Blog Posts Tagged With 'social software'
Social software - balance ease of use with compliance
Posted 3 months ago by Jon Mell
23/03/2008
Interesting conversation at Go Big Always which starts off looking at how the simplicity of Social Software "cuts through the crap" of silos, file servers etc. that build up within an organisation and goes on to discuss the problem of balancing simplicity with legal/HR requirements.The answer, of course, is that this is not about the software but instead about behaviours. If the projects are led by business instead of IT (eg "I work this way and by doing so closed these deals which brought this much revenue into the organisation and wouldn't be able to without these tools") then the...
Email shutdown - the experiment continues..
Posted 2 months ago by Jon Mell
29/04/2008
After my post on Wiki ROI which looked at Luis Suarez's experiment of not replying to email but instead responding through social software tools such as wikis and instant messaging, several questions arose from friends and colleagues. At the same time, I made contact with Luis, and this morning we went into some detail on what it is like to stop using email in a corporate environment, and use Web 2.0 collaboration tools instead. The podcast is attached, but here are the main points which I took away: - The main incentive for the content provider (Luis) was to prevent the...
Can a small business benefit from social software?
Posted about 1 month ago by Jon Mell
09/05/2008
One of my favourite quotes about the need for social software was from someone at Lotusphere who was talking about the integration of Bank of New York and Mellon Financial in the States. He stated that the problem was he had 17,000 people over here and 23,000 people over there who didn't know each other and were supposed to drive synergies from the merger. How was this going to happen?Whilst a great example, I've found that when I talk about this to small and medium companies in the UK, the response tends to be that social software is only useful...
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