Comments on: ASIST 2007 Notes: My Corporate Blogs and Wikis Presentation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2007/10/30/asist-2007-notes-my-corporate-blogs-and-wikis-presentation/ Happy Grandparents Day! Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:41:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Saqib Ali http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2007/10/30/asist-2007-notes-my-corporate-blogs-and-wikis-presentation/#comment-11556 Saqib Ali Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:11:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2007/10/30/asist-2007-notes-my-corporate-blogs-#comment-11556 Recently, Professor <a href="http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=amcafee&loc=extn" rel="nofollow">Andrew McAfee</a> of Harvard Business School <a href="http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/how_to_hit_the_enterprise_20_bullseye/" rel="nofollow">shared his thoughts</a> on use of Web 2.0 technologies in a large Enterprise. He started off by differentiating between a co-worker and a colleague. The employees that form ties are colleagues, rest are only co-workers. Colleagues are the one who actually help you achieve your goals. Professor McAfee then divided these "ties" and relationship into four categories: 1. Strong Ties; 2. Weak Ties; 3. Potential Ties; 4. No Ties. He then went into details of how various Enterprise 2.0 technologies can strengthen these ties. Summary of where each Web 2.0 technology can help: 1. Wikis - Strong ties are already formed - e.g. a group working on a document; 2. Social Networking Software - Weak Ties - help you get information from a Weaker ties; 3. Blogs - Potential Ties - Helps you convert a potential/weak ties into a actual ties; 4. Prediction Markets - Helps in areas where there are no ties; Making decision using Collective Intelligence. Read the entire Blog post with all the interesting details and recommendations at: <a href="http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/how_to_hit_the_enterprise_20_bullseye/" rel="nofollow">How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye Recently, Professor Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School shared his thoughts on use of Web 2.0 technologies in a large Enterprise. He started off by differentiating between a co-worker and a colleague. The employees that form ties are colleagues, rest are only co-workers. Colleagues are the one who actually help you achieve your goals.

Professor McAfee then divided these “ties” and relationship into four categories:

1. Strong Ties;
2. Weak Ties;
3. Potential Ties;
4. No Ties.

He then went into details of how various Enterprise 2.0 technologies can strengthen these ties.

Summary of where each Web 2.0 technology can help:

1. Wikis - Strong ties are already formed - e.g. a group working on a document;
2. Social Networking Software - Weak Ties - help you get information from a Weaker ties;
3. Blogs - Potential Ties - Helps you convert a potential/weak ties into a actual ties;
4. Prediction Markets - Helps in areas where there are no ties; Making decision using Collective Intelligence.

Read the entire Blog post with all the interesting details and recommendations at:
How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye

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