Helping you see more clearly through the fog of complexity
I have written about stopping using the word “trust” in the past and this practices has been a regular part of talks and workshops going back to around 2008 or so, and I wrote it up in Removing Trust – Personal InfoCloud. It isn’t the concept that is problematic it is the fact the term [ ]
Complexity occurs when there are multiples of elements and drivers, each with their own forces and directions that impact other elements around them. People, cultures, understandings, organizational constraints, systems, and tools are some of the impacting elements that are compounded by scale along with many other factors. Each of the forces is impacting the others. [ ]
20 Social Roles Overview and Background In 2011 I publicly shared the 20 Social Roles in a presentation to the Enterprise 2.0 conference. The audience in the talk that Gordon Ross and I gave was lost behind phones and cameras taking pictures of the slide with all 20 of the roles as I walked through each of them quickly. The 20 Social Roles has been a regular part of talks and workshops related to…
Intro: The last two or three years have been interesting in the community platform space as things have been shifting quite a bit with regard to vendors. Most every organization I know is looking at changing their platform as their contract is up for renewal and they are looking around, or their vendor s state has [ ]
I started my trek designing, developing, and managing social / collaboration platforms in 1996. Over those years I ve been part of a lot of different projects, development of platforms, long term and short term strategy and planning with vendors in the space, and in recent years back helping design, and product management (from an advisory [ ]
I have a lot of hands-on designing, developing, and managing of social / collaborative platforms since 1996 and regularly advise product makers, vendors, and buyers around right fitting and understanding then working on solving problems they may have. One of the things that was regularly surfacing around 2007 as enterprise social platforms were getting taken [ ]
One constant in the 20 years I ve been working in and around organizations and their social platforms is lack of understanding of the diversity of tool types. Today that lack of understanding of the diversity continues, but the diversity and the dimensions in that diversity have increased. Since 2004 I ve run workshops, given talks, written [ ]
During the last couple of years, since Slack has been publicly available, it has taken off like wildfire. To many it is just a chat service , which gets derided and belittled like most chat services do. This is until they find that chat has not only a place in organizations it has lasting value in [ ]
In 2008, or so, I would have semi-regular calls with a friend who was also doing social and collaboration consulting and advising. Stuart Mader and I would set aside 30 minutes or so to compare notes about our client work (these often lasted 2 to 3 hours). The common trait with our clients was most [ ]
One of the things that has brought happiness from the Connected Company book being out for nearly three years (now in paperback), is getting the idea of podular teams and organization out there for a wider understanding. From 2001 onward I ran my product and project teams in a podular manner. Since then I have [ ]