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Re: Increase Your Company's Productivity With Social Media

gialyons — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:43:22 -0000

"Ask Me About" is a great example of tagging yourself. A customer of mine also suggested tagging your profile with your willingness to mentor, too. Great for on-boarding new hires or newly acquired employees.

Re: The Turtle Ultimately Wins The Race

gialyons — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:00:01 -0000

Thanks for the comments! I honestly think this is why it's so hard to justify "hanging out" on the Web all day long, because, as SimpleLeap Software says, you don't see the results instantly, nor can you point to some social Web moment and say, "that's a lead."

This makes it difficult to justify a fully loaded FTE - someone who knows your company, your products, your people, your customers, your prospects - to just "hang out" all day.

Higher-end hotels have one to several concierges. How is that job justified, I wonder?

Re: What's next with Lotus Connections ?

gialyons — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:39:18 -0000

Congratulations! Great to hear about all the exciting new and improved stuff coming in Lotus Connections. See you in the field, mi amigo. ;)

Re: The S Word

gialyons — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:16:59 -0000

Love your prose abilities, Alex! People will use the software that they know the people they need to know use. Call it what you will, but make it usable, please.

Re: The S Word

gialyons — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:28:00 -0000

I can't imagine anyone pitching their ESSP wares without using more than just the word "social" these days. During the sales stage, vendors always trot out the entire tag cloud associated with "social" when trying to describe business value (just ask me - I'm a vendor). So, picking a label isn't really critical if you're using all of them in the first place.

The issue is when you get to the implementation stage. You need to understand your organization's culture well enough to successfully position these platforms in the context of everything else IT has thrown at them for the past decade. So, calling it "collaboration tools" will just confuse the hell out of your users.

On the other hand, if you spend time culturally branding your ESSP solution, and promote it, and communicate clearly about how it enables specific business initiatives beyond "better collaboration" - basically do everything you've never done with all those other "collaboration" tools of the past - then achieving real business value becomes probable.

Just sayin'.

Re: Exercise & Cold Weather: Survive The Chill

gialyons — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:09:26 -0000

I like stuff from http://lululemon.com. It's a Vancouver, BC-based company, and their fabrics and fit are premium.

Re: Enterprise 2.0 is Not THAT Big a Deal

gialyons — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:56:17 -0000

"I believe that Enterprise 2.0 will be as big a deal for corporate performance and productivity. I believe this because I believe that the informal organization is as important as the formal one for getting work done (do you agree?)"

I do. Undocumented human-centric business processes - the stuff we've all been doing in conference rooms, IM, email, the phone, in the hallways - have great potential to become more efficient, and more importantly, become more OBSERVABLE across the enterprise with ESSPs. This means they could benefit from innovative improvement, and ohmigod, even standardization across the enterprise.

Ok, I might be pushing it with that last statement.

Re: Leaving Forrester, Joining Jive

gialyons — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:29:25 -0000

Holy crap! That's awesome news! Glad to have you aboard the Jive Juggernaut!

Re: Friending and Reputation

gialyons — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:28:01 -0000

Fiercely interested in this topic, so thanks for posting! I asked my Twitter network about a month ago, "Does following equal recommending?".. here's what they said: http://giatalks.com/blog/fo.... Like many posters, I've been asked to recommend people simply because we got our paychecks from the same company. That's a no-go for me.

I'm focused more on what happens inside large organizations, since recommendations seem to have even more weight within a finite community ("Gee, I have coffee with her every day, but I don't really know if she's any good at her job.").

Bottom line: I can only recommend people for their skills that I have personally witnessed.

Re: So Fresh Tshirts

gialyons — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:09:42 -0000

I like #2 better. They both need to be ironed, though.

Re: [secondary artif@cts] • Yes, Enterprise2.0. e2conf lessons learned.

gialyons — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:22 -0000

Hey, attribute, buster. ;) That's an original statement by yours truly (rare, I know, but still).