Can your company be unsuitable for Enterprise 2.0? Check out this recent article and blog about corporate culture and the adoption of social business tools. I say, the path to Enterprise 2.0 is paved on a supportive culture. If you don’t have a supportive culture, it’s nearly impossible to find real success with any social tools [...]
A formal Thank You is in order for putting me on a list of highly influential bloggers! Mark Fidelman put together a very cute chart and included some of the blogs that are well-worth reading if you are interested in Enterprise 2.0. There are other bloggers out there who write great stuff too — some less [...]
I certainly hope this is a growing trend. I’m encouraged to see some more and more examples of companies who are respecting their customers by simply being honest and human with them. Here are two recent examples that came my way. Domino’s Pizza Turnaround. After 50 years of building a successful pizza business, Domino’s started to [...]
In one of the best-known scenes of The Matrix, a young boy in the garb of a monk reveals a stunning revelation to the main character – “There is no spoon“. This concept is the fodder for many philosophical explorations into illusion, quantum physics, eastern religions, and scriptwriting. It becomes clear as the movie progresses [...]
As a bit of a postscript to my last post I wanted to follow up with a few more thoughts about the E2.0 Summit, Germany, and the reason it was so important for me to be there. One of the underlying value statements of the “2.0 philosophy” is that seeking multiple perspectives enhances understanding. This is [...]
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jason Lemkin, the very interesting CEO of an equally interesting company called EchoSign. At first glance EchoSign appears to be a boring service. But I quickly realized there is much more to this than first meets the eye. EchoSign allows you to process electronic signatures on electronic documents. Boring [...]
I’ve added an additional topic to this blog, Personal Online Branding — it’s a loaded term that has recently attracted some attention, and it’s worth talking about. At first it appears to have little to with Enterprise 2.0 (the primary topics of this blog). However there is a subtle connection between the two. In both [...]