Monthly Archives: March 2009

Visualization: Social bookmarking in the enterprise

Ross Dawson, March 31, 2009 at 12:07 am

In our Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, we created visual representations to help explain how the most important social media tools can be applied inside organizations. The diagram below was used in the chapter on social bookmarking, which was designed to accompany the detailed coverage in the report, but it is hopefully fairly self-explanatory! Go to

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Pilots as a key instrument for improving organizational performance in a complex world

Ross Dawson, March 26, 2009 at 4:02 am

I caught up this afternoon with Chris Bayley of Buffalo Canyon Consulting and we had a very interesting conversation about Web 2.0 in organizations. Chris asked me about the role of pilots, and in our ensuing discussion I refined my thinking on this a bit. Examining how to run pilots plays a significant role in

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Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Free Chapter 4 – Key benefits and risks

Ross Dawson, March 25, 2009 at 2:52 pm

Continuing our series of free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0, here is Chapter 4 on Key Benefits and Risks. For full details on the report and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. As shown in the Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Framework above, understanding the potential benefits and risks from Enterprise 2.0

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It is totally INSANE that you cannot use an external keyboard on an iPhone

Ross Dawson, March 24, 2009 at 3:34 pm

I love my iPhone. But it has some deep flaws. OK, so cut-and-paste will be available with the 3.0 operating system – that’s good. The lack of a video camera is annoying and strange – rumors are that the next iPhone released in the northern summer will have video capabilities. But the thing that really

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Des Walsh video interviews at Enterprise 2.0: Chris Lampard, Jenny Williams, Peter Williams

Ross Dawson, March 18, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Social media commentator extraordinaire Des Walsh attended Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, and did a number of short video interviews with speakers at the event. The first three interviews including both the blog posts and the videos are below. Chris Lampard, Corporate Express Des Walsh blog post on Chris Lampard interview

Implementing Enterprise 2.0: Chapter 2 on Web 2.0 and the Enterprise

Ross Dawson, March 18, 2009 at 1:26 am

In the wake of our recent launch of the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report, we are providing a number of free sample chapters. For full details and all the sample chapters go to the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 website. Chapter 2 on Web 2.0 and the Enterprise uses our extremely popular Web 2.0 Framework as a foundation.

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Changing gears – onto the future of influence and new ventures!

Ross Dawson, March 16, 2009 at 2:44 pm

My readers will have seen a massive focus on Enterprise 2.0 in this blog for the last few months, as I have been preparing, promoting and running the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney and Enterprise 2.0 Executive Briefing in Melbourne, and writing and publishing Implementing Enterprise 2.0, which is rapidly becoming the reference in

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Launch of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework

Ross Dawson, March 12, 2009 at 2:36 pm

A centrepiece of our recently launched Implementing Enterprise 2.0 report is an Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework. Click on the image below to download the Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Framework pdf, which includes references to the relevant chapters for each of the action steps. Some of the chapters referred to are available for download from the Implementing

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mX newspaper: Blogs to conquer the office – prepare for the workplace of the future

Ross Dawson, March 8, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Last week mX newspaper in Melbourne (the city’s largest free newspaper with readership of over 300,000) had a little story on Blogs to conquer the office based on an interview with me. The article was originally intended to cover the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Executive Briefing which was run last Thursday in Melbourne, though the final

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The future of museums: the shift from expert curators to facilitators of participation

Ross Dawson, March 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm

Yesterday as a prelude to the Transformations in Scientific and Cultural Communication conference I’m speaking at today, the Directors of Australia and New Zealand’s largest museums and libraries gathered for a boardroom session. I joined the group to give a presentation on social media in organizations and was very interested to hear their perspectives. The

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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.

Ross is author most recently of Getting Results From Crowds, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, and Implementing Enterprise 2.0. (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.