Full of Enterprise 2.0 Questions
The word “Enterprise 2.0″ has been bouncing around in my brain lately and making a big thud every time it hits the side of my skull.
I have been doing a lot of blogging lately about all of my smart ass answers to some of the issues and ideas around Enterprise 2.0 (aka Enterprise Social Computing).
So, here are my questions that I don’t have answers to, but I am pretty confident that some of you have good answers for me.
* Is there any conversation about marketing that is relevant to Enterprise 2.0?
* If an IT administrator falls in the woods, but nobody is around, did the IT administrator still fall?
* If an old enterprise vendor starts calling themselves Enterprise 2.0, but haven’t changed their software in any significant way, are they still then Enterprise 2.0?
* Does Andrew McAfee, Sloan Management or Harvard Business School own a copyright/TM on the term Enterprise 2.0?
* Is finding a better way to do old things something new in itself?
* Who gets fired? (Somebody always gets fired, even if that means a “lateral move”)
* Is it possible to go halfway towards Enterprise 2.0? Would employees understand if their employer told them that Governance was still King?
* Is it possible that Innovation isn’t good enough? How do you go beyond that?
To be honest, I have my own opinions about all these questions, and I am a little disappointed that I don’t have a better set of sarcastic questions to throw in.
The Dragon’s Den
It probably seems like an OK idea to begin with. You fill out an application, show up in front of some cameras and pitch your company to a bunch of high-end angel investors that you would never have a chance to pitch to otherwise.
In fact, for the startup community as a whole, The Dragon’s Den should be a good thing. It draws attention to the idea of starting your own business, makes it a little sexy and the show is balanced enough to show the failures along with the successes.
NPR is twittering
We wouldn’t have dreamed of this just a year ago. Thanks Andy.
Rob hyndman in globe and mail
Rob Hyndman, fellow PEI Cottager and Toronto snowbird was featured in in the Globe and Mail today. (via Dave)
Rob on Twitter
Rob’s post on Twitter is probably the best yet of all that I have read.
Rob constantly reminds us about the core of what we do: Human Relationships.
When you read that you probably think “well, that’s obvious”, but it isn’t. For well over 5 years (that I have known him) Rob has been leading the charge in trying to understand the nature of the relationships we form through blogging, IM and now Twitter, and he’s got Twitter by the tail this time.
Nobody I know is as capable of deconstructing an organization, or social group, and seeing it’s parts as Rob is. He loves to think of the world in terms of patterns, and it is a way of thinking that has become gospel for me. Reading A Pattern Language completely altered how I perceive things.
Where is Twitter taking us? Many call it a waste of time, many still call instant messaging a waste of time, but I am pretty sure there is a pony in there somewhere. Not since I first fired up ICQ in the late 90s have I felt such a “I’ve gotta tell people about this” feeling.
It may be nothing, but it sure as hell may be something.
KRZR in Action
The extremely cool folks at KRZRBloggers (Hill and Knowlton) sent me a Moto KRZR a few weeks ago to try out. They said I didn’t have to blog about it if I didn’t want to — but how can you not?
I have been a big fan of my SLVR for the last year. It is a solid phone that I have dropped at least 3 times on the pavement, and it always keeps on ticking, so the biggest disappointment about the KRZR would have been if it was not built as solidly as the SLVR. I was happy to see that it was up to the same standard and has a really nice weight. It really feels like you are holding something worthwhile.
I am also not usually a fan of flip phones, but the KRZR is compact enough that it is worth it, unlike many flips.
The downsides are obvious for Motorola. The main downside is the OS. The phone comes with ugly themes and a really hard navigation tree that seems to have different ideas about how to do the same thing, but in different places. Why on earth they can’t make a decent OS, I have no idea.
The other annoyance is that the TAP setting is some weird auto-complete setup by default, which I am sure many people are used to, but it drives me nuts, and you have to change the setting in several places in order to have a universal setting.
The best part is the voice quality, which is really top notch. I don’t really use speakerphone at all, so I can’t comment on that.
The 2MP camera is also a lot better than any cellphone camera that I have seen. I find it a pain in the ass to get the pictures off the camera, so I don’t use it too often, but I would use it a lot of there was an easy way to access the pictures.
What happened at Digg and what does it mean for you?
Now, in business, we are used to doing things often unilaterally, and not worrying too much about the effect on the end user, and the vast majority of us certainly do not worry much about the response of the customer. If you issue a decree to your employees, they are expected to follow it. That is one of the reasons many organizations have very standardized feedback loops: they are good for scrubbing the anger out of most feedback. HR does a wonderful job of that.
Read it all on the FASTForward Blog
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Enterprise 2.0 is already happening, you’re just missing it
The biggest shift, the one that Facebook has shown most predominantly, is that these things are no longer just geeky pursuits that the guys in your IT department get over-excited about, they are the now part of the social fabric of a huge majority of 20-somethings, and the demographic is growing at an incredible rate.
