Dream dreams Then write them Aye, but live them first Samuel Eliot Morison While in Boston recently I took the opportunity to walk through the Commonwealth Avenue Mall; a sublime 32 acre park designed with French boulevards in mind. Throughout the Mall lay several statues. Although I hadn’t a clue as to who Samuel Eliot Morison was, the quote above stuck with me as I strolled onward and eventually meandering enough to take in a Red Sox game. The relative success of Learning 2.0 & Enterprise 2.0 in your organization can be mapped back to this quotation. We all can dream the dream of a successful Learning 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 environment, and we all should be writing down what it looks like with appropriate benchmarking,
As day 3 of the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston comes to a close, I’m left with an empty feeling. I don’t belong. Not so much at the conference, per se, but in the spectrum of organizational ideologies. When I attend conferences, meetings, etc. that are Human Resources, Learning or Organizational Behaviour in nature … I stick out as the individual pushing the ‘culture of collaboration’ tenet through a need for more connected, collaborative and continuously federated technologies. I end up clashing with the ‘old way’ … in this case, the tried and true practices of how organizations were (or are) run. When I attend conferences, meetings, etc. that are more technology-focused (Enterprise 2.0 being one of a few) … I stick out as the
The title doesn’t sound very 2.0-esque, now does it? It’s dripping with irony. How can one ‘mandate’ something in a world whereby we’re striving to be flatter, more connected, less hierarchical and ostensibly more socially aware of our brethren? If I were a CEO, I’d mandate Enterprise 2.0 tools, technologies and most importantly ‘culture’ across the organization as quickly as I could. Intrinsically, it’s the right thing to do. For those that are looking for a little more proof, I present to you three studies/surveys (of many) that can help one in their understanding of why Enterprise 2.0 is so critical for the organization. One facet of Enterprise 2.0, of course, is social networks. The theory has been, the larger your network, the easier your
Regular readers know that I’m passionate about three key areas: leadership; learning & enterprise 2.0. As a lifelong educator, married to one as well, and possessing a young brood already immersed in a 2.0 world, we strongly believe in raising our children to be collaborative, transparent, honest and innovative. But, alas, I’ve recently developed petulance for one of the world’s finest creations … Facebook. Mr. Mark Zuckerberg has arguably founded one of the most collaborative and people connecting applications in recent history. According to CheckFacebook.com there are well over 450 million registered users worldwide. According to Google, Facebook now occupies the #1 visited website with 540 million unique visits in April, 2010 (after removing Google itself from the research). Aside from the recent Facebook privacy