Ahmad Al-Shagra's List: Enterprise 2.0

• Common Craft now sells licenses for high-quality, downloadable versions of their explanatory videos. All of their time working is now spent building out the library. Videos are licensed for under $20 for individual use and $350 for site-wide use, like on a company intranet. Commercial licensing, for use on public commercial websites, is the next option the company will be offering.

• And even more important, Elgan raises a point he made years ago from another article—that the real utility of social networks is not to help us connect with the 10 people in our lives who we care and love about the most, but rather the value lies in being able to cast our net wide & far so we can maintain relationships with 100s of people in a way we never could before this technology. Social networks may be more valuable to us in that they allow us to maintain more “weak ties” than we ever could before. Our “strong ties,” after all, are already “strong,” and don’t benefit as much from the technology boost.

• As with many of the social media tools, there is an impact on the intranet, particularly on communication channels and siloing of information. This article outlines:

   
   
  • strategic considerations 
  • practicalities on how to set up microblogging 
  • how to drive adoption

• • Brilliant source on how to navigate through a conversation with Social Media sceptics. 
• How do you bridge knowledge gaps within your company?
• With social networks we can follow people passively and increase the number of weak ties we can manage (think acquaintances rather than friends). By increasing the number of weak ties within an organization, it makes it easier for people to find the right person for the right problem
• How do you measure someone’s influence amongst their co-workers?
• How do you monitor and recognize problems within your company?

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