So you think you have issues with adoption of social media and social networking technologies in your own stovepiped organization?
You should listen to this podcast:
All in Wiki
I received an email today from Penny Edwards, who is studying for an MBA. Penny is conducting a survey on wiki use in a business environment.
The best podcasts I’ve heard recently on enterprise adoption of social media are two interviews with Toby Redshaw of Motorola by Dan Bricklin. One is from March of 2006 and the other from March 2007.
WIkipedia Revisited (Again)
I've witnessed firtshand some of the editorial craziness surrounding Wikipedia. Frankly, I'm tired of the subject.
For those who are still awake to this topic and would welcome a wonderfully long and opinionated discussion of the issues swirling around Wikipedia, check out WIkipedia Revisited, by Walt Crawford, in the newsletter Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, Volume 7, Number 3.
Web 2.0 and the Manhattan Project
While listening to a podcast of a recent interview with Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, I was struck by the question, “What if the Manhattan Project had been conducted using the collaborative and social networking tools we now have?”
IBM’s “Building a New IP Marketplace” Report Promotes Openness in Patent Related Business Processes
Reading IBM’s Building a New IP Marketplace report, based on a wiki developed by several dozen international patent and technology experts during the Spring of 2006, helps explain why IBM recently announced it will be going public with its patent filings.
Perhaps one of the main drivers in IBM's decision to go public with the patent filling process is the acknowledgement that competitive advantage is generated not only by technological innovation but also by all the other ancillary systems and processes that must be orchestrated in bringing a new product or service to market.