Giving up email

Inspired by Luis Suarez, I am going to give up email for the most part. First step is getting rid of my newsletter subscriptions. Either unsubscribing or better adding the RSS feed to my personal homepage! The next step will be using other media go motivate coworkers and clients to start using other tools. This will be a lot harder than the newsletter stuff… But we will see what will happen!

Luis experiment even got some attention from Andrew McAfee in a recent blogpost! It seems that getting rid of the email overflow is a genuine topic in business these days.

I am back

The past months I have been using Webnode as my website. But I wanted to go back to WordPress so I changed my domain and we are back!

Hoping to see you here more often! And I promise to be here more often to! 

the last post

Since today I will not be posting here anymore. I will not stop but I continue to post on ynno research! There you can read the thoughts of some other collegues of mine.

why your company should start with enterprise 2.0

There is one very good reason: the people you are about to employ in 5 to 10 years are born and raised on web 2.0 stuff. So if your company does not start now with adapting to an enterprise 2.0 style nobody will work at your company in 2015. The battle for talent is getting more intense every day. Not offering the approperiate tools and stuff in the office will destroy your competitive edge on the labor market.  

 Of course this is just one reason your company should start, there are some others like: knowledge transfer, getting the whole world to work for you practically for free, building your network etc etc.

why enterprise 2.0 will not change an organization

In the last view days professor mcafee and tom davenport have been discussing online about enterprise 2.0. Is E20 going to be the next big thing or not? Both agree that technology is not going to change an organization. E20 will only succeed if an organization is ready and able to do so. As professor mcafee points out, the IT department has to transform or step out of the way and let users decide which technology they need. Business users have go out and explore the internet. Management must understand this is going to happen, and workers will do it more and more! When the current MySpace generation start to work, current management will not know what has hit them. Technolgy will not change an organization but leadership will!

 In time a maturity model on enterprise 2.0 will evolve. This maturity model will audit a few concepts like leadership, culture and IT and give some directions how to change an organization to embrace enterprise 2.0 concepts and technologies.

fastforward

I added a new link in my blogroll: fastforward. The stuff on this blog is great, check it out!

enterprise 2.0 and the coffee machine

While I was reading an article from dion hinchcliffe about the reasons IT departements remain wary about enterprise 2.0 a came across a remark that caused my brain to hop. In my company we are talking about the effects of the physical workplace on the work of people from a knowledge management perspective. In this line of work it is hard to convince managers that it can be very usefull for people to come together and talk about work. The knowledge sharing that is happening at the coffeemachine may even be the best there is!

Dion made a remark about the fact that managers are wary to let people contribute an hour to an E2.0 application instead of ‘regular’ work. There is a paralel between the hour of dion and the time spent at the coffeemachine. It is about knowledge sharing and thus doing your job! People @ work will find their own ways of working. Management opposition on these initiatives will only work contraproductive!

Wikinomics

Today I listened to a podcast from HBR ideacast about wikinomics. The podcast covered a bookreview about the book ‘wikinomics’ from Don Tapscott and Anthony d. Williams. The book is about the way mass collaboration changes everything. Today stuff is not created by a small team of people stuck inside the boundaries of a company but is created by millions of people collaborating wiki-style.

In the book there is A brilliant example about a mining company giving away the most precious information to get more profit. At the site there is a sample chapter you can read. I am going to read the book, when I am finished I will give a review over here.

pulling your network together and making it happen

Well since monday I am trying to pull together my network and I am pleased that it is working quite well. To date 36 people have accepted my invitations and still some 15 outstanding. The speed and ease of use are working well.

Now the question is, my girlfriend already asked ‘what are you going to do with this?’. A good question and I do not know the answer yet. For now I am just trying to make my network bigger and just wait and see what happens.

Maybe only getting in touch with old collegues and friends. E20 style the application will get clear while the path is getting longer!

linked in & a new home

Well, today I spent al lot of time sending out invitations for linked in. I hope some will answer! Today I am having a day off to do some stuff for my new home. We are moving in march so I made a lot af arrangements today. I got a new powersupplier, ordered an oven, ended some aggreements and started some simple services.

Nowadays you can do a lot by phone and internet. I practically did this in two hours. connections are far more easy then they were some years a go. Companies have many channels they use to communicate with their clients. Networks and communication technology combined make live much easier. Your own network gives some adresses that you can trust and do fast business with!