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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

Social Media Strategery

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Sounds like we might already be members of dozens of communities of practice – at work, at church, at school, etc. Sounds pretty simple, right?

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Grow Your Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

online communities. SharePoint. International Forum on Enterprise 2.0: International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 The current issue of 7thFloor , an italian business magazine, includes an interview with the speakers from the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0. BlackBerry. boris mann. change management. Clay Shirky.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Yesterday I attended the Sharepoint geekfest at The Hilton Sydney. I plonked myself down in the front row, iPad at the ready, to listen to Daniel McPherson ( danmc ) talk about socialising the business with Sharepoint. Obvious one is Community Moderator for those that volunteer community admin duties. The Game of Work.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. Lots of diverse versions of this.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Oracle has Beehive , Microsoft has added social capabilities to SharePoint , SocialText is in the enterprise, as is IBM’s Lotus Connections , but no category killer has emerged.

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

Social Media Strategery

I spent some time on a DHS-TSA project and our secure laptops only had IE6- it was the biggest pain point of the job and it slowed productivity incredibly – how did anyone navigate 30 websites, sharepoint sites, email windows at a time pre-tabbed browsing? support strongly always! support the write's unique point.It

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

Social Media Strategery

Sharepoint developers implement Sharepoint, yet they don’t use it to manage the implementation. The developers are often the most active members of their respective communities and they’re using their own software day after day in the course of doing their jobs. Notice anything? and Government 2.0

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