Fwd: KM Bulletin: D Street - Ent. Social Computing at Deloitte - webinar

This looks like an interesting event - too bad, I won't be able to participate. If anybody does, please share a summary and some of your thoughts about it.

Enterprise Social Computing at Deloitte "Deloitte" is the brand under which approximately 169,000 dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to selected clients.  Deloitte is a respected, long time leader with a proven track record in helping their customers become more efficient, reliable and successful.  NewsGator is proud to have Deloitte Services as a customer - and we invited a few of their key leaders to share their reasons for pursuing an enterprise social computing solution for their organization.  We are very fortunate to have those 3 Deloitte representatives share their business drivers, expectations and results in this upcoming webinar.   We invite you to join J.B. Holston, NewsGator CEO & President, and our special guest speakers from Deloitte:  Patricia Romeo, Talent Innovation, Lawrence Blank-Cook, Sr. Knowledge Manager, and Joseph Press, Specialist Leader. This webinar will offer Deloitte's perspectives on the following topics: The value of enabling and connecting your employees from the HR perspective The application of social collaboration and knowledge sharing across lines of business The voice of a practitioner advising customers on how to best leverage social computing solutions   Webinar April 20, 2010 at 2:00 pm ET Speakers: Patricia Romeo, Talent Innovation, Deloitte Lawrence Blank-Cook, Sr. Knowledge Manager, Deloitte Joseph Press, Specialist Leader, Deloitte J.B. Holston, CEO & President, NewsGator

Presenting at KM Argentina next week

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For all interested - I will be presenting via webinar at next weeks KM Argentina conference: http://digs.by/bkB

Watch out Windows XP/Vista/7 !

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I have been a Microsoft Windows user for the longest time. Part out of satisfaction (that it does a good (not perfect) job at what it is doing), necessity (it came with the PC I bought and was not an additional cost) and convenience (it was there, installed, ready to go (at home and work)). BUT, there were the issues of usage – crashes, slowness, incompatibilities, restrictions – which a lot of others may have experienced in different ways.

I have been experimenting with Linux LiveCDs for a while, and seem to have finally found one that fulfills satisfaction, necessity and convenience without any cost – gOS from thinkgos.com. I downloaded the ISO file, burned it on CD, rebooted and within 30minutes was up and running. gOS booted pretty quickly, the install took care of all the resizing and partitioning, and restarted the computer in a very responsive and visually appealling new environment with all the relevant software installed (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.). I did this for the desktop and the laptop and in both cases it went very smooth.

I can highly recommend gOS.

best guesses on blogging and tweetering

let me throw out some assurancetion and see if anybody agrees or disagrees with them: -blogging is good for exploring and documenting more complex thoughts, experiences and matters -twitter is good for all the random strikes of genius that happen during the day -like in most cases, most tweeds only have limited value -its all about becoming more mobile. could the rise of 3G netbooks bring blogging back to the front.. or will the masses of basic txt enabled phones keep the capabilities at twitter par ? hmm.. Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

asae talking about sharepoint implementation

reggie from asae is talking about his aaproach and lessons learned from implementing sharepoint. he says that they went to the ms envision center and that it really changed the way they worked. build advocates and focus on the work, not the tool. Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Sharepoint conference for non for profit 2009 - josh bernoff talking about GROUNDSWELL

josh bernoff held a very interesting speech about the use of social media and its use in the industry, here with a special focus on NFPs and NGOs. Key message was that one has to be clear about your objectives. for some areas it is a must. make sure that once you start with social media, it may change the way you are working. Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Blogging, Collaboration and Reputation Management

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What if blogging:

-has a lot to do with collaborating between experts of a certain matter to exchange thoughts and experience and communicate the results to the related professional community ?

-has a lot to do with creating and maintaining one's professional reputation as an expert for a certain matter and results in creating formal and informal professional social networks ?

-would be the means by which information and knowledge would be shared within an organization, e.g. blog management instead of content management ?

-is mixed with Wikis and each blog posting is a wiki page that allows to evolve the topic discussed ?

Food for thought on Friday, the 13th.

KMWorld2008 sharepoint as a collaboration tool

Michael Sampson put together a compelling case of the more in detail weaknesses of Sharepoint. He concludes that Sharepoint is great for sharing documents, but lots of other capabilities dont go all the way to being more useful, than disappointing. Consolidation of calendaring between outlook, sharepoint and windows mobile being one example. Here is his blog, including comments on this conference

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KMWorld2008 James Robertson about collaboration and publishing

James Robertson from StepTwoDesign makes a good point (with a strong australian accent :-) ) about the use of a groups/department/projects use of a collaboration environment (could be sharepoint) in two different ways:
1. the use as a 'shop' front-end (publishing like) for information to share with others outside the group
2. the use of a 'workshop' back-bone (collaboration like) for information to work on and change within the group.

Interesting approach that is worth further investigation. Metadata is a very critical component of it all.

kmworld08 susan hanley on sharepoint

Susan is doing an entertaining and interesting job describing important thoughts, lessons learned and non-technical facts around sharepoint and making it succesfull.

Kmworld08 business process and km integration

It may have been easier for him in hebrew, but yair dembinsky from byonit solutions made a good point: for km to be more than a nice wallpaper, it needs to be embedded in the organizations core processes.. Even if that means to have to find intra political ways to make it happen. Strong message. Right on

kmworld08 leading practices

The cathlic health initiatives organization gave a great presentation on their approach to get, use and measure best/leading practices. Definitely worth digging deeper.

kmworld08 accenture on km roi

Interesting. Accenture went to simplify km roi to time savings only. Works for consulting where time is money. They do have a god metrics model that reaches from availability to usage and impact.

kmworld08 opening keynote

John kao gave a great.. And scary. Speech on the state of innovation here and around the world. I will checkout innovationnationbook.com for more information

kmworld2008 sharepoint and km session

interesting workshop. very interactive, high level. leson learned - lots of organizations are looking to use sharepoint, all challenged by the same questions.. how do i do it right. how do i implement.. and keep it successful.

kmworld2008 1st day workshop on dynamic

pretty interesting session about dynamic content creation, mgmt and consumption. metadata is very important. ann rockley from rockley group is doimg a good job.

Twit2Fit

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Interesting use of new communication capabilities for Health and Wellness purposes:

“using Twitter to support and inspire one another to improve our wellness, whether it be through diet, exercise or even spiritual health."

Pretty good idea to use your social connection to help you achieve a specific goal. Motivation and the feeling of not fighting the pounds all by yourselve may just be making the important difference. Definitely different approach from Nintendo's WiiFit :-).

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Yuval from MyWorklight talking about secure Web 2.0

I am currently live-blogging from the KM Chicago event where the CTO of MyWorklight is talking about secure ways of using Web 2.0 i organizations. Very interesting. Check it out: http://kmchicago.blogspot.com.

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U.S. Air Force lets Web 2.0 flourish behind walls

Image via WikipediaU.S. Air Force lets Web 2.0 flourish behind walls
Blogs, wikis and personal profiles promote information sharing, but some fear they could jeopardize operational security
July 17, 2008 (IDG News Service) The U.S. Air Force is using Web 2.0 technologies to better support its missions despite wariness about security, a civilian technology official of the service
The new techniques, including blogs, wikis and personal profiles, are coming out of an initiative by Air Force Knowledge Now (AFKN), a resource provided on the Department of Defense (DOD) intranet. They're helping service members and civilian employees find the information they need more quickly and are now being shared with members of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines, according to Randy Adkins, director of the Air Force's Center of Excellence for Knowledge Management said last week.

IMHO, this article nicely points out the benefits, as well as the concerns about the use of Web2.0/Social Media capabilities in organizations. There is easy sharing, connecting to other experts and a more collaborative approach to working online together, and there is need for the building of social networking and sharing awareness.

Next step up for Social Networking software ?

Image via Wikipedia"Content management software vendors eye social networking
Content management software vendors are pondering social networking features and are expected to collaborate or acquire so-called white label networks to make their enterprise apps more social. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9219"

Could this be the start of another round of consolidation, as well as the standardization and commercialization of Social Networking software ? Content Management vendors will likely purchase some of these companies to complete their offering, make them scalable and integrateble - all good things with regards to the utilization of social networking within business environments.