Enterprise 2.0

Blog Entry - Tue, 2008-08-12 11:18 by jim wilde

Web 2.0 and Social Networking Behind The Firewall

"The whole Web 2.0 explosion has moved from the consumer and college student world to professionals in the business world," says Amy Shuen, author of Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide. (O'Reilly Media, 2008).

Blog Entry - Thu, 2008-06-12 07:48 by jim wilde

Web 2.0 And How To Sabotage A Business

Thanks to David Weinberger for his post on the enterprise 2.0 conference.

Blog Entry - Wed, 2008-05-28 08:14 by jim wilde

Web 2.0, Communites, and Business Processes

The original ideas behind web 2.0 communities were about openness and abundance. The ability for members to freely exchange information. Most CMO's and business managers rely on web analytics - they look at quantitative data - to make decisions. CMO's should be changing their thinking about value. Rarely do they have a feel for the qualitative information.

Blog Entry - Sun, 2008-04-20 09:19 by jim wilde

Sorting out social software, community platforms, content management.

Collaborative Tools - Web 2.0 - Social Networking Software - Community Platforms - Social Commerce - Content Management.

Social applications fill in the gaps that traditional business strategies, rigid IT software, and static web sites fail to address.

Blog Entry - Wed, 2008-02-20 12:37 by jim wilde

Enterprise COBOL Applications Meet Web 2.0 - Social Software

JP Rangaswami, on his blog, confused of calcutta, has an insightful discussion, "Musing about enterprise information and flow. ...doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, search engines, aggregators, ad servers, data miners, ad servers and text scrapers?

Blog Entry - Mon, 2008-01-28 16:35 by jim wilde

Is Your Corporate IT Age Showing?

From CW, "Are You Obsolete? How to stay relevant in the world of Web 2.0, Wii and other wonders. According to a growing chorus of IT leaders, consultants and bloggers, IT needs to shift into a new role.

Blog Entry - Mon, 2007-12-31 09:34 by jim wilde

Is the curse of knowledge killing innovation?

NO - we can't read your mind. I find myself on both sides of this idea when I'm listening to clients about their business/products/services/processes requirements and then trying to explain to them the business advantages of social network software. What happens on both sides is we assume too much and expect others to at least have an understanding of the basics.

Blog Entry - Tue, 2007-12-25 10:44 by jim wilde

Business Technology Trends to Watch

Many of these business trends and processes can be implemented using web 2.0 technologies and social software applications.

Community Software Solutions

business web 2.0 solutions Understanding online communities, Web 2.0, social applications, and social commerce are important to your business, and you need to spend some quality time using them to really get what they’re all about.

Blog Entry - Fri, 2007-12-14 14:43 by jim wilde

What do we call personal information management when it moves into shared online spaces?

The net is getting smarter... Things change fast these days... Knowledge, deep smarts, information, data are everywhere... So, people who have the ability, all of us, to imagine and connect dots will thrive.

Misc. 2

Most Emailed

One

Scenario 1. An internal customer has come to you with a problem. Her team is consistently missing deadlines because of poor communication. E-mails frequently go unread for days, members do not respond to questions in a timely fashion and too many meetings are required to get everybody back on track. Read more about Web 2.0 and Social networking behind the firewall...

Two

Scenario 2. You are losing business. Customers are defecting to competitors. Your web site is like a museum - look but do not touch and customer experience is non-existent. Your information is outdated, hard to find and reflects poorly on your brand. There is a significant cognitive difference between browsing, shopping, comparing, choosing and buying.
Redesign your site - join the social web.

Three

Scenario 3. You have problems - gaps - that your business strategy and IT applications fail to address. Your employees, customers, and stakeholders want to get work done. You need to innovate and help people find solutions.
There is no easy way to capture, share, and track important yet informal information. The kind of information that is not organized or reused - it should be - but tends to get lost. The kind that helps you make better decisions, improve work flows, and customer support. Read more....