Social Networking Gets Serious – #prayforjapan

One of the main inhibitors with regards to a successful adoption of social software within the enterprise that I keep bumping into from fellow knowledge workers and, specially, their managers!, is that perception that social networking, you know, “things” like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like are just for fun. Social spaces where you goof … Continue reading Social Networking Gets Serious – #prayforjapan

Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking – Is Blogging Dead?

Scott Monty has got a rather interesting and very insightful blog post where he comes to ponder how every year there are a bunch of people out there, coming from different places, who keep questioning whether blogging is dead or whether we are enjoying the last few days of that phenomenon that got started over … Continue reading Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking – Is Blogging Dead?

Social Business Begins by Unleashing Your Business Talent

Over the last couple of days, two rather interesting, and noteworthy, articles over at Technology Review, written rather nicely by Erica Naone, have been making the rounds out there on Social Web around Enterprise 2.0 and the successful transformation of becoming a social business altogether and I thought I would spend a few minutes talking about … Continue reading Social Business Begins by Unleashing Your Business Talent

Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking – Twitter For Business

Yesterday evening, my time, I attended a rather interesting webcast with Sandy Carter, IBM’s Worldwide Sales Vice President, IBM Social Business, Collaboration, and Lotus Sales and Evangelism, along with Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst at Altimeter Group, on the topic of Why Be Social?. It surely was quite an interesting event and, if you would be … Continue reading Making Business Sense of Social Media and Social Networking – Twitter For Business

Social Business – Rethinking Innovation, Organization and Leadership

Over the course of the last few weeks I have been engaging on a good number of conversations around the subject of Leadership (Which I am hoping to be talking about plenty more very soon, by the way, once a publication makes it out there in the next couple of weeks…), and how social networking is … Continue reading Social Business – Rethinking Innovation, Organization and Leadership

IBM’s Lotusphere 2011 Highlights – Get Social, Do Business!

Another week on the road has just gone by without me hardly ever noticing it, as I was doing some more business travelling to both Madrid and Barcelona, meeting up with customers to talk further on around the subject of Social Computing and Social Software Adoption. Then a day or two to catch up with the … Continue reading IBM’s Lotusphere 2011 Highlights – Get Social, Do Business!

IBM’s Lotusphere 2011 Highlights – People-Centric vs. Content-Centric by Louis Richardson

Continuing further with the series of blog posts on highlights from IBM’s Lotusphere 2011 event in Orlando, FL, a couple of weeks back, I thought I would go ahead today and share with you folks what, to me, was one of the major highlights from the entire week, which is, basically, sharing some further insights … Continue reading IBM’s Lotusphere 2011 Highlights – People-Centric vs. Content-Centric by Louis Richardson