Carol Rozwell

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Spontaneous Social Adoption

by Carol Rozwell  |  August 18, 2011  |  6 Comments

In an earlier post Beware: The Seduction of Social, I commented that the “provide and pray” approach for social technology doesn’t work. While working on the Business Gets Social scenario for fall symposium, I explored two critical uncertainties: how organizations will allocate resources and how work will be executed. During this exploration, it became evident [...]

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Don’t Diss the Lurkers

by Carol Rozwell  |  August 8, 2011  |  3 Comments

Keeping a community vibrant and its members engaged is hard work. Shepherding a community through the stages of its lifecycle from inception to robust interaction takes finesse. Especially when communities of practice are expected to produce a work-related deliverable, balance is key. The community shepherd – I think that description is more appropriate than community [...]

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Beware: The Seduction of Social

by Carol Rozwell  |  July 25, 2011  |  2 Comments

During the past week, I enjoyed a number of face to face meetings with clients from across a wide variety of industries. We talked about a raft of issues, some industry-specific, some pretty general in nature. A theme that seldom surfaced explicitly but that underlies much of the discussion is what I like to call [...]

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Recap of the Social Media Webinar

by Carol Rozwell  |  July 15, 2011  |  14 Comments

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting a webinar titled “Taking a Strategic Approach to Social Media” (link to the replay) with Anthony Bradley. I’ll summarize some of the major points we covered by responding to three of the questions we received. Question: How do we justify an investment in social media? Answer: when social [...]

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The Future Workplace Is Already Here, Just Not Evenly Distributed

by Carol Rozwell  |  May 23, 2011  |  2 Comments

I spent a delightful day at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium (#MITCIO) last week. It was delightful because I had the luxury of listening to a roster of informative speakers discussing a wide variety of issues ranging from cloud (of course!) to analytics. It was also nice to be able to attend the event without [...]

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Social Initiatives Must Answer WIIFM – With Feeling!

by Carol Rozwell  |  May 16, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

I’ve just spent a week working with clients on the development of their social media strategy. We’ve gone through a mini-strategy planning session where we examined a key area for social deployment: the domain. A domain is an area of enterprise concern where social media may have a significant impact. We pose four questions for [...]

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PCC and C360 Wrap-up

by Carol Rozwell  |  April 6, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

I’ve just returned from the co-located Portals, Content & Collaboration and the Customer 360 Summits. We were encouraged the significant increase in attendance. More attendees than last year and more senior-level people. By all counts, people went home with new information and having made some new friends. My photo of the sculpture at LA Live [...]

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Blue M&Ms in the Green Room

by Carol Rozwell  |  February 16, 2011  |  3 Comments

Awhile back, I heard an interview with a well-known band. They described the challenge of road trips were they went from city to city, often with very little done time in between shows. In each location they had to give their best performance so the audience felt it was the first venue where they played, [...]

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In the land of too much

by Carol Rozwell  |  February 8, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

Those of us in the Northeast of the US are having and exciting winter – if you measure excitement by the amount of snow that’s fallen. This may be the first full week this month we are not bracing for another onslaught of the fluffy white delight. Now snow is fine, except when it falls [...]

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A few books that made me think

by Carol Rozwell  |  January 4, 2011  |  2 Comments

Now that we’ve closed out 2010 and are preparing for what might come our way in 2011, I’d like to share a few books that influenced my thinking last year and will undoubtedly be echoed in this year’s research. First, let me mention that there are many excellent business and management books. This list is [...]

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