Sep 26

Sep 26 Getting Real about Social Networking Adoption

Associations, Change, Facebook, , , , Strategic Planning, Technology, Web 2.0, communications

Professional networking guru Scott Allen left a thoughtful comment on my blog post Network Unto Others As You Would Have Others Network Unto You a couple of days ago. He noted that people don’t share the same personal and professional networking priorities.

Aug 15

Aug 15 What Social Media Adoption Model Are You Following?

Dennis D. McDonald

Adoption, Change, Innovation, ,

We’re beginning to see more social media and networking case studies and discussions of “best practices.” Maybe this is evidence of a classic adoption curve.

Aug 13
Aug 13 Facebook: Beware the Rocking Chair Factor

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Change, Demographics, Facebook, , , Web 2.0

My good friend Jeremiah Owyang, with whom I wrote an article in early 2006 that is STILL regularly among my weekly top ten posts (this past week it was number one), has written Web Strategy: What the Web Strategist should know about Facebook

Aug 8
Aug 8 U.S. Intelligence Community Adopts Social Media and Networking

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Change, Intelligence, Security, Wiki

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:

May 29
May 29 Penny Edwards' Survey of Business Wiki Management Practices

Dennis D. McDonald

Change, Management Tools, 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.

May 7

May 7 Five Factors That Influence Successful Corporate Adoption of Internal Social Media and Web 2.0 Initiatives

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Bookmarks, Change, Collaboration, Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, , , Tagging, Web 2.0

While tracking adoption of “web 2.0” applications such as internal blogs, wikis, and social book marking systems by large organizations, I’m seeing a couple of factors emerging that, anecdotally at least, appear to be associated with successful adoption.

Apr 24
Apr 24 Web Site (Mis) Management: Are Things Getting Better?

Dennis D. McDonald

Best Practices, Change, Enterprise 2.0, Governance, , Technology, Web 2.0

Lisa Welchman in Why I’m Disgusted with Web Teams on The Gilbane Group Blog has a great rant about corporate web site mismanagement (or lack of management, basically the same thing). Here's a quote:

Apr 16

Apr 16 On Balance, Web 2.0 Is Bigger than Corporate I.T.

Dennis D. McDonald

Change, Enterprise 2.0, Governance, Web 2.0

On April 12, John Milan, in Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0's Future All Depends On IT's Future, discussed recent research reports from Forrester and The Leading Edge Forum. The reports address corporate adoption of "web 2.0" technologies.

Mar 7
Mar 7 Avoiding the "Web 3.0" Label

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Change, Definitions, Enterprise 2.0, Industry Analysis, ,

I received a request from Donna Vitasovich for a definition of “web 2.0 and web 3.0” that she could quote on her blog. I referred her to my post Using a Blog for a “Web 2.0” Presentation instead of PowerPoint. That post includes a definition of Web 2.0 that distinguishes between “Web 2.0 as Technology Infrastructure” and “Web 2.0 as Communication and Business Process.” Here’s what I wrote:

Nov 21

Nov 21 Is Innovation Management a Process or a Project?

Dennis D. McDonald

Collaboration, Innovation, Project Management, Change Management, Process, Change

I've been thinking about innovation management recently in connection with some consulting projects. The question I've been considering is how to best manage the innovation process that surrounds adopting various social networking and collaboration tools. One can view the adoption of such tools as an innovation.