Systems and humanity …
Posted on August 28, 2008. Filed under: community, intranet, social media | Tags: community, KM, user generated content |
I was being shown a really impressive KM site yesterday on our intranet that one of our professional communities has set up with a view to rolling it out as a template for other professional communities across the business. They’d really given it a huge amount of thought and put a lot of effort into [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )What’s the difference between business and social content?
Posted on June 24, 2008. Filed under: intranet, organisational culture, social media, social networking | Tags: community, social content, time-wasting |
None … no, really! If you deploy social media tools in an enterprise setting (i.e. as business tools), then ALL the content within them is business content … including stuff about cars, cats and football. It has to be governed as business content and the business value has to be recognised.
I mentioned in my one-but-last-post [...]
Depressed and disconnected (2) …
Posted on November 2, 2007. Filed under: communities, social networking | Tags: community, conspicuous consumption, Facebook, friends, global warming, social networking, suburbs |
One of the objectives of developing suburbs around towns was to get people to buy more stuff. Unfortunately, it worked rather too well. While I wouldn’t wish to blame suburbs entirely for the break down of community, they did help release the brakes on the juggernaut of conspicuous consumption which is used by many people [...]
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