May
08
A few snippets of Clay Shirky’s last book, “Here Comes Everybody”. and which relate to Enterprise 2.0:
- When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
- [The value of hierarchies] is obvious- it vastly simplifies communication among the employees. (…) If you have ever wondered why so much of what workers in large organizations know has been shielded from the CEO and vice-versa, wonder no longer: the idea of limiting communications, so that they flow only from one layer of the hierarchy to the next, was part of the very design of the system at the dawn of managerial culture.
- (…) any forum of public expression is dangerous, because no matter how innocuous the original form form of organization is, if the state is seen to tolerate it, it can become a forum for more focused discontent.
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Written by Martin R. Dugage
Enterprise 2.0, Management, Mobility, Personal Branding, WOW world of work
Apr
19
Using Twitter
This little mindmap found on applicant through Twine summarizes all the various usages of Twitter in a business setting.
Full size image here.
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Written by Martin R. Dugage
Uncategorized, WOW world of work
Mar
15
Through @timoreilly on twitter – I think – I discovered this presentation by Clay Shirky on his latest book “Here Comes Everybody”. Clay makes the same point as in my book, namely that people gather on the web to share, then to enter conversation, then to collaborate, and finally and hopefully coordinated action. But what he says and is new to me – had I known that before, I would have been more cautious – is that groups are natively conservative, which explains why we have such a hard time introducting 21st century collaboration in companies.
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Written by Martin R. Dugage
Uncategorized, WOW world of work
Nov
09
This video by Mark Bennett is really excellent to explain in simple terms how a community of practice works, how technology can make it global, and how it contributes to the global integration of a company
“… [through communities of practice] we come closer to being one Rio Tinto, all over the world.”
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Written by Martin R. Dugage
Management, WOW world of work
Oct
26
In a conversation launched a month ago by Andrew McAfee in this post, and continued last week through this post, there was a lot of buzz on whether it was a good idea or not to measure E2.0 participation of knowledge workers. I tend to agree with Andrew McAfee that measuring E2.0 activities would “encourage and increase participation and contributions”. And I think we are looking at a major change opportunity.
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Written by Luis Alberola
Enterprise 2.0, Talent Management Uncategorized, WOW world of work
