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MindTouch Delivers Knowledge Base for Salesforce Customers

October 1, 2012

Business

Aaron Fulkerson, Customer relationship management, customer service, enterprise 2.0, MindTouch, salesforce, Salesforce.com, San Diego

MindTouch is one of the early leaders in the Enterprise 2.0 space –their CEO, Aaron Fulkerson was a regular attendee on the conference circuit. Over the last couple of years however, MindTouch has gone pretty silent as market conditions…

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Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That

September 24, 2012

Business

Apigee, Application programming interface, Bechtel, Business, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, Steven Willmott

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

May 22, 2011

Business

chatter, enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social network, Toyota, yammer

News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to…

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Enterprise 2.0–It’s Not Just an Upsized Consumer Offering

January 5, 2011

Aaron Roe Fulkerson, enterprise processes, enterprise tools, People and Processes, social business, Solutions, Strategies

adoption, enterprise 2.0

Ever since the term Enterprise 2.0 was coined, commentators have struggled to not only define it, but to also find good examples of its success. One of the reasons for the disconnect between the theory and the practice is a focus by those who strive for an easily understood definition, on explaining Enterprise 2.0 as “Facebook for the Enterprise”.

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On Motivation, and What Really Drives Us

December 17, 2010

Dan Pink, MIT, Motivation, People and Processes

adoption, enterprise 2.0, productivity

We’ve been told for years that incentivizing employees is the secret to better performance.

A great talk given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) questions the assumption that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want and, the corollary, that if you punish something, you get less of the behavior.

Dan Pink refers to a study at MIT which was funded by the Federal Reserve. In this study, a whole group of students were given a set of challenges – physical, cognitive, and spatial. Performance was incentivized via monetary reward in an approach typical of most workplaces. So what happened?

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The Unintended Consequences of the Modern World…

November 28, 2010

Challenges, enterprise challenges, future of enterprise, modern work life, People and Processes, work life balance

enterprise 2.0

The organization of the future will be organic — it will readily change to the specific situation it finds itself in at any one time. Collaborative teams will form on a project-specific basis, coming together to leverage symbiotic skills and move on when the project is complete. Physical workplaces will also look different – with workers coming and going in a flexible manner, and skilled individuals working across multiple organizations and multiple projects.

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Walking the Walk with Enterprise Collaboration?AKQA goes 21st Century

November 11, 2010

Business

AKQA, enterprise 2.0

Image via Wikipedia We often hear from hand-waving enterprise 2.0 advocates who tell about adoption of E20 tools within their workplace. Often however this adoption is a thin veneer that doesn?t extend significantly beyond the usual early adopter suspects.…

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Distracting the Enterprise at Defrag

November 9, 2010

Defrag 2010, Esther Dyson, Events, JP Rangaswami, Paul Kedrosky, Stowe Boyd

enterprise 2.0

Anyone who has been around computing for more than a decade will fondly remember back when the more anally retentive among us used to religiously defrag our hard drives. Defragging was a process that reduced fragmentation, freed up space, and generally made our hard drives more efficient. It was something we did to make the […]

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PBworks Launches Its Agency Edition

November 9, 2010

Business

Chris Yeh, Collaborative software, enterprise 2.0, PBworks

PBWorks is today launching another custom edition of its enterprise collaboration software. The Agency Edition is a customization of the standard PBworks product, this time specifically tailored for advertising, PR, marketing and design agencies. PBworks’ Chris Yeh told me…

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SocialText on Barriers to Adoption, and Why Consultants Miss the Point

November 8, 2010

Business

enterprise 2.0, Microsoft SharePoint, Ross Mayfield, Salesforce Chatter, SharePoint, SocialText, wordpress

I spent some time last week talking to Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText and very much a luminary in the Enterprise 2.0 space. The reason for the call was to get an advance briefing about SocialText’s latest product release,…

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