Entries Tagged as 'symposium'
by Carol Rozwell | August 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
Knowledge management has gone through a metamorphosis but it seems not everyone got the memo. In our Gartner research, we’ve written about a shift in focus from knowledge capture to creating connections among knowledgeable people. The premise of the research is that the reason so many of the knowledge management initiatives started a decade a [...]
Category: Change management Collaboration community Knowledge management Social media Social networks social software Tags: Change management, Collaboration, Collaboration dynamics, communities of practice, Knowledge management, learning, Organizational liquidity, Social media, Social networking, social software, symposium
by Carol Rozwell | October 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
This week Anthony Bradley and I delivered a webinar titled “Taking A Strategic Approach to Social Media.” During the webinar we asked the attendees three questions about their social media initiatives. Here are the results from those polls. Question: How would you characterize your organization’s social media initiatives? 142 people answered this question. 19% – We’re [...]
Category: Change management Social media Social networks social software Strategic Planning Tags: Change management, Metrics, Social media, Social networking, Social networks, social software, symposium
by Carol Rozwell | October 10, 2011 | 9 Comments
Social has turned the corner from interesting to imperative. However, some business leaders are reluctant to explore how business getting social might benefit their organization. They believe that social media isn’t relevant for their organization or that it’s just a “consumer thing” and only marketing needs to pay attention. They make statements that imply that [...]
Category: Social media Social networks social software Tags: Social media, Social networking, Social networks, symposium
by Carol Rozwell | October 5, 2011 | 7 Comments
One of the sessions I moderated at the PCC Summit was a roundtable discussion of how to develop a social media strategy that services internal and external needs. The participants represented a variety of industries and circumstances, yet they shared a similar set of challenges: Running to catch up with consumer expectations Dealing with the [...]
Category: Change management Collaboration community Social media Social networks Tags: Change management, Collaboration dynamics, Innovation, Social media, Social networking, Social networks, symposium
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 [...]
Category: Change management Collaboration community Knowledge management Social media Social networks social software Uncategorized Tags: Change management, Collaboration, Collaboration dynamics, Collective, communities of practice, community, Community of practice, Knowledge management, Social media, Social networking, Social networks, symposium
by Carol Rozwell | November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Here is the final installment of the twitter view from the recently concluded Gartner Symposium in Cannes. The Wordle shows the weighted mentions of the more technically-oriented topics that were discussed Sunday through Thursday. ‘Cloud’ started out as the most mentioned topic (see Elise Olding’s blog) early in the week. Slowly, but surely, ‘social’ increased [...]
Category: Cloud Knowledge management Social media Uncategorized Tags: Knowledge management, Social media, symposium
by Carol Rozwell | November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
In this blog, I thought I’d give you a different view of the tweet stream From Gartner Symposium on Wednesday. This representation is courtesy of Emcien. It shows the patterns in word groupings along with the ranked popularity. Many attendees commented on how much they enjoyed Michael Dell’s talk. This tweet summarizes it well: @graemehackland [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Social media, Social networking, Social networks, symposium
by Carol Rozwell | November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Elise Olding, Deb Logan and I continued to monitor the twitter stream at the Gartner Symposium in Cannes (#gartnersym). According to Tweettronics as of 10 PM today (Cannes time) there were 1073 tweets from 356 users. The wordle describes what is on peoples’ minds. What’s interesting is how the mention of some topics (such as cloud) [...]
Category: Cloud Collaboration Social media Social networks social software Uncategorized Tags: Collective, Innovation, Social media, Social networking, symposium
