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ATOMonline communities for accountants
Posted 8 days ago by caspar
30/07/2008
I was asked last week to provide feedback on the online community that the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW) has set up and of which I should confess I am a paid up member from a former life as bean counter.I think they have done a great job at IT Counts (what the site is called) and thought it would be worth publically sharing my views:The challenge with any community site is finding sufficient fresh interesting relevant content that its users find sufficiently compelling to encourage them to want to return on a regular basis. If the content and the...
Dell opens up employee access to social media
Posted 28 days ago by Jon Mell
10/07/2008
Dell, who pinoeered crowd sourcing with Ideastorm, has now opened up access to its employees for social software sites such as MySpace and YouTube.Great to see a company opening up and trusting employees
Fear of failure in Enterprise 2.0
Posted about 1 month ago by Jon Mell
08/07/2008
"Fear of failure" is often seen as an inhibitor in life, both professionally and personally. I was with a client the other day who certainly had a fear of failure around Enterprise 2.0. They wanted to get it absolutely right, and had spent up to a year getting input from various stakeholders - essentially doing a traditional requirements gathering exercise. They then prioritised the list, and had come to a loose agreement on the features of phase 1, due for release in August 2009!During the workshop, we gradually got them to realise that they didn't need to get it right...
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