Saturday morning post-lift *blink* *blink* what now?

train
On a train again. To Lausanne with no ticket. Mountains on one side and lake Geneva on the other and in the middle my exploded mind. The fare collector is on her way down the isle, how do I explain to her there was time only to only one of buy a ticket or catch the train. Swiss timing it wouldn’t be late. I caught the train.

Some of you have been following lift on the back channel. It’s hard to explain the feeling right now, now that it’s over. The feeling lke 500 of us, our minds and passions for the world, tech, newmediums, digital-social ecologies and commerce and change hurled around the superconducting track a smashed into a shower of leptons, hadrons

It’s going to take a while to even parse all the data, the inspiration from this conference.

francesca’s early morning feeling:

The ends of these conferences always leave me waffling a little. The convergence of intelligence, passion and curiosity suddenly disappears from your immediate environment, and it is a little like being dropped off on a windblown street corner of a snowy Canada and pondering what next steps to take.

And yes, it turns out you can buy tickets on the train.

And the party seems is not done yet. As Lifters in 1s and 4s and 8s spontaneously descend on Lausanne. [great video hennriette!]

Thank’s Stephanie for your awesome Lausanne hostatiousness! the spirit continues.

but most of all. thank you Laurent for LIFT07.

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Implementing Mass Collaboration in Enterprise

It’s great to hear additional perspectives on the implementation of Enterprise 2.0. We’re at early stages of this movement. Many are those who will tell you they are inspired or many will tell you they can sell you the answer. Which is why it’s great to hear real case studies grounded in results from the field. Here are my notes on Stephane Cheikh’s talk on implementing enterprise collaboration at SITA in Geneva.

How to Get Started
1. engage with a small team that expressed the need
2. document needs
3. choose 2 products, simple is key
4. demo both
5. team use both
6. reconvene for feedback
7. decide on 1 tool
8. rollout

IT or not IT?
– controversial but really, you don’t need them
– power to the user, ASP models
– cons of IT delays, complexity, not meeting user req’s deployment issues, no moderation

[Echo’s other feedback start with pilot projects seems to be a main theme we are hearing]

Engage w/ sm team
Understand pain points
Identify key document process
Innovate around that
Promote – recognize leaders


key lessons:

start small
when you do your demo try to customize as much as possitble user needs (and expected benefits/ what’s in it for me? (the user/audience)
train your users, and train again
use the tools
moderate, maintain the first 4 to 6 weeks (the critical period for them to see value)
make sure managers of teams are using the tools
once started look for other process or users to bring in

It is a full time job for someone to implement enterprise collaboration
you will need:
-patience
-hand holding
-lobbying
-politics
-psycology

Enterprise Collaboration is not [just] a technology but human behavor project
uptake is slow but the reward is high

understand the process of your particular context. understand the current processes no matter how crazy. you are trying to “Pave the mad-cow path”

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Live from LIFT07

lift07

At Lift07 and my mind is singing. Day One is just coming to an end but here is a picture from the very first moment.

To follow along:

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