What is essential for facilitating adoption of weblogs in knowledge-intensive environments? Bloggers need tools to monitor the interest and reactions of others to their writing, which are often missing when weblog infrastructure is provided by an organisation. Think of blogging as a new tool for old tasks. 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. But what happens when you bring these tools into the constrained, policy-driven, risk-averse world of the corporate intranet where the user population is small, where expressing

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. And this is so true for enterprise wide tools such as social networks, microblogging, blogosphere, etc.. 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. But what happens when you bring these tools into the constrained, policy-driven, risk-averse world of the corporate intranet where the user population is small, where expressing

tools and mobile technology to break news, to engage with audiences and tell the story behind the headlines in multiple media and on multiple platforms. 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

By looking at orientations, we posit, you are in a better position to understand how to support them with tools and processes. Nancy point’s to a post by Shawn Callahan , on how he uses the spidergram for a present and future assessment and aspiration tool. What I like about this is you could use the spidergram to list the current orientation of the group, and then overlay the same spidergram of where they hope to be with the enablement of an online 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

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aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization A lot of one uses 'Groupware' tools (like Now, we have a host of new tools available, called variously Web 2.0, KM social networking tools, social media and social software. BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Implementing Web 2.0 (aka

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. And people already have a collaboration tool: Email. tools like blogs, wikis, social networking, RSS feeds, etc.? The National Computing Centre in the U.K. has posted an interesting article by Martin White on Achieving effective Enterprise 2.0