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What Twitter as email would look like.

If only I could recreate corporate email. <sigh>
What you’re are seeing here is TweetDeck overlaying my Outlook. I only use Outlook at work because I have to. I love the simple fact that TweetDeck let’s me divide Twitter into groups. I’ve organized this by my local friends and everyone else. TweetDeck automatically separates replies […]

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The military to use wiki’s to fight insurgence

Wiki based battle plans? Or Military 2.0?
Counterinsurgencies have been called learning competitions. With COIN, the side that learns faster and adapts more rapidly – the side with the better learning organization – usually wins.

A good friend of mine just forward me a Department of Defense request (sorry no link it was via email):

Counterinsurgency Campaign Design […]

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Walking the Razors Edge

Social media workers walk a dangerous line everyday. Everyday they walk into a battlefield not knowing what fate awaits them. One wrong word, one misinterpreted email, a delayed response to a blog comment; any of these things can start a fire storm that could ruin the reputation of the company or the social […]

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Internal Corporate Social Networking

I’ve gotten a few questions lately on an older post of mine about using Web 2.0 tools inside the company firewall.  One of those queries came in the form of an email from Michelle Rafter.  Michelle writes for Inc. Technology and wrote a post specifically dealing with how companies are using or can use Social […]

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Enterprise Software Creates Silos

Something that I hear over and over again is the difficulty in communicating in large companies.  This is especially difficult across departments (even in the same department sometimes).  Often the root of the problem is company silo’s.
Being geographically dispersed has little to do with it. I’m just as likely to communicate the same way with […]

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Office 2.0 unconference

I just got back from the Office 2.0 unconference and I wanted to make a quick post on my highlights:
I met fellow HPer Jim Rawson and we dominated participated in a session on using internal Web 2.0 to collectively share and aggregate information across an organization. FreshBook’s Sunir Shah shared his work in progress wiki […]

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Back 2 Back 2.0 Conferences

I will be in San Fransisco the first two weeks in September attending back to back conferences.
Office 2.0
My first stop will be the Office 2.0 conference, Wed. Sept 5th-7th. They’re running two tracks, one geared towards the next gen web based office tools and one geared towards the ever buzz worthy Enterprise 2.0.
I’m always […]

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How to Implement New Media inside Your Company

These tips are for all of my friends working inside of large companies, wanting to take advantage of new media but are not sure where to start. Here are some steps I recommend. This advice is meant for deployment *inside* your company. I find it a much easier sell to your higher […]

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Top 5 Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools

#1 Blogs
This one was a no brainer really. Blogs have changed the way we communicate and share information. While blogs are more like someone giving a presentation, they at least provide a great opportunity for Q&A. It amazes me how such a light weight CMS has such a huge impact on our […]

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Follow-Up on WGI’s Internal Blogging

It was almost one year ago that Shel Israel met with Andy Snodgrass to talk about internal blogging at WGI.
I had the opportunity to meet Andy and I had to ask him if anything had become of his interest in internal blogging. I was disappointed but not at all surprised to hear that nothing […]

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