Social Web

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Age Gap Fallacy and Social Networking – “Perspective Gap” Impacts Enterprise 2.0 Adoption

March 3, 2011 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Enterprise 2.0, Social Web

"How many people here are on Linkedin?" I asked a group of business professionals to whom I was speaking about enterprise social networking.  Everyone in the group raised their hands and I felt confident that this familiarity with a common business networking tool would allow me to draw parallels to the material that I was showcasing. I could not have been more wrong. It was...

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Reality Check – Email is Dead?

December 3, 2010 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Enterprise 2.0, Social Web, Twitter

There has been a ton of debate recently about new technologies displacing email as the defacto form of communication.  Is the demise of email sitting just over the horizon? In a recent The Next Web podcast, Twitter's ability to displace traditional email if the Twitter Direct Message character limit was expanded beyond 140 characters was held and the panel unanimously agreed that it was not a...

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Does the Social Web Benefit any Organization? Absolutely – If they are Smart

November 22, 2010 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Enterprise 2.0, Innovation, Social Web

Can any organization, regardless of their business vertical, benefit from the adoption of social technologies? Absolutely. Peter Evans-Greenwood recently authored a thought-provoking post entitled "The myth of the inevitability of social organisations", proposing that the majority of organizations will only gain marginal benefits from social technologies. Peter makes a series of insightful...

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