Category: Tools
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Slack is more than chat: Why it is the trojan horse to better enterprise
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Thomas Vander WalDuring the last couple of years, since Slack has been publicly available, it has taken off like wildfire. To many it is “just a chat service”, which gets derided and belittled like most chat services do. This is until they find that chat has not only a place in organizations it has lasting value in…
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Running Podular Teams
One of the things that has brought happiness from the Connected Company book being out for nearly three years (now in paperback), is getting the idea of podular teams and organization out there for a wider understanding. From 2001 onward I ran my product and project teams in a podular manner. Since then I have…
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The One Social Way – Or not – to Doing Social Really Well in Enterprise
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Thomas Vander WalOne of the interesting things, having been at the heart of social and collaboration for business a good long while (since 1996, no I’m not kidding), is seeing how large organizations who are doing and have been doing social well (more than 80% of employees are active users (more than once a week (often daily)…
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Shift Happened – Part 2: Small Apps Loosely Joined
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Thomas Vander WalWhat are Small Apps Loosely Joined? There has been a large shift in how many people work today and part of that is in the tools that they use to get work done. This shift in work patterns mirrors the shift that many had in their personal lives around social interactions and productivity. Late one…
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Getting Beyond Simple Social
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Thomas Vander Wal“Social is hard!” is something I hear repeatedly by most of my clients and those I talk to. It is one of the issues I continually run across in my work with organizations trying to better understand social software and collaboration tools for their organization as well as helping vendors better understand their gaps and…
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Understanding the Cost of We Can’t Find Anything
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Thomas Vander WalOne problem I often hear when talking with any organization about new solutions is understanding the cost and inefficiency of their existing way solutions, processes, or general way of doing things. In the past year or two I have used various general measurements around search to help focus the need for improvement not only on…
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Optimizing Tagging UI for People & Search
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Thomas Vander WalOverview/Intro One of my areas of focus is around social tools in the workplace (enterprise 2.0) is social bookmarking. Sadly, is does not have the reach it should as it and wiki (most enterprise focused wikis have collective voice pages (blogs) included now & enterprise blog tools have collaborative document pages (wikis). I focus a…
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Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0
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Thomas Vander WalYesterday I made a few comments in Twitter that prompted a fair amount of questions and requests for more information. The quips I made were about the differences between Web 2.0 (yes, an ambiguous term) and Enterprise 2.0 (equally ambiguous term both for the definition of enterprise and the 2.0 bit). My comments were in…
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Stewart Mader is Now Solo and One to Watch and Hire
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Thomas Vander WalThere seems to be many people that are joining the ranks of solo service providers around social tools. Fortunately there are some that are insanely great people taking these steps. Stewart Mader is one of these insanely great people now fully out on his own. Stewart Mader’s Wiki Adoption Services are the place to start…
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Getting Info into the Field with Extension
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Thomas Vander WalThis week I was down in Raleigh, North Carolina to speak at National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) 2008, which is for the people running the web and technology components for what used to be the agricultural extension of state universities, but now includes much more. This was a great conference to connect with people trying…