From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Milestone: Happy Blogversary.

by Gil Yehuda on February 26, 2010

in A gift for you,Enterprise 2.0


It has been one year since I started this blog:  A Blogaversary, or a Blog Birthday.  What a year!  I wanted to take a moment and celebrate the conversation and connection that we have made together.  Birthdays and Anniversaries are interesting rituals, worth investigating for a moment. Birthdays were significant in ancient cultures who saw [...]

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Knowledge Management in Pharma Conference. Part 2 of 2.

by Gil Yehuda on February 18, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


Part 2 of my thoughts after attending a KM and Pharma Conference. This part is bit more unstructured than my usual writing.  Let me just expound on some notes I took. Role Confusion. Of the 60 people who attended, each knows what KM means to them and their company.  But if I asked, I’d get about [...]

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Knowledge Management in Pharma Conference. Part 1 of 2.

by Gil Yehuda on February 16, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


Enclosed is a two-part blog post about a recent conference I participated in.  The conference was about Knowledge Management for Bio-Pharmaceutical and Medical Device companies.  This post is part 1. Those who never heard the term “Knowledge Management” might think that it was constructed by the magnetic poetry kit consultants keep on their fridge. Both words are [...]

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Finding experts in your company.

by Gil Yehuda on February 11, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


I attended a KM conference recently where a speaker remarked on how difficult it was to find experts in his company.  He suggested that HR create a database and every employee should declare that they are an expert in something.  Then when a manager needs to find an expert, he or she could query the [...]

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Corporate Backlash to Social Media

by Gil Yehuda on February 10, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


As social media becomes a mainstream topic, expect to see corporate activity that opens and closes certain on-line behaviors on the part of their employees.  There is one recent case that has hit the blogosphere in the analyst community.  Although I’ve been asked to share thoughts about this case publicly, I must decline.  I don’t think [...]

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Measuring Community Strength

by Gil Yehuda on February 4, 2010

in Enterprise 2.0


I’ve been reading a lot about “2.0 communities” from the perspective of employee communities (related to virtual teams and communities of practice) as well as customer communities (related to interactive marketing practices).  At times I find the word “community” is misapplied.  I’m not the first to notice this.  Rachel Happe, an expert on the subject, blogged [...]

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