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Expert Profile: Craig Hepburn

1.) What is your name?

Craig Hepburn

2.) Who are you and what are you doing?

I am currently Director of Social Media Strategy at Open Text focusing mainly on how some of the worlds largest companies are adopting social media strategies for their business both internally for collaboration but also externally facing for their partners and customers. My role is to develop the business use cases and help these companies implement social media solutions.

3.) How did you get to the E2.0 topic?

I have over 10 years experience in web development and online business where I have helped some of the worlds largest companies such as ...

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PR, Social Networking, and the traditional business/agency

The older the profession, the less likely they are to make great use of social networking. Although clearly demonstrates that not everyone has a problem with social networking. :-)

Okay, come on, it’s Saturday morning and I couldn’t resist.

I was excited to chat with Abbie Fink at HMA Public Relations.  Abbie Fink is Vice President and General Manager at HMA, and we discussed her insights on the strugglesbusinesses/agencies face around the use of social strategies.

Q. First, who is HMA?

A. “HMA Public Relations is a full-service marketing communications and public relations firm. We are based in Phoenix and are part of an international network of independently owned and operated firms (www.prgn.com).”

Q. ...

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Up in the Air: Worlds Colliding


I have a few issues keeping me from writing here as often as I would like:

  • Luke (3) – he likes to stay up late
  • Abby (4) – she likes to wake me up early
  • My day job – it occurs between the Abby and Luke encounters
  • The Colts Keep Winning, and I keep watching and attending their victories! Not a bad problem to have.
  • Good Business Practices:  Based on the stage on my Enterprise 2.0-related effort right now, I am limited in what I can discuss aside from broad generalities about Enterprise 2.0 as a practice or stuff having nothing to do with work. Over time that will change a little bit and should result in more valuable experience for me to share.
  • Writer’s block: I’m not great at pontificating about ...
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Office Depot Deceptive Advertising

For being a netbook-fan I admit I am in the market for a super-slim lightweight laptop.  The market has evolved, the current slimbooks are only slightly more expensive than netbooks, and I find the 13.3” screen size an ideal compromise between portability and straining my eyes with the tiny screens.  So I was quite happy to see what I consider a good deal: a HP DM3 for $449 @ Office Depot.

office depot dm3

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Enterprise 2.0 Expert Profile: Anthony Poncier

1.) What is your name?

Anthony Poncier, I’m based in Paris, France.

2.) Who are you and what are you doing?

I’m a management and organization consultant, specialized in Management 2.0 (impact of social media on management, processes…). I’am also a blogger, on those topics (http://poncier.org/blog).

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'Pain chains' and the IT Devil's Triangle

The IT Devil’s Triangle binds together enterprise customers, technology vendors, and system integrators in an unholy trinity that leads directly to failed projects. These failures are fraught with “pain chains,” a term used by Altimeter Group partner and enterprise strategy analyst, Ray Wang, to describe clusters of difficulty that cause angst to IT customers and their line of business counterparts.

The pain chains concept recognizes that the organizational impact of IT failure is multi-dimensional. Similarly, the Devil’s Triangle states that broad, rather than narrow, conflicting agendas among the trinity of customers, vendors, and integrators cause failure.

The shared themes of ...

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Is Collaborating, Listening, or Engaging Always a Good Thing?

Before reading on ask yourself this questions, is collaborating, engaging, or listening always a good thing?

Collaboration can take many forms either within a company or between a company and it’s customers and prospects.  However, as Morten Hansen says in his book Collaboration, there is no point in collaborating just for collaboration’s sake.  The whole point of any type of collaboration is always to meet a business need or objective.  This means that if you have departments or individuals collaborating but you aren’t seeing your business objectives met that there is potentially a problem.  The key to collaboration is action and this applies as much to Enterprise 2.0 as it does to external facing social media ...

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2.0 Adoption in the Enterprise - The Before

Thanks everyone for tuning into our first webinar in our four-part series  The deck is now up on Slideshare, but I thought I'd post it here.  The recording of the demo will be posted shortly.

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Expert Profile: Jon Husband

1.) What is your name?

My name is Jon Husband, and I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2.) Who are you and what are you doing?

I am a middle-aged man who considers himself an observer of human systems and human behaviour, a systems thinker, a listener and facilitator, and a techno-anthropologist.

In less fancy language, I am a strategy, organizational design and change researcher and consultant.     ...

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Can your Broker be your Facebook Friend?

Having spent many years in a financial services company, I understand the culture of a highly regulated industry.  We in the US regulate many industries — it is a reflection of our values.  We regulate air travel because we want fly safely.  We regulate pharmaceuticals because we want our medicines to be safe.  Safety is a high value in our society. We regulate the financial services industry too. I’m told FinServ is more regulated than any other industry — at least in the US. I guess this means money is an even higher value.

We want our marketplaces to be safe and fair. Regulation seeks to accomplish this with protections that prevent brokers from, say, conning people out of their money. For ...