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"BASF is a well-known German company with over 100,000 employees worldwide. A few years ago, when I visited German companies and participated in Enterprise 2.0 events in the country, there was considerable skepticism that collaboration based on social media would ever achieve significant uptake in a conservative business culture that is highly traditional as well as very hierarchical. Fortunately, this turned out not to be the case. These days, it’s easy to come across successful examples of European (and German) Enterprise 2.0 initiatives, however BASF has become one of the most well-documented and compelling."

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"So why is collaboration as rare as it is?

The short answer is that collaboration is dangerous. Inherently, collaboration says something is happening outside of one's immediate control. This by itself seems threatening to some, but there are several specific reasons why it appears dangerous:"

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"Cette enquête menée auprès de conducteurs de bus montre que ceux qui se contraignent à être aimables voient leur humeur peu à peu se détériorer en même temps qu'ils tendent à se désinvestir de leur tâche. Elle confirme les conclusions d'études précédemment menées sur le sujet. «Les employés qui expriment leurs vrais sentiments jouissent d'une meilleure santé, ont un sentiment de réalisation personnelle plus fort et sont plus attachés à leur travail», "

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"Overview: Launching and getting up and running is only half the battle when it comes to CoPs. CoP pundits are constantly advocating new social technologies, new processes, and new metrics. But for a CoP (and its members) to thrive requires embracing a few simple organizational change ideas, and making them concrete, authentic, and fun. The “Sustainable Communities Critical Success Factors” do just that. A sustainable Community of Practice (CoP) demonstrates measurable value to both the organization and CoP participants contributing relevant knowledge, and nourishing lasting and productive relationships. Any CoP, by definition, convenes to cross organizational boundaries, to build a shared body of knowledge, and to network. But a sustainable CoP comes together with a shared sense of passion and applies that to practical outputs. While most COPs fade, sustainable CoPs endure:

* Members express a spirit of volunteerism that beyond their personal objectives and “WIIFM”;
* CoP “working groups” generate relevant products that integrate diverse insights; and
* CoP outcomes show up in corporate metrics, and, ultimately CoP ideas influence corporate planning. "

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"Pourtant, le mot Community Manager pourrait sembler une contradiction dans les termes, et sa traduction en français, Animateur de Communauté, beaucoup plus qu’une traduction, une interprétation, et peut être aussi une intention"

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"The way we currently think about community management – for the most part – is a role played by someone managing a set of relationships often mediated by an online destination"

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The particular focus here is on the points I made in response to John Tropea’s interesting vision of what he calls a “role-based” organization. In this, individuals would have greater discretion to organize their own roles and relationships to suit their particular talents and interests

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