Enterprise 2.0

Yesterday I covered the second element in the 4Cs approach to applying enterprise 2.0 to your business. Today I’ll focus on the third, collaboration.
Day Three: Collaboration
One of the biggest areas of contention is the difference between cooperation and collaboration. Put very simply, collaborative social software supports the engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to [...]

Yesterday I introduced the 4Cs model for applying enterprise 2.0 in any business and outlined the elements that make up the first C - communication.
Today it’s the turn of the second, cooperation (or co-operation, if you prefer).
Day Two: Cooperation
With cooperation I am interested in social software that supports informal working where there are no pre-defined [...]

Well, the book was officially published yesterday. So I’d thought I do something different this week.
Starting today I’m going to introduce the model for how to apply enterprise 2.0 concepts that forms the nucleus of the book. On Friday, I’ll sum up and leave you with some further thoughts.
Introducing the 4Cs
Andrew McAfee’s SLATES and Dion [...]

Howard Greenstein loves John Smith’s definition of social software:
“Social software is software that is no fun to experiment with by yourself.”
Not sure I agree. Joshua Porter’s ‘Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them’ springs to mind. He said that “strong social sites build value one user at a time”. In [...]