Enteprise 2.0, Chicken? or the Egg?

I apologize for the light blogging lately. I’ve been sick for the past few days. My daughter loves to bring the latest colds home from day care and pass them along to me.
Anyway, I’m getting caught up on all the action going on the past few days and came across this InformationWeek article on Enterprise [...]

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Web Design meets Print Design – Coming Full Circle

I found it interesting that Business 2.0 recently redesigned their magazine to give it a Web 2.0 feel. Just 10 years ago it was the opposite. Web sites tended to have a distinct magazine feel to them. Especially with the number of print designers making the switch to the web. Now you have web designers [...]

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Marketing Using a Single Voice? Good Luck!

I love it when companies try to have their employees promote the company message using a “single voice”. Does this ever work? We’re all suppose to have the same 30 second elevator pitch ready go at any moment. My guess is that if you poll 30 people from the same company, you’ll receive 30 different [...]

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Challenges of Implementing Enterprise 2.0

Excellent blog posting for those interested in learning more about implementing an Enterprise 2.0 environment into their business. I originally wrote my view point on this but accidentally closed my Firefox tab. Until I get over wasting the last 20 minutes, I’m only going to provide the link to Andrew McAfee’s post.

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Shared Drives, Ugh!!

I came across this post today by Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO and co-founder of Atlassian.
Shared drives drive me crazy. It’s always the number one solution that IT comes up with to appease those looking for a way to share documents. It’s quick and easy to implement and gets the requester off their back in a hurry. [...]

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Less Email = Better Corporate Communication

My email is out of control. Not in the sense that I receive too much volume (although that can be a problem) but in the sense that tracking projects, archiving important resources, and keeping up with company information is not what email was originally meant for and I’m guessing there are many people feeling the [...]

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Conversation Mapping

I’m not sure how this fit into things but here’s a thought I had earlier today…
Today, if you were to visualize how news spreads, it would look something like this. Picture a globe spinning in your mind. As that globe spins, picture one point on that globe briefly flashing. This flash represents a new blog [...]

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Wasted Corporate Knowledge

One, if not the most, valuable resource a company owns is the information stored on each employee’s computer. This information is filled with employee knowledge and understanding of their specific role with an organization. There are thousands of Word documents, spreadsheets, and presentation files that would be a valuable resource to other people in the [...]

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The Wiki Intranet

Apparently, I’m a little late to the Wiki intranet game. Avenue A | Razorfish launched such an intranet a few months ago. It’s wonderful to see that a lot of things I had in my head are already shaping up in the real world.
I especially like how they can bookmark content from digg, Flickr, [...]

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Google Spreadsheets

This week I started using Google spreadsheets so I can share information at my company without worrying about version control and emailing separate files to everyone. So far, this has worked great. If I’m logged into the spreadsheet at the same time as someone else, we’re able to see updates happen instantaneously which makes it [...]

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