http://b-spirit.com Bringing innovative spirit to your business Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:16:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A June survey released by Facetime, makers of a gateway appliance for managing Web 2.0 applications, revealed the growing popularity of social networking applications in the workplace. Out of 1199 survey respondents, all IT professionals, there were more who felt that social networks played an important role in the business ... http://b-spirit.com/2009/07/02/a-growing-acceptance-of-social-networking-in-the-workplace/ The top CEOs in the country appear to be mostly absent from the social media community. That's the result from research we conducted over the past several weeks. We looked at Fortune's 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs to determine how many were using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, ... http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/29/fortune-100-ceos-are-social-media-slackers/ Want to see good examples of corporate blogs? Check out the blogs of the Blog Council. This site includes blogs by Coke, Cisco, General Electric, Intel, and the Mayo Clinic. Via Alltop News and Updates. http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/24/examples-of-corporate-blogs/ Via Emilie Ogez News. http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/23/wouldnt-you-want-dave-talking-about-your-blank/ How organisations can harness the power of Web 2.0?View more OpenOffice presentations from Amit Ranjan. http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/23/how-organisations-can-harness-the-power-of-web-20/ Via le bloc-notes de Bertrand Duperrin: "... Et pourtant la fracture demeure. Les outils sont accessibles, leur manipulation aisée. Que manque-t-il ? L'usage et le sens. N'importe qui peut publier sur twitter. Mais si vous faites le test sur une population test, quel pourcentage vous répondra : "d'accord mais…à quoi ça sert ... http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/21/web-20-de-la-fracture-numerique-en-fracture-sociale/ Réseaux sociaux et Réputation - Enquête DeloitteView more Microsoft Word documents from Aref Jdey. Via AdsVark. http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/20/deloitte-survey-social-network-and-reputational-risk-in-the-workplace/ "Since their early days, weblogs have been envisioned as a prototype technology for enabling grass-roots knowledge management. However, while experiments with blogging are underway in many businesses, research that could inform them is limited. In this dissertation early adopters of weblogs are studied to develop an understanding of uses of ... http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/14/passion-at-work-blogging-practices-of-knowledge-workers/ Andrew McAfee:I've had for some time now the vague sense that the iPhone, Twitter, Gmail, Googling, Facebook, Wikipedia, Delicious, and other runaway successes are trying to tell us something about how we want to use technology in our lives and in our work, and if we enterprise technologists listen carefully ... http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/11/toward-a-pattern-language-for-enterprise-20/ A poll of 524 white-collar workers commissioned by fin­ancial comms agency FD has found worryingly high levels of employee dissatisfaction facing businesses bosses as they adjust to the economic downturn. YouGov found that a minority of employees (44 per cent) felt their CEO showed strong, decisive leadership and only 28 per ... http://b-spirit.com/2009/06/07/firms-failing-at-internal-communication/