Category: Social Software
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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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KM World 2014 Is a Real Gem
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Thomas Vander WalI’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…
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Shift Happened – Part 1: More Productive Not Using Productivity Tools
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Thomas Vander WalOver 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,…
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Alexander Howard Interview with Christopher (moot) Poole from October 2011 Transcript
The video interview is at YouTube Christopher Poole Interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 4Chan is 8 years old and Christopher founded it when he was 15 years old. Transcript of the core conversation: Alex Howard: … What have you learned along the way? Christopher Poole: I think that I’ve learned more about what not…
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Coming Out of Hiatus
Things have been a bit quiet here, but many changes on this side of the screen are settling and allowing idea and writing focus. One of the things I am pulling together are my columns from KM World on Personal Knowledge Management (it unintentionally went into hiatus at the same time). One of the great…
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Mistaking the Edges for the Norm
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Thomas Vander WalOne of the best lessons from social quantitative analysis in grad school (public policy) was learning to understand if you are viewing edge cases or the norm (mainstream). Humans have some common traits, but when you start to design or develop any sort of program (be it government services or social software) you start to…
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Microsoft and the Plan for Yammer?
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…
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Microsoft and Yammer?
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.…
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Beyond Simple Social Presentation
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Thomas Vander WalWe 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…
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Presenting “Beyond Simple Social” In SF May 30th
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Thomas Vander WalI 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…