Web 2.0 - Why isn’t LinkedIn mentioned as a research tool?

Imho professionals should fist learn how to use Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 to make more money in the short term, as this is more tangible and can create more sense of urgency. Only then it will become more easy to use Enterprise 2.0 for internal purposes, that will eventually need more patience as organizations are just usually slow to adopt and support new initiatives.

Cultural differences #2 - Having fun in US part one

I always have fun in the US, so much to do, so much to eat, so much to see …

Cultural differences # 1 - Doing business in Germany

Maybe it’s because the conditions of cheap transportation, food and drinks allow the Germans to have more real social contacts and have less time for online contacts. If that’s the case imho many of us should visit Germany more …

Enterprise 2.0: mature business communities can control itself #2

Enjoy the blogs of your colleagues and do not fear the honesty, but rather try to understand what your colleagues are saying and figure out what you need to do to really fix the underlying issue.

IT managers - let the Web 2.0 help you to make faster decisions and save money on POC’s and long investigations

IT manager; let developers and architects from all over the world help you …

I would rather have cultural differences!

Willing people of different cultures, who want to have success together, can be more open towards each other as the lack of similar background brings up the necessity of communication. Working and living in multi cultural environments can really boost up social and communication skills.

Even Deloitte was inpired by me :)

Some time ago to fill in the ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50 CEO Survey‘. The survey tells how CEO’s think about the success of their company. As I was inspired by the results, the feeling was probably mutual as I clearly put a stamp on their research.

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Enterprise 2.0 helps to manage, but managers should lead by example!

So Enterprise, if the man or women who is leading your Enterprise 2.0 strategy doesn’t blog, only uses LinkedIn for their profile and network and doesn’t have a profile on Facebook (or any local community), then it’s time to reconsider the position

I feel like Charlie (an Enterprise 2.0 guy)

Yesterday afternoon / evening it was time to have fun with Enterprise 2.0 at a great location, the Playing Circle in Amsterdam. I gave some presentation to partners, clients and colleagues about how Componence sees Enterprise 2.0 and how we believe that Portal frameworks are the destinated frameworks for it. And of course I [...]

Enterprise 2.0: mature business communities can control itself

Every day I check the changes on the wiki of Componence to see what my team members added to our corporate knowledge base. And last week it finally happened; a post was made that made doubt whether Web 2.0 concepts like wiki were really that good.
The post was ‘What is the goal of Componence?’ and [...]