enterprise2.0
How to be a CIO in a 2.0 world
This morning I had the pleasure to be the guest pundit at the breakfast meeting of the Toronto CIO organization. The question of the day was to embrace social media tools within the IT structure of traditional large enterprise and how to attract and retain talent amongst the younger and net-savvy generation. In their words: [...]
Asking CIOs the wrong questions about Enterprise 2.0
Why aren’t corporate CIO’s flocking to blogs, wikis and other social tools as fast as you’d think? Nearly two thirds of CIO’s in a recent survey responded that they have no plans to introduce “blogs” or “wikis”. And (cough) “virtual worlds” scored even lower. ITWorld Canada interviewed me the other day on this [...]
Enterprise 2.0, two years in
About 2 years ago I started to think and work on an idea called Enterprise2.0. It felt to me at the time that changes that were just beginning to change the consumer internet at the time were really only the cusp of something bigger. That the more human, coperative and cloud based tools of “social” [...]
Trouble at the Video Store Part 2
My last post [Trouble at the video store] seemed to have caused a bit of an “OMG I Know” stir in the comments.
Here is the other shoe.
Clearly the video rental model, like that of the CD store is well known, even by it’s owners, as obsolesced industry coasting through it’s sunset years. Despite [...]
It’s time to take “social” for granted
I would like to declare the social web officially invented already. Hoozah! It was a good, it was fun, like any tech boom, it made it’s share of wiz kids very successful and created a lot of value for the rest of us along the way too. Disastrous timesinks like Icanhascheezburger and Scrabulous not withstanding. [...]
FastForward is underway
Fast’s annual FastForward conference is underway, in theory this is about search, but the conference has become somewhat of a mecca for Enterprise2.0 thinkers. Among the luminaries, Toronto’s own Jevon and Sandy, and Tapscott are on the scene, and there is some excellent ongoing coverage on the always busy ff blog.
LIFT08 Notes: Genevieve Bell, Intel, do our digital worlds require secrets and (white) lies?
Genevieve is an ethnographer looking at digital culture and the necessity of “lying”
45%5 of mobile users have lied about wherabouts in sms
100% of online daters lie about height or weight
James Katz says entering arms race of digital deception she locked herself out of flickr because she lied about her age and forgot which [...]
Aiim Enterprise 2.0 Survey
Dan writes:
Thomas – twitter led me here a few days ago, and occurred to me that you (and your readers) might lend a hand in our Enterprise 2.0 survey, freshly launched earlier today!
Nearly 100 responses so far, but we can always use more data. Survey closes Friday January 18th, 2008. 67 questions, roughly 30 minutes, [...]
This Just In: This Enterprise2.0 thing could be big
Enterprise 2.0 as the new IT industry cover girl:
Note for an alternative perspective, you should also be reading: Enterprise 2.0: Where the f$#@ is my market?
Paging Ziff Davis, welcome to the conversation, we’ve found your next centerfold.
Google, changing of EnterpriseIT and I over at ITWorld
Had an interesting chat with Kathleen Lau at ItWorld Canada on Googles recent moves into the enterprise and the changing roll of IT in general. Here’s what I had to say:
There is an overall trend where employees are starting to either create or bring their own IT into the enterprise, said Tom Purves, co-founder of [...]
The Case for Enterprise 2.0 Made Clear
A great catch by Bryce of a brilliantly deck on slide share hammering home the huge gap between the power of social media in the personal/consumer space vs in the enterprise/business world.
Of course it’s a lot easier to implement social media in the public/personal realm where confidentiality, key controls, petty office politics can be [...]
Guilds as a model for new (un)organizational behaviour
Michele Perras has a great article up on her blog about the emergent signal of tech-and-media-enabled communities and how they do and don’t echo a very old form of organization of professionals guilds.
looking at the innumerable communities that have emerged and exploded, in large part due to what people are doing with web/mobile technology, over [...]
The Robotification of Usability Design
1998-2000 Human to web interaction, Web Usability, Human factors. The great bubble of Web-enabling networked databases and applications – like Online Banking, Amazon.com, lets sell pet food online etc. (eBay never heard of usability)
2001-2005 Website to robot interaction design, the golden age of Search Engine Optimization
2004-2006 Human to Human and social web interaction, funny how [...]
The Tricks and Challenges of Social Computing in the Office
Great set of notes (thanks Stephanie!) on Suw Charman’s recent talk at google (been meaning to link to this for a while) on the tricky art of introducing social software to the office.
“Low-level fear of social humiliation. How are they going to come across to their peers and bosses? Fear of making mistake. People don’t [...]
The office as occupied territory, and three rules for collaboration
Jevon today had an entertaining riff on positive vs pejorative connotations of “collaboration”.
However you look at it, whether it’s collaborating with the occupying regime or subversive collaboration among La Résistance (so to speak), I would argue that effective collaboration in an organization requires 3 things:
Opportunities to collaborate.
Are your people finding where they are [...]
One last definition of Enterprise 2.0 (pic)
illustration by Dan Perjovschi
Walkah on ID and the Implications of the Facebook Tidal Wave
Facebook continues to steamrolelr it’s way to becoming the defacto OS of the social web. With their new launch of applications, facebook is finally opening the door to federate all of our social identities under their umbrella. And it lets us developers build all manner of new social applications – without having to bother with [...]
Voip (finally?) Getting Interesting
According to this piece at the inq Intel has a crack at computer telephony by way of the WSJ, Intel (of all people) is looking to finally deliver on the promise of voip.
Voip for a long time has followed the all too common path of disruptive path of not really disrupting anything at [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology designer, futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of Toronto. Thomas not currently available for hire (though you are always welcome to try).
