Insights on Collaboration, ECM, IT Strategy & SharePoint

Social and the Information Lifecycle

Rich Blank — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:28:37 +0000

Often times I find myself trying to explain to people what social is, why it’s important, and why everyone needs to be part of a social network and every organization needs social technology for their enterprise. So I thought I’d step back and look at social in terms of a simple lifecycle of information since [...]

Is SharePoint an Obstacle in Your Organization?

Rich Blank — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:24:44 +0000

With all the hype around everything “social” today, SharePoint is sometimes portrayed in a negative light and an obstacle to enabling collaboration. Competitive pure play social vendors want to blame the tool, point out SharePoint’s short-comings, and hype their own products as new and different. Yet is new and different really any better? Is [...]

Top 3 Considerations for Deploying Social Technology in the Enterprise

Rich Blank — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:15:09 +0000

New article on CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/top-3-considerations-for-deploying-social-technology-in-the-enterprise-014670.php While we might expect social within the enterprise to be easy as Facebook or Twitter, it’s not. Deploying social technology within the enterprise is a journey filled with organizational hurdles that include compliance, security, culture change, executive sponsorship, budget and integration challenges to name just a few. In some organizations, [...]

Social is the Tip of the Big Data Spear

Rich Blank — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:11:30 +0000

There’s been a euphoric halo around all things social. Stick social in front of any word today and it sells: social networks, social business, social software, social media, social CRM, etc, etc, etc. There must be a bubble like the internet of 1999. Except there is no bubble, the hype of all things social is [...]

Communities vs. Portals, Blogs, Wikis, Documents, and More…

Rich Blank — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:17:04 +0000

Imagine a newspaper whose headlines didn’t change very often. That’s most intranet portals. Communities encourage participation by defintion as much as they allow for consumption. And activity streams provide an easy and efficient way to aggregate, consume, share, and engage. With that said, some people like to see a bunch of boxes on a web page [...]

Social Media vs. Social Business

Rich Blank — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:52:06 +0000

When we think about social networks, the big 3 come to mind: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. These sites were built or mostly evolved as consumer platforms. The audience is everyone in the world and the revenue model is commerce – through advertising or sales of products/services. Consumer social media (or social commerce) is all about [...]

A few new published articles

Rich Blank — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:50:23 +0000

Haven’t blogged in a while as I’ve been focused mostly on writing for other sources on the web….here’s a few of recent articles: Just Because You Microblog Doesn’t Mean You’re a Social Business http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/just-because-you-microblog-doesnt-mean-youre-a-social-business-012732.php Social Collaboration Can Drive Significant ROI for Business http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-collaboration/social-collaboration-can-drive-significant-roi-for-business-011606.php Social Collaboration at Kraft Foods http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-collaboration/social-collaboration-at-kraft-foods-an-interview-with-vinicius-da-costa-010603.php Tagged: social business, social computing, [...]

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7 Considerations for Investing in Social Technology

Rich Blank — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:48:31 +0000

Social technology is a trending priority among IT organizations who are beginning to test drive multiple tools both in the cloud and internally. This is primarily driven by the hype of all things social on the public web and explosion of Facebook and Twitter. Often times, business users have already gone outside the firewall and are [...]

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Now Is the Time to Get Social On SharePoint…

Rich Blank — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:46:10 +0000

I hear from a number of organizations who all seem to say they want to roll out and promote the social and collaborative capabilities of SharePoint. And I hear a lot of talk, little action, and a lot of excuses not only from IT but directly from the CEO…. Why is your organization not [...]

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Collaboration in Context

Rich Blank — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:11:58 +0000

Let’s face it….collaboration continues to happen via email. And one of my pet peeves with SharePoint is that it lacks what I call “collaboration in context”. In other words, there’s no linkage or capture of the conversations or activities within an associated item in a list. For example, you create a SharePoint list to track issues [...]