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Social Glass

covering the transparent enterprise

When Yammer launched its public Beta I jumped on board and setup an account straight away. I then invited everybody I knew at work to join, and within a few hours we had 30 people create accounts. It was cool, people in Canada updated their status and people in China responded to them etc. I even flew from San Diego to Florida, had a layover in Dallas, “yammered” that I was available for 30 minutes from my iPhone app if somebody needed to talk, and received a call from an IT guy with a question.
The diversity of participants was perhaps the coolest factor.

But then it started to die down. While our company user count is high in Yammer, volume is restricted mostly to a small group of 15 people, all of whom work in the same division. Maybe it’s a coincidence that we work on the Consumer Media side of the house, and that the others who initially signed up are less social media savvy. But I think we’ve drowned the other guys out. The 15 remaining people use Yammer to:

Share links to Proof of Concepts or blog posts
Broadcast when servers are being rebooted
Declare deadlines for code deployments
Indicate when a service is down or unresponsive
Let others

Aaron Fulkerson Talking to ScobleOctober 9

Aaron Fulkerson over at Mindtouch recently sat down with Scoble to talk about Deki Wiki. Check out the video.

It’s Alive!September 29

After many months of blood, sweat and tears, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation is finally available. Aaron Newman and I started this endeavor at the end of 2007. Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of Mindtouch, later came on board as our technical editor and had some great insight for us based on his experience with DekiWiki and SOA architectural principles. Jevon MacDonald was kind enough to write a foreward for us (and thanks, Jevon, for your announcement on the FASTForward Blog), with Susan Scrupski doing a review.

It’s a weird feeling seeing this book in its tangible form after spending so much time looking at PDF proofs and author/editor modifications. You can see the copies of the book I was sent by McGraw Hill the other day in the picture on the left.

Early feedback holds the book is a great guide for the technical aspects of implementing Enterprise 2.0, but that we’re light w

newthinking.bearingpoint.comSeptember 8

My former employer, BearingPoint, has recently launched newthinking.bearingpoint.com, a Wordpress-powered blog seemingly open to all employees. This is a bold move as consulting companies typically guard their intellectual property with an iron first. But BearingPoint has been a leader when it comes to transparency. MIKE2, BearingPoint’s information management methodology, launched in 2005 and is “open source”, meaning it’s free for all to consume and contribute to, even competitors. The value to doing this is that BearingPoint capitalizes on the IM market taking business from rivals who would otherwise charge for the information that is free on MIKE2. And, while open, IM methodologies are complex to implement, and clients will be quick to select BearingPoint as their implementation vendor.Kudos to Nate and Jay, who must have played a huge role in getting thiew new blog rolled out. And check out this post from my buddy Sean (who’s getting married next month). Sean is a

MySQL Enables Enterprise 2.0August 15

Did you know that MySQL enables Enterprise 2.0? I didn’t realize a database could do that.

MySQL defines Enterprise 2.0 as modern organizations implementing Web 2.0 technologies, architectures, and delivery models to offer browser-based, data-driven online applications to their business users.

Their definition focuses on the technical side of E2.0, but doesn’t acknowledge the cultural side of it. Regardless, it’s a stretch to say a database is an E2.0 enabler. A database is but one ingredient of the Enterprise 2.0 recipe. It’s how the cook mixes the ingredients that determines how good the food is.