What is essential for facilitating adoption of weblogs in knowledge-intensive environments? Tags: blogs in business , PhD , technology adoption Integration Weblog research blogs in business PhD technology adoptio Promised to blog this piece from the dissertation in February (together with What pragmatists might want to know about blogging ), but wasn’t happy with it. Still not happy, but here it is (in a slightly updated form). ***

adoption case study (I wrote the below article as a case study of BT’s experiences to date with the adoption of social media tools - it was published in the November 07 edition of Employee Engagement Today magazine) Taking the ‘social’ out of social media   The power of social software is undeniable in the free, anarchic world of the global internet. The fact that individuals could manage all this functionality through a single ‘portal’ was incredibly powerful and sent adoption rates through the roof. Inside out A view from deep inside the intestines of a global company Blog About My articles New BT social media case study (12/09/08) BT Web 2.0

This is not a post about social computing deploying/piloting/adoption in general. may cover these posts at a later date, as my post today is more on adoption or participation at the group level. Following on from my post on workshopping and piloting a new community are the adoption factors a facilitator can massage to get participation off the ground. All these are applicable on many levels eg. a

adoption case study (I wrote the below article as a case study of BT’s experiences to date with the adoption of social media tools - it was published in the November 07 edition of Employee Engagement Today magazine) Taking the ‘social’ out of social media   The power of social software is undeniable in the free, anarchic world of the global internet. The fact that individuals could manage all this functionality through a single ‘portal’ was incredibly powerful and sent adoption rates through the roof. Inside out A view from deep inside the intestines of a global company Blog About My articles New BT social media case study (12/09/08) BT Web 2.0

Nice to see the idea cross the ocean Recent Trackbacks Just Another Meme Vector : BeeBCamp2 - The Morning After Just Another Meme Vector : BeeBCamp2 - The Morning After Just Another Meme Vector : BeeBCamp2 - The Morning After Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director : UGC: an ugly word for a beautiful thing - but what is it and what to do with it? Jason Kristufek’s We Media blog : One weekend, three NewsInnovation barcamps Categories Adoption

Adoption health check I was thinking a spidergram could be used for an adoption diagnostic or health check for communities in the growth stage. The fact that some people are becoming known as subject matter experts is a real positive thing, and illustrates that the community is being adopted and recognised. Taxonomies > Sensemaking > Adoption Nancy White has been generous to share a section out of a chapter of her co-authored (Etienne Wenger and John. D

Behind my PhD research is an interest in translating practices of early adopters of weblogs into something that those that come after them might use: an understanding of relative advantage of blogging in knowledge-intensive environments and it’s compatibility with existing practices. There is also a piece on facilitating weblog adoption, probably tomorrow] Below is another piece from the final chapter of my dissertation, the one where I draw the implications of my findings for an individual knowledge worker, a pragmatist, who wants to know what blogging might bring for him in order to decide if it is worth the effort. [There

adoption . The center of the article is a list, developed by INSEAD's Morton Hansen , of 10 statements to diagnose an organization's readiness to adopt Enterprise 2.0. adoptio The National Computing Centre in the U.K. has posted an interesting article by Martin White on Achieving effective Enterprise 2.0 It includes things like: -Employees feel that

Tags: learning_triangulation adoption online_communit What’s important now, as I see it, is triangulation. I’m m certainly not the first to mention this, but as it’s still poorly understood it warrants mentioning. The concept is simple: a single pointer to a new technology, service or whatever – even from a trusted source – is likely to have minimal impact, particularly

The "fun theory" to behavior change. A couple of thoughts: - was the change one-off, or was it long lasting. Eg, did the people on day 2 (or 3, or 4, or 5), revert to the escalator? - how do we apply this to collaboration tools?