By Amy Turner, The Community Roundtable Want to make sure your community fails? Tell your potential members it is being created to enhance collaboration. Rob Cross of the University of Virginia and others recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review about the culture of “collaborative … [Read more...]
Your online community should be anti-collaboration
By Ted McEnroe, Director of Research and Training, Want to make sure your community fails? Tell your potential members it is being created to enhance collaboration. Rob Cross of the University of Virginia and others recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review about the culture of … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Email Opinions, Collaboration Strategy and Community Communications
By Shannon Abram, Relationship Manager at The Community Roundtable. Quick show of hands: do you consider email to be your friend, or a foe to be vanquished? We've been thinking a lot about the ways we communicate with our communities this week. Yesterday's #ESNchat focused on the very email … [Read more...]
Friday roundup: A peek inside internal communities and some great reads
By Ted McEnroe, The Community Roundtable Sometimes, the theme for the week is planned - other times, you see it emerge. Looking back at this week, we have been spending a lot of time thinking about internal communities, intranets and ESNs. Rachel shared some thoughts earlier this week on the … [Read more...]
Alcoa Case Study – Social Business and Observable Work
One of the sessions at the Enterprise 2.0 conference was lead by Brian Tullis and Joe Crumpler of Alcoa Fastening Systems (yes, Alcoa uses social processes and tools which means you can too...) and they spoke about how social tools make work 'observable' and its implications. One direct implication … [Read more...]
