Cisco believes that the collaboration market is in transition – that there are structural changes in the market that opens the door for Cisco to leverage its assets (voice, video, and networking) in ways that will enable it to take a leadership position. Formulates strategies, adjusts its own business model(s), and arrays resources to capitalize on market opportunities created by those shifts · The following is Part 1 of a series on today's announcement by Cisco . What is driving Cisco into the collaboration market?

Now social computing is not a strategy for “knowledge retention”, it just happens by default. Actually in my mind creating conditions and facilitating social computing, can do away with, not terms, but strategies , like “knowledge transfer”, which is only going to happen in an environment where the receiver is able to re-contextualise the signal by way of probing and clarifying. It too helps when both parties know each other well, flow Once again I have come across how it’s more important to cultivate conditions for knowledge creation and sharing over trying to manage knowledge or capture it a week before it walks out the door.

Robin asked me about the differences between communities and networks and this 3 minute recording captures my views. continue to be focused on the space between communities and networks, thinking that this is the sweet spot for so many things people are trying to do. Online Community Building Strategy: Nancy White On Networks, Groups and Technology Choices ...Tags: Last month in Rome Robin Good took me to a park, put me in a funny little bicycle car and we drove around the park recording our conversations. Nice

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In this article I focus on building your Twitter community — people who relate to your niche and who share some of your interests — people with whom you can network and who also extend your list in a more targeted way than previously outlined. Using the tools available to you, you can build a community of friends just as you would at social networking sites such as Facebook , MySpace or any of the Ning social networks. In List Building Using Twitter , I discussed the importance of list building and the ease of building a list using Twitter .

The Economist on social networking - world of connections This week,  The Economist, every Capatilist’s favourite magazine, has published a special report on on social networking . Introduction: A world of connections “Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play” What joy. A World of Connections , provides an excellent overview of the current state of social media for those still trying to get to grips with it.

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Last week at the InterAction Forum I had the pleasure of hearing Sam Graham-Felson , former director of blogging for the Obama Campaign talk about their strategy and success.  They employed about 80 staffers on the new media department, focusing on online content, outreach, and social networking.  also a firm believer that every organization, no matter how small, should have a full-time social Lots of what Sam talked about can be translated into useful tactics for small and large organizations who are building communities of people who care about their issues. First, let me

The topic of online community strategy is one of the things that occupies a large chunk of my mental cycles. How to Develop a Community Strategy Holistic Community Strategy Organizations are still challenged with setting strategy. I've written about a pretty basic process and framework a few times over the years, and I think the baseline concepts have held up well. You can read a couple of relatively recent posts here (I'd love to hear your thoughts):

Even though his social media journey has started out with Communities, this report covers a whole social media strategy, the strategy and approach can be used as a basis to cover any social media implementation. Strategy "…the framing of the problem (and the proposed solution) was seen as a matter of business strategy, and not the domain of a single function, such as IT or Marketing" A while back I posted on Chuck Hollis’s journey in introducing Communities of Practice to EMC. My previous post was a digest of what I think are the best