Social Networks

eMail is Dead, Long Live Social Networking: Don’t Get Left Behind

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

via Fred Wilson – a stunning slide from Morgan Stanley’s recent Internet Trends report:
The primary topic of the report is the growth and future prospects of the mobile internet – reason enough read through all 87 slides. However, I am slightly amazed by the fact that eMail runs second to the relatively new phenomenon of [...]

Collaboration "in the Wild": Some Observations

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

An Enterprise 2.0 dream scenario: implementing a complex project across multiple sites, in two different time zones, with a large team (well over 100). The team was reasonably savvy with collaboration tools; core team members were quite comfortable with Instant Messaging, and we have been relying on SharePoint for many months. A centralized, coordinated document [...]

Underwhelming experiences with Google Wave

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ October 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Took some time today to work with the new communication meme – Google Wave. I wouldn’t call it a fundamentally new way to communicate – well, not yet. I think Google is safe to continue with a “preview” label – clearly not even “beta” yet. No horrible bugs – at least on the Windows platform [...]

Real Business Users and SharePoint

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Introducing buzzword-compliant technology like a wiki, or integrated collaboration spaces like SharePoint, will typically go well with a motivated audience like your internal IT department. But if you really want to understand how this stuff works, try it with “real people” – line employees in sales and marketing, operations, and finance.Sure, you’ve heard complaints from [...]

Business Benefits of Social Networks Exist, but …

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When I see / read articles like this, or hear the breathless claims of vendors, pundits, and True Believers, I’ll privately chuckle to myself. All of this stuff – social networking, collaboration, and innovation – are 21st century takes on good old Knowledge Management (KM), circa 1998. Do these sound like presentations from your recent [...]

Field Notes: Lean Times for IT Services

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I know it’s lean times in IT, and product / services vendors are all beating the bushes. Some interesting patterns have emerged over the last few months …
My Boss Is In Town: This is far and away the #1 meme / structure of incoming cold calls; I get a (very) brief synopsis of services/value add, [...]

Enterprise 2.1: Exiting the Trough of Disillusionment

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

“What will you do with that car if you actually catch it?”
– what the cat asked the dog (from the Chicago Reader, circa 1989)
So you’ve gone all “Enterprise 2.0″, spinning up a wiki, a blog, and a SharePoint or Drupal server inside your firewall. Now what happens?
The groundswell of interest in “cool tools” brings a [...]

Branching Out: Writing for the FEI Blog

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Yet another interesting way that the Internet has broadened my connections and collaborations …
After connecting over LinkedIn and exchanging common interests via e-mail and blog post, the fine folks over at The Front End of Innovation blog asked me to do some posting there as well. They have a different posting style – shorter, a [...]

Anthropology of LinkedIn Answers: Five Days of Posts

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I have seven RSS feeds from LinkedIn Answers in my blogroll for a few months now. I’ll answer a question every once in a while, haven’t posted one yet, maybe some day. As I scan these questions, I can see this social network exhibiting multiple personalities, interesting patterns.
So this week, I let my blog [...]

My Networking CV (or, What’s In It For Me?)

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ January 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

As social networking sites proliferate and mature, we’re all learning how to use these interesting new resources. True, it is just a modern take on “professional networking” – purposeful connections with different special interest groups, to share ideas and lay the foundation for current or future “opportunities”.
I’m involved with a couple of organizations like [...]

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