Is dit de virtuele desktop van de toekomt?

Kijk eens op http://www.icloud.com wat is jou idee? Ik vind het wel de kant op gaan waarvan ik verwacht dat het de toekomst heeft, maar het jammere is dat ze toch weer eigen schijfruimte etc willen toevoegen. dit moet je toch zelf weten waar je wat opslaat etc.

Twitter businesswise

grappig precies een jaar later na onze blogs over twitter business wise inzetten, verschijnen er blogs over twitter business wise in zetten.

Het is er Office Live Workspaces

Het is nu in Nederland Office Live Workspaces. Probeer het hier.
Ik ben benieuwd wat dit voor en gevolgen heeft voor WSS 3.0

Webapplicaties in een Web Trend Map

Leuk om eens te bekijken, alle succesvolle webapps op één kaart.
KLIK.

Nog een ster aan het firmament?

In de kader van online collaboration tools is Central Desktop ook een aardige.
Maar bij een eerste oriëntatie krijg ik toch sterk het Google-apps / g-mail gevoel.

Twitter supports knowledge networking!

Knowing who has the knowledge is more important then have the knowledge yourself. This businessrule we often hear in our interviews with customers. An the other hand we see that networkingplatforms are growing every day outside the companies (linkedin, xing ed.).
But how can we use both trends useful for our organisations so that we achieve a sort of knowledge network in the organisation? So that employees are knowing from each other which knowledge is available in the organisation. Who knows what?

An other trend that we observe is that people more and more working in networks. When people are working for your organisation they use their own network to get the job done, but they also enlarge their netwerk with new contacts outside of your organisation. So it seems also important to keep also the network alive when employee’s leaving the organisation? The people who leave the organisation have specific knowlegde, they also are a part of the network of the employees who are still working for you and the leaving employee has a network that is interesting for the organisation (a part of the network is build up in your organisation).

We think that twitter can help the organisation to combine the trends in a positive way for the organisation. Twitter can help to:

• get many twitter friends and followers to get everyone involved (it is very easy to become friends)
• read what your friends are doing and what is on their mind to get more knowledge or ideas form the twitter network
• have an easy and fase way to get to know your coworkers and be known by the existing group
• blur the organizational borders, twitter networks do not care about your job. So if you stop working somewhere you can still be part of the network
• get to know new people and take a peek into their thoughts, so you can get new ideas and knowledge.

Is it hard to get above avantage? We think it is not, the implementation of the twitter-technology is a small change on your intranet. The most work will be to explain the value of the knowlegde network and the reason to twitter to your employees. But the most of them are using networkplatforms outside the company, so why would the change be big?

In the above situation, twitter is used as a social software but then applied in a business context. What are your thoughts on this subject? We would love to hear!
This post was made by @hendri_ende and @robberthomburg

Can twitter support social structure in organizations?

The basic idea of twittering is sharing social information with your friends. An example is hyves where you can let know what is on your mind by 140 characters (this is called 'wat doe je'). All your friends can read and react to your short social/emotional message. This is more or less the same on twitter.

But will this also work in our organisations? Will a worker ever put his social message in a Tweet and share it with the whole company? Does the rest of the company care about the Tweet of the salesmanager? Maybe you have some doubts, but realise that the mental model in the organisation is that employees every day have their CCC ‘coffee-corner-chat’. And as we all know if you are seeking for the right information or you are preparing a decision in a meeting, the first thing to do is triple C.

And because employees are known with sharing things with each other in their mental model. We expect that supporting this habit by Twitter, people will use twitter from day one. Maybe you should rename it to coffee-chat, so everybody know what twitter is. For example: I went on a biking trip this weekend and hit a tree. Monday morning in my coffee-chat I put the words ‘I’am hurt by a three’. Later that day Robbert sees me in the restaurant and asked me how I’am doing.

One of the best things about twitter is the possibility to twitter by more features then internet but also SMS of txt! This very simple example shows how the social structure in your company can grow. And yes we hear you thinking: will my people still work and are they going to socialize allday long. Maybe the first two days people are using it like mad. But they will start to be smart about it and only twitter useful stuff. Then your social structure will get stronger. And the positive impact on performance will happen.

So our advise, don’t wait, start today with introducing the digital coffee-chat. This is a great way to enhance the social structure of you company at no cost! A nice video is here from MIT about twitter and ambient intimacythis post is written by hendri and robbert

Twitter for ideasharing

Should you use Twitter in your company to share ideas?

Twitter is about what are you doing today, but what if you are brainstroming and getting ideas? The beginning of a new idea should be short and shared amoung people inside and outside the company. So far Twitter seems to be a good idea. People will react to your ideas or get their own new ideas. This is possible with twitter, you can send messages to people and they can post their own ideas. Ideas occur in all sorts of places, now only form behind a computer. Twitter can do this, allowing you to send text messages!

But, what if I want to read all about one idea, or want to rate an idea of follow up on an idea. This cannot be done with twitter. The thing is for the start of an idea twitter is fantastic, for the second phase of an idea twitter is to simple.

But here is the great part, Twitter is open as all apps should be. Why not combine the simple but great Twitter funcionality and the functions of a site like IdeaFactory or IdeaExchange. Both being based of sites like digg. And start the discussion and rating of an idea over there. All the content about the idea is together and still online. Start an idea on twitter, pass it on to another site when the idea seems good, react to it, rate it and make it! If you make this business idea happen think of me ;-).

This is a great way to start an idea, collaborate on the idea online and share it with people around the globe. this blogpost was made in collaboration with Robbert Homburg

Twitter in the Enterprise?

A recent trend on the internet is Twitter. Twitter enables you to stay up to date with your friends/colleagues with short messages the ‘tweets’. To read more about twitter go to wikipedia (in english or dutch). On twitter you can search for people you know or navigate through profiles and followers. Links are shared in mini format so they don't take up much characters.

More and more attention is given to this service. You can follow Barack Obama on twitter or Frankwatching. But also some politicians in the Netherlands have twitter profiles. Beside the politicians, the marketing people and de techies we see the first companies and magazines are on twitter using it as an RSS feed or to give twitterers discounts.

In our upcoming items we will give some ideas and inspiration if the twitter trend can have value in an enterprise.This post is a co-production with Robbert Homburg

Zoho een potentiële concurrent van sharepoint?

Vele initiatieven zijn er al gelanceerd om online collaboration te ondersteunen. Sommige geslaagd en een lang bestaan gegund, sommige met de life-time van een eendagsvlieg.

Echter met verbazing volg ik Zoho. Zoho weet toch steeds meer en meer collaborations tools bij elkaar te brengen die er toe doen.

De kleuren en de eenvoud op de Zoho-site doen me denken aan Google-apps. Wellicht wordt Zoho wel de potentiële derde hond die er met het been vandoor ging toen de andere twee aan het vechten waren om de gunst van de klant.

Bent u wiki minded?

Wiki is een tool en een begrip in het internetvocabulaire.

De strekking van het begrip c.q. de term is ‘gericht op samenwerking’.
Het tool dat iedereen kent zijn de zijn de internetpagina’s waar een ieder kan publiceren. Een voorbeeld is Wikipedia een digitale encyclopedie die gevuld wordt door iedereen die dat wil.

Wiki's bestormen onze organisaties. De eerste organisaties die de bedrijfsvoering grotendeels doen via een wiki ben ik al tegengekomen. Het heeft hier en daar nog z'n beperkingen, maar informatie gaat als een razende door het bedrijf. En waarom niet.
Waarom nog 3 dagen op de hei zitten en diverse inspraak workshops houden? Stel een wiki ter beschikking en laat iedereen bijdragen aan het plan 2009. Wie durft? Laat het me weten ik ben erg nieuwschierig hoe wiki uw organisatie is.