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Making Web 2.0 Work in Large Enterprises

“Six ways to make Web 2.0 work” in the McKinsey Quarterly claims that Web 2.0 efforts within enterprises (blogs, wikis, podcasts, information tagging, prediction markets, and social networks) are likely to fail unless–

1) Senior executives become role models and lead through informal channels, for example the CEO starting a blog

This only works if there exist senior leaders who get it and can make a contribution through Web 2.0 channels that employees recognize as genuine and distinct from existing channels of communication. It comes down to the issue of…

Virtual Teams Need Face Time Too

The February issue of Harvard Business Review includes a “breakthrough idea” from Sandy Pentland of MIT, How Social Networks Work Best, that confirms what we have learned in years of managing virtual innovation teams: Web 2.0 tools are very useful when teams are gathering ideas and information but when the time comes to synthesize that information and decide where and how to proceed, teams benefit tremendously from face-to-face interaction.

The article describes the decision process of bees in determining where to locate a new hive. More…

Denny Crane and the Influence of Networks

Okay, enough about SharePoint, here’s something more thought provoking about networks.

Earlier this season on Boston Legal, Denny fired an associate because she was fat and got sued for wrongful termination…

Nancy: But I wasn’t too fat for you to hit on?
Denny: Well no, because I like chubby sex but I never asked you to dinner.
Emma: Did you hear that?
Nancy: I only heard ca-ching, ca-ching.

Alan successfully defended Denny on the grounds that he was simply protecting himself from “catching” obesity, citing research…

Experiences with SharePoint

We are using SharePoint (MOSS 2007) as the collaborative platform for our professional development / innovation programs. Getting permission to use a platform outside the corporate firewall just isn’t realistic in this context where teams are developing new products, services and lines of business. And our clients are invested in SharePoint and want to see it successfully used. Often they see our programs as an opportunity to demonstrate the value of a collaborative platform and a way to test adoption strategies.

Last year we used SharePoint 2003 with a main…

Introduction to Learning 2.0

I highly recommend this introduction to Web 2.0 tools through 23 small exercises.

http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/

Making Blogs Work for Physician-Hospital Collaboration

Two years ago (while I was employed by The Otter Group) I worked with Ken Cohn, who is a general surgeon and a consultant at Cambridge Management Group, to create and manage a blog-based collaborative web site for a large hospital system. Ken invited me to co-author a chapter about that work in his recently published book, Collaborate for Success! Breakthrough Strategies for Engaging Physicians, Nurses, and Hospital Executives. Bill Ives also co-authored the chapter and recently published a review of the book (to view associated entry please click here)