7 DAYS AND MORE

Live-Waving: Enterprise 2.0 Masterclass with Dion Hinchcliffe

2009-11-10T14:50:00.007+01:00

This is my first live-waving experiment from the Enterprise 2.0 masterclass at the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT in Frankfurt. Let's see how Google Wave integrated in a blog works! You need a wave account to follow!

A Google Wave Overview in Less Than 10 Minutes

2009-10-04T20:45:00.012+02:00

This Google Wave overview shows condensed in 7:52 minutes

hosted conversation with Google Wave vs. eMail (including realtime conversation and integration of gadgets)
drag-and-drop files to Google Wave from the desktop
publishing a Google Wave into a website / blog (with inline discussion and aggregated conversations)
document creation using collaborative editing and inline discussion (including playback for investigation of the history of a wave)
the application of robots for a Google Wave and interfacing other communication systems using Twitter as an example
realtime communication with support of a translation engine

Basics of the Social Media ROI

2009-08-29T08:14:00.007+02:00

Oliver Blanchard's great narrative about the basics of the social media ROI:

The what, why and how of Social Media ROI: Business definitions, methodologies and situational narrative. This presentation's purpose is to clarify what ROI is and isn't within the context of Social Media and offers a basic explanation of how to tie Social Media activities to real ROI

Olivier Blanchard Basics Of Social Media Roi

Twitter - A Learning Tool?

2009-08-05T13:08:00.022+02:00

A recent study from MMB-Institut für Medien- und Kompetenzforschung came up with the result Twitter has a very low relevance as learning technology in German enterprises for the next three years.

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post titled Three Practical Ideas for Using Twitter in E-Learning. Four ideas (maybe more if you look also at the comments of this post) how to leverage Twitter in a learning endeavor from this post are:

Follow the Subject Matter Expert
Follow the Subject
Build a Community
Use it to send out FAQs

But is this eLearning? The dominate intended usage of the Internet according to Ruder Finn's Intend Index is - to learn! And learning is associated with "Educate Self", "Research" and "Keep Informed".

Lauren Milstid wrote an enthusiastic comment to the above mentioned post:

Twitter is a perfect learning tool. It’s a quick and easy way to get introduced to new ideas and resources by credible people.

Maybe German eLearning experts really don’t know much about it or don’t do much with it. I hope we can leave Dr. Werner Oppelbaumer's knowledge level regarding Twitter in the near future :-)

Click here to watch Dr. Werner’s presentation.

If hooded pullovers meet the shirts and ties

2009-03-20T16:35:00.005+01:00

For the reader "DNAdigital. Wenn Anzugträger auf Kapuzenpullis treffen (If hooded pullovers meet the shirts and ties)" from Willms Buhse and Ulrike Reinhard I had a conversation with Martin Koser, frogpond and Frank Röbers, Synaxon AG, about the CEO 2.0. Our discussion was about leadership, digital natives and appropriate organisational models. Our contribution (in German) starts on page 174.

Some contributions are in English language, so enjoy the ebook.

DNAdigital - Wenn Kapuzenpullis auf Anzugtraeger treffen

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Fiction & Literature eBooks dnadigital dnad

How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

2009-03-09T09:13:00.003+01:00

Evan Williams, co-founder and CEO of Twitter reports in this short Ted video on the history of Twitter as a side project of Odeo, uses of the service they didn't anticipate and how users shaped Twitter.

Why do you like Twitter?

2009-02-14T09:43:00.004+01:00

To give a somehow scientific validated hint I have go back to 1956. Elliott Jaques, an organizational psychologist want to understand the changing culture of a factory and tried to measure the responsibility in work studies. A few years later he introduced the concept of the mid-life crisis, but this is not a story for this post. In 1956 Elliot Jaques' research leads to a concept which he names "time span of discretion". Simply put, time span of discretion of the work in a role can be determined by identifying the longest task for which one is held accountable. An example: as a CEO of a company you have a very long time span of discretion. You can not expect to get a feedback about your initiatives for creating a future oriented business system in 6 month nor in 3 years. Therefore the time span of discretion is a method of measuring responsibility. This concept could be also used to explain rejection of self-management. A person will simply be unable to do the work required by the job until he get appropriate feedback over time.

Twitter is changing the time span of discretion in many ways. Twitter would not solve all problems of late feedback about the quality of a CEO's decision. But Twitter could lead to a change in the time span for many activities. You can receive feedback in shorter cycles, and often and maybe more important new feedback loops are created. How do you feel when your Tweet becomes "Retweeted" several times? Did you really never check how often a link you had posted has been opened? We as human beings are looking for feedback, and we want to reduce the time span of discretion for our activities.

Two examples I received unexpected feedback via Twitter these days:

When we are looking for ways to get appropriate and rapid feedback Twitter is an interesting medium. We can receive positive and negative publicity. Using Twitter we can attracted considerable attention, receive intrinsic motivation and capitalise on reputation. That's why I like Twitter!

Employees Suck

2008-12-10T13:31:00.008+01:00

John Buckman talked at Le Web ‘08 about entrepreneurship and self-employment. His advice for employees: quit your job, make intellectual goods and sell them for their true value. He provokes:

“You can be productive at a large company, if you are slightly talented or creative."

But what is his proposal? Get self-employed or become an entrepreneur! If you are interested you should listen to his presentation. If not – maybe the best is if you go back to your work. And if you want to become an entrepreneur? His proposal is “don’t quit your day job”.

Browsing his presentation on slideshare.com is recommended if you work in a startup or if you are an entrepreneur. A lot of advice like "do not borrow money" or "salespeople are a bad idea".

Employees Suck

It’s not easy to decide to whether follow his advice or not. But it’s worth to think about it.

Connecting Through Happiness

2008-12-10T11:06:00.003+01:00

Conductor Itay Talgam gave a really inspiring talk on leadership, connectivity and emergent structures at Le Web ’08. An orchestra is a good metaphor for collaboration:

“Conducting is somewhat different from being a manager. It has not exactly the same meaning as being chef or a leader. In orchestras the leader is the first violin player. But the conductor has another job. He has to make people connect. So it is about connectivity, about becoming a conductor to enable other people to work together.”

His presentation of management styles of different conductors, how they support, praise, encourage or punish the orchestra, give a lot of insight into leadership.

A complete workshop on this topic by Itay Talgam is available in three parts:

Itay Talgam on management styles (Part 1)
Itay Talgam on management styles (Part 2)
Itay Talgam on management styles (Part 3)

Leadership at the End of the Age of Information

2008-12-10T08:28:00.004+01:00

For David Weinberger from Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, leadership in the past knew everything and leads by keeping information limited to their followers. Information "flowed up" to the leaders, at the top, the natural place for decision making. Now information is everywhere and available for everyone. This is a good time to rethink our ideas what leadership is and means. David Weinbergers journey at Le Web '08 starts with the statement "decision-making is a failure of leadership". The unnatural position of one man, knowing everything, at the top of the pyramid will come to and end.

He is arguing for decentralised forms of leadership in the 21century corporation, as an essence of Enterprise 2.0. Leaders are not longer isolated heroic figures when we allow for more emergent and crowdsourced forms of leadership. Leadership is a property of network, and this has also a consequences for politics. In his talk at Le Web '08 he also argues for reputational democracy vs. representational democracy.

[Update] Podcast interview with David Weinberger at "cruel to be kind" from Nicole Simon.

Enterprise Microsharing

2008-10-07T11:54:00.002+02:00

I found this quote today:

IBM’s got BlueTwit. Oracle’s testing OraTweets. SAP’s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide.Best Buy’s “Mix”: Enterprise Microsharing Goes Big - Pistachio

The Future of E-Learning

2008-09-09T09:03:00.004+02:00

Bruce E. Peoples showed us some interesting slides about possible future directions for standardization activities. Connectivism and learning ecologies have been mentioned also (click on the chart to see his full presentation).

Best-Practices and Success Factors for Cooperation Systems

2008-08-22T09:06:00.001+02:00

The next interview in the Enterprise 2.0 forum pre-conference series is now available at Enterprise2Open. Michael Koch from the Cooperation Systems Center Munich, Bundeswehr University München, shared his views and research results about Enterprise 2.0, but also on University 2.0 and Academia 2.0. Bjoern Negelmann provides the English version of the interview, thanks!

More about Michael Koch's research can be found here.

Enterprise 2.0 at adidas Group

2008-08-21T11:49:00.003+02:00

I had the opportunity to have a pre-conference interview with Christian Kuhna, head of Internal Communications of the adidas Group. adidas is aiming for a global intranet portal, which integrates a round of Web 2.0 ideas and technologies. Up to now they’re having a variety of 25 heterogeneous intranets islands, which makes it hard for employees in this global enterprise to cooperate and even to find information.

Martin Koser from frogpond was so kind to provide a translation of the key parts from the interview for the English speaking world.

Wikinomics

2008-07-23T14:25:00.002+02:00

Don Tapscott's presentation at the 3rd Dresden Future Forum on the relationship of Internet technology, the economy and society in the 21st century (with a German introduction).

Cloud Education

2008-07-02T21:14:00.002+02:00

Judy Breck's keynote from Microlearning2008. It will make you reflect on how education is shaping to be in the near future. Her interactive presentation is here. Enjoy!

This transcript could be found via MAMK:

The node junction between web assets is the most important component of online learning.

As education now roars down the road into the dynamic cloud of open content, the proprietary aspects of learning can and likely will continue as underground enterprises. There will be confidential archives, some tutoring inside walled gardens, subscriptions journals (alas!), and distance learning for hire. Surely, there are aspects of education that should and always will remain private.

Nonetheless, the vast new open network that cloud computing is billowing up makes the open-one-web a stunning opportunity to deliver and optimize open knowledge to billions of people. The new generations will visit the cloud through their mobiles. The optimization will be done at the micro level of the content - which is why at the node junction lies the most important opportunity to give juice and trust to educational enlightenment.

Innovation and Microinformation

2008-07-02T20:50:00.003+02:00

Teemu Arina is partner and CEO at Dicole Oy, a company focusing on understanding the role of social technologies in knowledge work and networked learning in organizations. This is his keynote speech from Microlearning2008. Enjoy!

Read more from Teemu Arina: Blogs as Reflective Practice

Managing Microinformation - What I have learned at Microlearning2008

2008-06-29T14:18:00.015+02:00

MICROLEARNING2008 :: Microlearning & Capacity Building took place on June 25th-27th, 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria. A lot of exciting content was presented and - as nowadays common - also recorded. But today for recording you need not only a writing pad and/or a laptop but also a digital camera, a video camera, a sound recording unit, a mobile for streaming content (hopefully with a flat rate), or different kinds of other handheld devices ets. All these units produce some kind of content, and if you put all this information in a widget it could look like this one:

It seems to me the third wave of Web 2.0 is coming. This wave is not focused on blogs, Wikis and photo or video sharing (Web 2.1). It's also not longer only microblogging, social bookmarking and (community-) mashups (Web 2.2). It's now about lifestreams, collaborative tagging and filtering, streaming live information from mobile devices, widgetizing information (Web 2.3).

Web 2.0 has evolved from user generated content and collective intelligence to a new forms of cooperation enabling and capacity building (eg. upgrading of performance abilities).

[Update 02.08.2008] Found a good example for Blogs (Web 2.1) vs. Lifestreams (Web 2.3): The Future of Blogging Revealed

What You Can Do With Twitter

2008-04-26T06:30:00.002+02:00

A story about James Karl Buck's use of Twitter in an urgent situation. Twitter helped free himself from an Egyptian jail.

Enterprise 2.0: A Progress Report

2007-11-29T15:26:00.001+01:00

Andrew McAfee gave an interesting speech at IDC's EUROPEAN ICT Forum 2007. He is a little bit pessimistic about a fast adoption of E2.0 technologies but pointed out E2.0 will play out over the next several years and will make the difference between companies.

[Duration: 00:47:05. This audio was recorded by THE EUROPEAN ICT Forum 2007 on 2007-11-11]

The Avenue A | Razorfish Wiki

2007-11-01T20:45:00.000+01:00

A presentation with very useful insights into the Wiki features (homepage, integrated blogs, project pages, people pages), some quantitative analytics, technical implementation details and conceptual challenges.

What can Enterprises Learn from Teenagers?

2007-11-01T19:19:00.000+01:00

Don Rippert, Chief Technology Officer from Accenture, has a look at services teenagers use:

"Teenagers today have no concept of a world that is not connected via the internet. How they live and operate in that connected world, using collaborative, social networking platforms and creating and sharing content that they manage, tag and recommend to their peers can provide enterprises with some valuable lessons to apply within their own organisations."

Corporate applications lag behind the services and this is a opportunity to create more efficient and effective working processes.

Behind "Enterprise 2.0" Performance: Exploitation or Exploration?

2007-10-14T14:46:00.000+02:00

A great post about enterprise adoption of Web 2.0:

"Organisations won't survive with routines dating back the 20's - 50's."

The 100% Guaranteed Easiest Way to Do Enterprise 2.0?

2007-10-14T14:32:00.000+02:00

A short, but very powerful post from Euan Semple.

Why We're All Blogging Less

2007-08-16T10:48:00.001+02:00

Stumbled upon this list at gapingvoid.com:

We got busy.
Scoble quit Microsoft.
Blogging isn't for everybody. Web 2.0 is for everybody.
Believe it or not, some of us have better things to do than to be continually justifying ourselves to a crowd of passive-aggressive, self-loathing, loser fucktards.
The future we spent a long time evangelizing has already arrived.They said what they had to say, then moved on.

Hmm ... See you also at del.icio.us, Pligg, Pownce and Twitter. Maybe there are different kinds of "blogging"?