Archive for July, 2011

Looking for Resources on Emergent Collaboration?

July 29th, 2011

Connie and I decided that we are going to be putting our Chess Media Group Facebook page to better use.  Over the past few months we have been sporadically using it to share some articles and resources but we’re really going to ramp that up. It’s hard to follow all of the news, updates, events, and resources on emergent collaboration everyday, especially on various social channels.  Our Facebook page is going to act as a curated source of content where you can find what Connie and I consider to be the most interesting and valuable pieces of content and information on emergent collaboration.

Sure, we will also be sharing some fun stuff, news, announcements, and updates as well; just because we like to have a human component to what we do.

Furthermore, we want you to be able to post your own resources and interesting content as well and we will do what we can to share it around!  We also invite you to open up a conversation or a discussion on emergent collaboration or just say ‘hi.’

To date, we have 530 people who like our content and we hope to grow this number significantly.  Tell your friends and your colleagues and help us grow the page into a valuable resource for everyone interested in emergent collaboration; we can’t do it without you! :)

Join the Chess Media Group Facebook page. We’ll provide you with valuable and interesting content, regularly!

Understanding Resistance to Emergent Collaboration

July 27th, 2011

Resistance to anything new is not uncommon and should in fact be expected.  Emergent collaboration is no different and organizations that are investing in these tools and strategies can expect to see resistance.  Resistance comes in three different ways: employee resistance, manager resistance, and IT resistance.  In the upcoming Chess Media Group report on the state of enterprise 2.0 we will cover all of these in detail including a look at what the common reasons for resistance are.  However, for now I wanted to draw your attention to a similar study (from 2009) which was conducted by Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen from Information Architected.

Personally I found it quite interesting to see how many organizations were actually faced with resistance, and I was a bit shocked to see that 72% user resistance figure! Finally, the budget allocation (slide 16) is something I wrote about in the past and I feel it’s…quite off.

Rolling out Features of an Emergent Collaboration Platform

July 24th, 2011

After selecting a vendor for your enterprise collaboration initiative it’s tempting to just release the product with all the features to the company.  This is not the most effective way to roll out a platform as it will overwhelm the employees who are going to be using it.  Many tools and platforms today come with [...]

Focus on Value or Features of Enterprise 2.0?

July 19th, 2011

When discussing emergent collaboration solutions with clients or with organizations seeking to implement the best piece of advice that I (and I’m sure many others) can give is to focus on the value and not on the features or the technology of a platform.  This means that instead of telling employees  that they can post [...]

Global Intranet Trends for 2011 (part 3)

July 15th, 2011

Check out the Global Intranet Trends part 1 and part 2 here. Just to re-cap all of the data and the charts shown in this post are from a report which Jane McConnell put together.  You can find the report available for purchase as well as a link to her new survey for 2012 here. Let’s start things [...]

Google Plus, the Best Way to Duplicate Your Content

July 12th, 2011

So I’ve been playing around with Google + since it came it (a few weeks now?) and I’m starting to notice something interesting.  People are posting the same content on Google + that they are posting on Twitter, Facebook, and on other social channels.  I click on someone’s Twitter profile and they share a link, [...]