Home Content RSS Log in Connected Connected Home About My Passion Speaking How to Plan a Social Business Software Pilot February 25th, 2011 by Gia Lyons Leave a reply » Six steps before you launch your socbiz pilot You’ve already gained executive sponsorship for your social business software pilot. Guess what? And so forth. MORE >>

Socialtext’s hosted solution was just what we needed.” Steve Brewer, Customer Connection Mgr. Systems Integration  Why Socialtext? In search of a solution, the IT department researched several different platforms, including 37 Signal’s Basecamp, Microsoft SharePoint, and Socialtext. Steve Brewer, Customer Connection Mgr. MORE >>

Here’s an observation from Ross Mayfield , founder of SocialText, in 2007: But I’ll also make one argument, about how the change in tools may be deterministic for changing culture and about cultural spillover.  Examples of shared-power organizations are growing, but not so much that they are the majority. MORE >>

SharePoint is many things, but it misses the critical element of social media which is networked connection between people and ideas, easy discoverability, makes visible and allows people to act on weak ties, and support for other network-like interactions rather than closed group performance. SharePoint is a perfect example. MORE >>

However, there are a variety of meanings being assigned to the concept: Lean business processes that employ social software methods and patterns - for example, using a wiki page to plan a meeting agenda. Augmenting line of business applications with social features - for example, linking a transaction record to a discussion. MORE >>