On Friday we had a round table discussion related to enterprise social networking (some may refer to enterprise 2.0). Some best practices from real world projects emerged, and there were some excellent questions that raised the discussion level.
Thanks to Bertrand for contributing to this list. Check out his advice on this blog post
For those unfamiliar [...]

On Nov 13th we had a launch event for blueKiwi 2009 in Paris. I was amazed that we got 400 registrations in the first 2 weeks, with place for 200 people. Anyway, a bit of deft eventmanship from the marketing folks meant we had a packed venue and loads of buzz…
We had 2 great opening [...]

Yesterday I went to visit some of my ex colleagues at Microsoft, and I found out that one of my employment practices had been replicated:  recruiting internal people to work for free. I had forgotten about this, but thought I’d write a quick post in case you want to try it out…
My problem when working [...]

2.0hhhh
These days we are flooded by a plethora of 2.0 stuff aren’t we?…. Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, BI 2.0 Outsourcing 2.0,eCommerce 2.0, Resourcing 2.0, Project Management 2.0, Recruitment 2.0, Jake 2.0, KM 2.0, Library 2.0, Health 2.0, President 2.0, Government 2.0, Retail 2.0, Search 2.0, Mobile 2.0, Lift Trucks 2.0, or why not buy a [...]

There is a small, select group of tech analysts (you know who you are) who represent the future of their industry. I’ve done analyst relations in different orgs for many years… and this last week I noticed how large this divide has become.

Most of these great analysts are the independents but there are also a [...]

We are running an event on 28th November at the IoD in London.
It’s a bit of an introductory session to Enterprise Social Networking / Enterprise 2.0 etc. including some learnings from some of our large corporate projects. These learnings are relevant regardless of the technology that you use.
Register here
(posted by Rob Gray)

Raw Talent or Learned?

I read an article in the IoD magazine this morning (also available online), which was a debate about whether “entrepreneurship” is something that can be taught?
The media often takes the view that anyone can become an entrepreneur (why do I always have to spell check that word), however there is a school [...]

This is a presentation I did this week at the Butler Group Enterprise Web 2.0 Strategies Event. The point of the presentation  is how to reduce costs in a time of crisis, but also don’t forget about innovating.
I’ve adapted the presentation to be shown online, with commentary on the slides where I would have been [...]

I presented at the Butler Group “Enterprise Web 2.0 strategy briefing” event on Nov 4th… during my presentation I did an audience poll where they could vote by SMS.
Unfortunately, I hadn’t refreshed my browser just before the poll and the wifi access went pear-shaped as I was intending to show the results in real-time.
LESSON LEARNED: [...]

I included this short video in some presentations I did over the last few weeks. A few people have asked for this video, so here it is.
Basically it shows the people directory, with aggregated tags on the right hand side. I select the marketing tag, it finds all people with that tag. I then open [...]