, then you must know that there are 2 key elements you must have in place in order to succeed in [...]

Blogging: Beware of Mad Customers!

Blogging can be one of the most powerful tools your business can use to build your business’ brand. This statement might be a bit confusing to anyone who thinks that “branding” begins and ends with logos, colors and images used on signage and in advertising. Sure, those visual design elements are crucial elements in building your [...]

Office Memo: Use Social Networks!

If you work in an organization of any size, it is very likely that you are already being discussed in social media somewhere. One of your employees did something wrong on the internet today somewhere. Eventually, you are going to hear about it or be asked to assess the severity of their action. You will [...]

Enterprise 2.0: Business is NOT as Usual!

Booz Allen Hamilton is one of those organizations that pops up every time Enterprise 2.0 is mentioned. It seems they must be the only large business doing stuff in the Enterprise 2.0 space! BAH just flicked the switch on the next generation of their intranet, hello.bah.com. According to a release from one of the technology providers (this [...]

Wikis: The New CMS, only smarter!

Anyone who’s worked on even one team project in an enterprise can tell you what a nightmare document management can be. E-mails follow divergent paths. Spreadsheets and Word documents get passed around, and nobody’s quite sure who has the most recent version. The admin who’s been taking meeting notes and storing them on her hard [...]

Micro-blogging: Less is More!

Are you using Twitter to reach your customers and followers? Do you update your status on Facebook several times a day? Maybe you daily ask questions of one of your specialized LinkedIn groups? You can replicate this experience inside your organization. There are a number of internal solutions that allow employees to share messages and [...]

Busted: Police Academy on Twitter

I was flibbing through MX today on the bus, when I read this: It’s great to see government sectors embracing the use of social media to promote their activities to advertise and communicate with the public!

Social Media Legal Issues in the Enterprise: You Have Been Served!

We are in the midst of a communications revolution. Use of social media for communication purposes continues to grow, while “old school” messaging media like email is on the decline. Facebook reportedly has reached 500 million users worldwide. Much like the Cloud computing there is an almost buzzing excitement around social media, and many companies are wanting to exploit social [...]

Enterprise 2.0: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly!

How to Assess the Benefits And Risks of Implementing Enterprise 2.0? Implementing Enterprise 2.0 is about change. New technologies are deployed, work processes evolve, and possibly organizational structures shift. Benefits and risks are associated with any change. A governance-based approach to Enterprise 2.0, as taken in this report, requires examining, understanding, and addressing these benefits and [...]

Web 2.0 in the Enterprise: Riding the Wave!

Understanding Web 2.0 The term “Web 2.0” was coined in 2004 for the name of a conference organized by O’Reilly Media. It soon became a pervasive way of describing the emerging phase of the Internet, epitomized by popular social media tools such as blogs, Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, del.icio.us, and tagging. One of the challenges of [...]