Conference in Paris and Web Mission 09 in San Francisco taking up much of our time and space on the blog. Their use of social media is a great case study of how you can use a number of simple tools to engage your stakeholders and how providing a range of ways to engage you can reach different people.  Part of its purpose is, undoubtedly, to open up policy making and the UK governement sponsorship is a sign of this,  but as a service to those working It is a couple of weeks since our last set of online community examples , with trips to the Marketing 2.0 But we’re

Engineers without Fears Tuesday, April 15, 2008 collaboration tools: stags Ive been thinking about different collaboration tools for various groups recently and I was pondering on some of the different factors you need to consider and I came up with this (click to enlarge) : Lets take each of these in turn: Size - One thing to consider are the numbers of people who will be collaborating. Im sure that you could come up with more. Posted by Matt Moore at 9:51 PM Labels: collaboration , stags , tools

Engineers without Fears Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Collaboration tools James Robertson has been thinking about collaboration tools. So here are the phases and my responses to them: Phase 0: Fragmentation As the usage of collaboration tools grows in an unmanaged and unconsidered way, so does the "fragmentation" of information. Phase 1: Gardening The starting point is to identify Which is interesting because I have as well. As ever, James is practical & clear in his thinking and suggests a 5 phase model (0-4) for organisations thinking about collaboration.

Five us from Forum One are traveling to San Francisco April 26-28 for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference . This Day of Service , Sunday, April 26: Jo, Andrew, Kurt, and Sophie will help install a wireless network at a San Francisco low-income housing project. Flickr Photosharing Bootcamp , Sunday, April 26: Micheala is teaching a session on Flickr and related tools. This is my fifth visit to this conference, and it gets more valuable each year. Nearly 1,500 of the smartest, innovative, and passionate nonprofit technolology practitioners are

Such organizational dynamics will influence how people participate and contribute with social tools (e.g., "Enterprise Risk-Averse Workers, Jittery and Compliant Mitchell Lee Marks , who teaches at the College of Business at San Francisco State University, is the author of “Charging Back Up the Hill: Workplace Recovery after Mergers, Acquisitions, and Downsizings.” How Will the Overpraised Generation Fare? Jean Twenge , an associate Interesting article from NYTimes.com (excerpts below). Enterprise 2.0").

Expo in San Francisco, to be more precise) where she talks about that same topic: how crucial social capital has become nowadays with the emergence of social software . Expo , San Francisco , w2e , w2e09 , Trust , Business Relationships , Personal Relationships , Knowledge Workers , Fun @ Work , fun@work , Adoption , Ownership , Sense of Belonging , Loyalty , Customers , Clients , Online Communities ...Tags: Have you ever heard about the concept of social capital ? In other

Adoption Prediction Market made news at the recent San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 Facilitation Industry change Innovation Knowledge Facilitation Organizational Performance Social Tools Trend A small and really smart group of people convened by John Maloney Maloney (at the Gleacher Executive Center in Chicago), on November 6 to explore

As you watch and listen, think about participatory cultures, participatory media, social networking, and to some extent, the enabling social tools. Perhaps Mark Pesce should be considered as a keynote speaker at the San Francisco version of the Enterprise 2.0 Two videos, somewhat long, but worth watching. You might think about how this influences the enterprise (e.g.,

In this video taken at the Mayor of San Francisco’s press conference, @ev (Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter) is talking about how businesses use Twitter… and government departments That’s the sort of statistics that make it easy for us to sell Twitter as a business marketing tool. Some of his examples and points: Events - Earthquakes creates viral spike in activity

Generic communities based on generic tools, often have no stated purpose and employees or customers dont know why they should go there. Innovation is a Social Activity - and can not be managed or automated any other (process or transaction focused tools). tools to make their job easier with out approval from the IT department, dangerous data-ownership issues arise quickly. Innovation Management Products Customers Partners News Center Blog About Us The Leader In On-Demand Innovation Management Categories Current Affairs Innovation Tips Archives April 2009 March 2009 December 2008 Subscribe to our RSS Feed Ten Reasons Your Corporate Social Network Should be an