Category: Enterprise

KM World 2014 Is a Real Gem

Nov 8, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Conferences, Enterprise, KM World, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Technology

I’m sitting Saturday morning a little bleary (I don’t sleep well around good conferences) waiting for my coffee that can’t brew quickly enough. This past week I spent most of the days at KM World 2014 in Washington, DC giving a workshop on the first day (Tuesday) “Improving Knowledge Flows: Using Lenses to See Needs…
Shift Happened – Part 3: Capturing Decisions in Social

Aug 28, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Shift Happened

In the last 5 years many people have been working amidst a shift in how they work digitally and where they interact digitally with colleagues. They also realize the product of their work may have shifted as well. The work product has long been presentations, white papers, spreadsheets, general reports, etc. These deliverables are products…
Shift Happened – Part 2: Small Apps Loosely Joined

Apr 8, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Design, Devices, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Model of Attraction, Portability, Shift Happened, Standards, Technology, Tools, User Experience, Web

What 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…
Shift Happened – Part 1: More Productive Not Using Productivity Tools

Mar 4, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Content Mangement, Devices, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Portability, Shift Happened, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

Over the past six months or so, I’ve been increasingly hearing from IT leaders in organizations who have been surprised by a shift in how people work digitally. The work patterns related to this shift are far from new and, in fact, are well over a decade old. Nonetheless, some have been surprised by who,…
Broken Decade Precedes It Works Decade

Apr 28, 2013

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, User Experience

I had long forgotten this Carl Steadman response to Michael Sippy’s “Just One Question – What do you want for Christmas”, but the response from 1997 is fantastic and frames the 1990s as the broken decade. (I’ll wait for you to go read it) I’m not so sure that Carl’s broken decade got better in…
Microsoft and the Plan for Yammer?

Jun 16, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Social Software

So, mid-day Friday the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Yammer agrees to sell to Microsoft. This doesn’t mean the deal is announced nor done, and even if that happens it isn’t over until it is over (as Yogi Berra says). There have been a lot of people asking why all of this is important and…
Microsoft and Yammer?

Jun 14, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Enterprise, Social Software, sxd

Yesterday’s news of the rumor that Microsoft is about to purchase Yammer surfaced and Bloomberg was able to get confirmations there were talks happening. This one seemed a little odd last evening as the rumor broke, but then the ambient signals that myself and others had been seeing with Yammer made sense in that light.…
Beyond Simple Social Presentation

Jun 8, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, User Experience

We have been here before. Where we are with social tools in organizations has been done before and not overly well. But, where we are today is a place we have been twice before in my working career. We had groupware and knowledge management tools in this same spot. Similar promise and similar success both…
Presenting “Beyond Simple Social” In SF May 30th

May 25, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, User Experience, Web

I am presenting “Beyond Simple Social” at Salesforce in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 30. Please join us – Eventbright free ticket. Interfaces for social software are simple. But designing, developing and managing social platforms is not. I will present some of the lenses he uses to help companies increase user adoption and engagement by…
Urban Planning to Social Business: Social that Scales

Mar 14, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in City Planning, Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Urban Planning, User Experience

Overview In November of 2011 Gordon Ross and I presented What Urban Planning Can Teach Us About Social Business Design at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara (the presentation is loaded at the end of this post). I was excited about the presentation as it was a great opportunity to place the foundations of…