Employees shouldn’t waste too much time on the intranet; social media wastes time; the Internet is a productivity drain. These are common refrains and concerns expressed by many executives, albeit the less educated ones, generally of an older generation, nearing or past retirement.   The exact same concerns were made about employee bathroom breaks, mealtimes, [...]

(SAN JOSE, CA) “Digital work became more social… but work has always been social,” says Thomas Vander Wal, InfoCloud Solutions, addressing the KM World 2009 conference. “Businesses by nature are social – you need to have people in your organization talking to each other.” Drivers of social media and enterprise 2.0 include: Office productivity tools [...]

(SAN JOSE, CA) “Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals,” says the man who coined the phrase, Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Author, Enterprise 2.0.   “A key word is emergent… we’ve always been good at [...]

(SAN JOSE, CA) “Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals,” says the man who coined the phrase, Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Author, Enterprise 2.0.

The folks in IT, communications and marketing are quick to understand and own the intranet. Their brethren in HR are often a little further behind them in terms of understanding and seizing the opportunity presented by the intranet and its associated technology. There are far too many HR departments that just don

There are small start-ups, emerging vendors, and the big enterprise portal and CMS vendors

Is Knowledge Management (KM) dying? Was it just a fleeting fad? I had to pause for a second when I read Dave Pollard

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Knowledge management (KM) solutions are now the most important strategic technologies for large companies