Celia Hamilton talks with Kat Mandelstein about social business user adoption. You can listen to the eight minute interview over on Celia’s blog. Here’s a couple of the questions and answers: Q (Celia). What do companies need to take into consideration to promote user adoption? A (Kat). Too […]
In conjunction with Silverside in Netherlands, I will be presenting a one-day User Adoption Strategies Workshop in Gouda on June 26. The details are now live, and registration is open. I’m looking forward to being back in the Netherlands for this workshop. As Roland mentions in the description […]
Having knowledge of a domain lays the context for being asked to contribute that knowledge to a topic, a project, a cause, or an initiative at your organization. When new tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Connections, or Jive (among others) are used to bring people together in […]
A few months ago Pamela wrote that Effective enterprise collaboration strategy needs everyone on the bus. I’m confused by some of the advice in the article – there’s an underlying ethos throughout that rings off to me. Here’s the reactions I’m having as I’m reading it through. Paragraph […]
Elaine from OBS in Australia shares her top 13 list of features in SharePoint 2013. The 13 include adding content easily, sharing content easily, access anywhere, My Task List, leveraging experts, and more. I don’t have a problem with the list, and am pleased to see that (at […]
I have been working on my new book, Doing Business with IBM Connections, since publishing the second edition of User Adoption Strategies. The new book takes a very pragmatic and grounded approach to how business people / end users can make use of IBM Connections in the day-to-day […]
Last week I had the privilege of running a two-day in-house workshop for an organization in New Zealand on user adoption strategies for their new SharePoint-based intranet. The project manager who arranged the session sent in this feedback: “I have had great feedback from your workshop – and […]
Debra comments on three big social business implementation challenges, coming out of a recent IBM study. “But all of this doesn’t just happen by virtue of establishing presence on external social networks or even by implementing an internal social business platform, the respondents noted. According to the report, […]
In the second-to-last blog post I’ll be writing for The Smarter Office, I posted about adoption of mobile devices and apps, and how the current dynamics are different to collaboration systems: “… there are a range of practical and sociological factors at play in the adoption of collaboration […]
Sam Marshall from ClearBox Consulting is talking about loving the intranet, and how to encourage adoption. Key points: – How do we encourage people to adopt new tools? – 2011 survey from Information Week, "13% of IT professionals believe their social tools have been a success." – We […]
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