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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

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Development Social Media Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? These are purposely ridiculous questions – wouldn’t the best developers use the actual tools they’re responsible for building? Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Enterprise 2.0 Isn’t About Social Business, It’s Just About Business

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Paradoxically, sometimes the best way to implement social tools are to not refer to them as social tools. tools into the actual business. It’s about realizing that these tools are a means to an end, not the end itself. tools mentioned above have helped with this moderate cultural shift.

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I Didn’t Fail the Test, I Just Found 100 Ways to Do It Wrong

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.&# You could have the greatest tools in the world, but no blog or wiki is going to work if this is the culture in which it’s implemented. adoption and spending is great, but nothing resonates as well with a senior leader as actually getting them to sit down and use the tools until they have that “ah-ha&# moment for themselves.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. With the growing ubiquity of Enterprise 2.0

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Enterprise 2.0 Success is About the Players, Not the Field

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or Social Business software. There are numerous conversations among senior leadership about how to mitigate the risks of your employees using the tools “as a dating service,” to “goof around,” to complain about everything, or editing things they don’t know anything about.

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Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship

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Sites that are supposed to show data flow in fact are partial and ideological — so often it’s extreme leftists merely baking their ideologies into these tools and celebrating themselves and their consulting. You’re also right on about open source software – it’s not always the answer.

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The People I Will (and Won’t) Meet at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference

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software or that SAAS isn’t an option, but very rarely do I actually see any of these individuals at these conferences. Where are the people who are actually supposed to be using Enterprise tools to do their jobs? Time and time again, I find myself talking with a client about Enterprise 2.0 The average employee.