Is it finally time to listen?
The other week was the Enterprise 2.0 conference, typically highly hyped and loud this year I almost missed it since it seemed a lot more subdued than normal. However, I have to say reading this post by Susan kind of reminds me of the whole “Lightblub going off”.
“Yes, the baby was born in ‘06, started crawling in ‘07, and now is running around like a maniac with boundless energy in ‘09. The Enterprise 2.0 movement is now a healthy child, growing stronger and more willful every day (just a cabinet door away from getting into trouble…) I returned from the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week rejuvenated, as I’d hoped to. The number UNO issue on the minds of this year’s customer conference attendees was: HOW THE »» DO WE DO THIS??? Customers wanted to hear from other customers, not us (the so-called experts in Enterprise 2.0). The best sessions for me were definitely the unconference sessions where real practitioners could talk frankly about their challenges and share their successes.”
— ITSinsider | What (2006), Why (2007), now How (2009) for Enterprise 2.0 Being one of those “customers” as well as one of those “other” people it’s been a conflict at best when I talk about these concepts and methods associated with this strange new world we live in. So seeing this post was one of those moments when you realize that their is meat behind the hype and hope that the Enterprise will finally start to progress forward. Looks like I’m not alone as in a new post today Susan shares some of those who have already signed on board.
“Within 24 hours, the 2.0 Adoption Council has amassed an impressive showing of large enterprises who are wrestling with adoption issues for 2.0 tools and practices.”
— SoCo Partners | The 2.0 Adoption Council Hits a Chord… Nor does it seem that I am misunderstood
I’ve decided the time is right to launch a community for “Internal 2.0 Evangelists.” As I’ve been a 2.0 Evangelist for the broader sector (and I thought my job was difficult), I realized the job of the internal evangelist is far, far more difficult. These folks toggle between fighting the good fight every day and then slipping uneasily into a sort of DMZ where they can peek out into the broader community for support and the rejuvenation they need to go on fighting another day. It’s often a thankless job with no clear roadmap for advancement, yet the majority of them do it because they believe in the principles of the 2.0 movement. I celebrate them!
Since joining SAP back in 2005 I’ve been working the “skunk works” and installing OSS software packages that helped make my job and those around me both easier as well as more efficient knowing the whole time that I was not alone yet not knowing who else was out there. I know now…
me and craig (via dahowlett)
Dennis asked how easy something like that was so 20 mins later…
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: the fate of all life on Earth will be determined by what we do over the next decade to preserve the planet’s health and biodiversity. Halting and reversing the degradation of our planet’s natural environment is one of the most pressing and important concerns facing the world, and the WWF is at the forefront of that issue.How WWF is Using Social Media for Good #FindingTheGood
Green, can you?
Last Friday on the Friday Morning Report I decided to push out a little challenge to everyone.
Next Friday July 3, 2009 there will be no live show instead FMR challenges all viewers to go into their gardens, neighbor, work place, home or where ever and “plant” something - plant a tree, flowers, something and capture what you do on video or with photos to share with the FMR crowd - if you like add your plant to the map as well and be sure if you talk about it or post content use the tag #fmrplant
via Friday Morning Report » Blog Archive » 6 Minutes of Fame
Many of my reasons behind this go back to things like the 24 Hour Marathon, I believe that each of us should take a few minutes each month, week or day to do our part to make the world a little bit better. Be sure to grab your camera or video camera and capture your efforts to make the world a better place! Remember it doesn’t have to be in the ground but it can be a pot on your desk or table as well!
So my question to each of you, are you up to this? Can you do it? We’ve been planting and gardening for several weeks now but we also have something ready to go for Friday for this purpose as well!
I can’t remember the last time a video went straight to the core of my being like this one did!
Earlier on Mike Wesch shared this particular tweet in Twitter: “Digital Ethnography class project of @kzhines is going viral. 100,000+ views and counting. Congrats Katie! http://is.gd/13xVk“… And all I can say is WATCH IT! It will make you shiver in awesomeness!
Via: elsua's clippings
Wondering about choices made
Yesterday the SAP Community Network launched their new concept for the use of a wiki environment (disclaimer - I launched it) and it’s been met so far with mixed feedback. Now I was the primary driver behind the concept and it was something we spent almost two full years talking about and discussing (debating or arguing might be better words) and yet we still don’t know if it’s the right move or not. I launched the “official” announcement yesterday and I followed up with something a bit more personal today, I decided to take that and post it here as well because I truly do want as much feedback as possible from both inside our environment and from outside. I created a short video with my thoughts and added some text…
There you have it a short 13 minute video of me describing the past two years or so working on this project. Thinking back to when Scott Jones and I discussed/debated and worked through the concept (to put it on paper) while I drove him from Walldorf to the Frankfurt Airport and how we continued inside the airport as well. To discussions with SAP Mentors, Top Contributors and others and how they challenged the foundation of the idea and how we evolved it or at least different aspects of it over the course of the pilot and prototype stages.
The project itself was easy to implement the challenge of course was the theory behind it, it was one of the most interesting and challenging projects I’ve worked on because there is no clear defined answer to this topic, it’s a matter of use and how people view it. Yesterday I got one piece of feedback via Twitter which was expected but it does force one to “rethink” - is this approach right?
“Honestly, it does not seem like a wiki to me. Too much control is not collaboration. Not bottom up, organic, community oriented…”
I received a phone call,
“Thank you, we were getting tired of having to move content out of our space to other locations where it was a better fit!”
and
“Does this mean I won’t have to worry about someone erasing the pages and replacing it with a question anymore that should go in the forums?”
an IM came in,
“but I was working with a whole new group of people to fill out a new wiki space, now what?”
For that one I had a quick response, and that was - ping me who they are and we’ll add them! This concept is not meant to keep people out it’s meant to highlight and focus on quality content and those dedicated to creating it!
All in all we are going to be watching how this progresses over the course of the next few weeks and see if we need to either fine tune, leave alone or roll back. Keep that feedback coming please!!!
