Don’t Start with the Tools: They Are Not Your Final Destination

“Don’t start with the tools. A fool with a tool is still a fool” is the last sentence, and powerful conclusion, from a recent short, but rather thought-provoking, blog post that my good friend, Oscar Berg, shared, not long ago, under the heading “Don’t start with the tools“. In case you haven’t read it just yet, I … Continue reading Don’t Start with the Tools: They Are Not Your Final Destination

The Business Case for Enterprise Social Bookmarking: $4.6 Million a Year in Cost Savings!

A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in … Continue reading The Business Case for Enterprise Social Bookmarking: $4.6 Million a Year in Cost Savings!

Top 10 Use Cases Enterprise Microsharing Will Help You Get Less Email

I have always wondered when would articles like eMarketer‘s "Social Not a Threat to E-Mail" grab that opportunity of providing a bit more of extensive details on the transition that email is currently going through at the moment moving away from being, consistently, that content repository that fits, and suits all sorts of interactions, to … Continue reading Top 10 Use Cases Enterprise Microsharing Will Help You Get Less Email

Trip to London to Participate in SOMESSO / Headshift’s Social Business Summit

After I came back last Friday from a couple of recent business trips to both Madrid and Barcelona to speak at the Lotusphere Comes To You events, and while still recovering, slowly, from a nasty cold I caught on the plane back home, I’m starting to get ready for my next business trip; taking place … Continue reading Trip to London to Participate in SOMESSO / Headshift’s Social Business Summit

Social Computing Training Is All About Changing People’s Behaviours

Last week there was an article published over at Harvard Business Review‘s The Conversation blog that surely attracted plenty of attention all over the place, not only because it certainly is a very good read, but also because it touches base on a key point for a successful adoption of social software within the corporate … Continue reading Social Computing Training Is All About Changing People’s Behaviours

How Will You Manage?

I know that plenty of folks out there do not buy into the argument of the generational divide; most people think it’s just something that has been designed and developed to sell the concept of Enterprise 2.0 to businesses (Specially, if you think about the good old KM meme of "Knowledge Transfer" of senior employees … Continue reading How Will You Manage?

The Adventures of Molly Discovering Social Software – On the Importance of Status Updates

It’s been a while already since the last time that I shared over here a blog post on the wonderful Adventures of Molly Discovering Social Software, so I thought it would be a good opportunity today to come and touch base on the latest episode available and which I didn’t include in that previous article. … Continue reading The Adventures of Molly Discovering Social Software – On the Importance of Status Updates