Lack of public participation If your team members aren’t already comfortable with using social media tools in their non-work life, chances are they won’t gravitate eagerly to the new social tools you’ve set up for inter-company inter-relating. Has your firewall blocked team access to public social networks? MORE >>

And for others still, it’s project or task management for teams. Similarly, the tools that those teams use must also break through artificial barriers between domains of collaboration. Do.com is a good example of a simple-to-use collaboration tool that combines usability with capability. Collaboration equals integration. MORE >>

Existing Adoption At the very start I asked the audience for examples of where they were currently using these tools as part of learning solutions. Tools - A Summary and particularly my use of the course wiki as the basis for putting course notes, having each team put up their work, etc. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 MORE >>

She can see the collaborative spaces and view the profiles of her team members. For example, the Jansen-Cilag intranet allows people to manage their own IT assets (see ). James said the important issue is the employee experience and not whether it is on the cloud or inside the firewall.  Here is the session description. MORE >>

‘ESME’ (’Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment’) is essentially a behind the firewall version of Twitter, designed to run on top of Netweaver. The core team around ESME were using Plurk while Twitter was down and began bouncing around the idea of an enterprise Twitter on that platform. ” Office 2.0 MORE >>