Musical chairs …
Posted on April 17, 2009. Filed under: BT case study, Twitter, Web 2.0, communications, intranet, organisational culture, social media, social media guidelines | Tags: BT, BT Intranet, social media, social media guidelines, Twitter |
Wow … has it REALLY been that long since I last posted??
In my defence, we’ve just finished a high-stakes game of musical chairs in my bit of BT – when the music stopped, there were 25% fewer chairs to sit on and they were arranged in a different way.
I had to dust off [...]
Here today, gone tomorrow …
Posted on February 9, 2009. Filed under: KM, Web 2.0, knowledge, social media | Tags: Computer World, John Seely Brown, knowledge management, social media |
I’ve seen lots of articles recently asking whether social media is the death of knowledge management (KM) … I’ve even written about myself, albeit nearly a year ago now.
In this context I was struck by an answer in Computer World from John Seely Brown to a question about what he learnt at Xerox (thanks to [...]
Feel the fear and do it anyway …
Posted on November 21, 2008. Filed under: leadership, organisational culture, social media | Tags: BT, credit crunch, leadership, organisational culture, social media, sustainability |
For the first time, I’ve started writing a blog post without really having a clear idea about what I want to say or what point I want to get across. Given the growing tide of bad news battering our lives at the moment, it felt like a good idea to write something about … well [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )When innovation becomes a subversive activity …
Posted on November 17, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, intranet, social media | Tags: cost cutting, credit crunch, ROI, ROI of social media, social media |
As times get tough, people get laid off and budgets get squeezed, the facility to try stuff in organisations gets increasingly difficult. The need for watertight, up-front business cases before you can even try anything is probably the most cited reason for failure to kick-start social media tools on intranets. In common with every other [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Time for a reality check
Posted on October 30, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, intranet, organisational culture, social media | Tags: blogging, BT, hype, micro-blogging, social media |
I’m reading an increasing amount of stuff taking swipes at social media along the lines of … it was all just hype … it’s not delivering what it promised etc. I guess it was only a matter of time before we switched from build-it-up mode to knock-it-down mode which so often seems to pervade our [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 12 so far )Adapt or die …
Posted on October 16, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, credit crunch, leadership, organisational culture, social media | Tags: Charles Darwin, credit crunch, leadership, social media |
It’s weird, you spend your whole life never having heard a particular quote, and then it pops up everywhere … the one in question in this case is this one:
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )Crazy chess …
Posted on September 1, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, leadership, social media | Tags: chess, management 2.0, social media |
I was watching my 7 year-old son and his friend play chess at the weekend. Well, I say play chess, what they actually did was randomly spread the pieces across the board, take it in turns to randomly move them about, occasionally take an opponent’s piece and laugh a lot!
I was thinking to myself: ‘What [...]
Intranet evolution …
Posted on August 29, 2008. Filed under: blogging, intranet, social media, social networking | Tags: blogging, BT Intranet, BTpedia, enterprise social network, intranet evolution, intranet search, Outlook, podcast, SharePoint, social media, wiki |
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )It’s all about people being people …
Posted on June 20, 2008. Filed under: social media | Tags: social media |
I’ve had a pretty hectic few weeks and hope that I’ve been able to spread the word about the benefits of social media a little more widely. It’s nice to be back in the office. So what did I learn from my travels?
People are still incredibly interested in using social media tools within organisations, but [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )My slides from International Employee Communications Summit
Posted on June 10, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, communications, intranet, social media | Tags: International Employee Communications Summit, intranet, social media |
I managed to struggle through man-flu to do my key note presentation at the International Employee Communications Summit on 6 June. Here are the slides … enjoy … questions/discussion very welcome!
(If for any reason you can’t see the slides, they are also available here).
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