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in the Enterprise:
Key Debates
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2. "The Real Story"
•Impartial product evaluations for
technology buyers rather than software
buyers,
vendors
•Hard-hitting, critical analysis, debunking
marketing h
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f the truth
•Detailed insights and education based on
real end-user experiences
Product evaluations,
subscriptions, and online
courses at cmswatch.com
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3. Agenda
1. Can social software consistently bring real ROI?
2. Are community managers responsible for ILM?
3. Tools: Platform vs. Suites vs. Best-of-Breed?
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4. Will the social s/w marketplace consolidate?
5. Socialize existing tools or buy social software?
6. Are we overexaggerating risks?
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7. Blogging is passé – vive micro-blogging?
8 Are social rating / ranking systems helpful?
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9. Intranet have a community, or be a community?
10. Other?
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5. 1) Can social software consistently bring real ROI?
YES
• Collaboration and discussion save time… and
time is money
• Customer communities can reduce support
costs and improve customer retention and
• You can avoid expensive investments in
heavyweight, enterprisey tools like portals
NO
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• Social Software systems bring
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real, ongoing expenses
• Most ROI estimates rely on
“Mythical M M th ”
“M thi l Man Months”
• But….is this a fair question?
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6. 2) Are Community Managers responsible for Info Lifecycle Mgmt?
YES NO
• Over time, deleting is as important than • Let the community vet
creating: usability, findability, liability,
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accuracy • Community managers should
nourish; Records managers
• Someone has to do it and records and
it, can clean up
compliance managers don’t understand
social
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7. Platforms ECM “Suites” Community
Wikis Blogs Niche Public
Source: http://cmswatch.com/Social/Vendors/
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8. 4) Socialize existing applications or invest in Social Software?
Socialize
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• Let people communicate and
collaborate where they already
work and hang out
• Don’t create new silos of
information
Social Software
• SAP et. al. suck at social
t l k t i l
software
• People need clear “spaces” to
spaces
get social
• Serendipity factor
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9. Will the Social Software marketplace “consolidate”
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10. 5) Blogging is passé – vive Micro-blogging!
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11. Blogging is passé?
YES
• Tweeting is more spontaneous, easier
• Character limits keep people “on point”
• You can f find intra-enterprise services
• Most blogging is gratuitous anyway
• Twitter is cool -- and cool is important…
NO
• Blogging offers narratives….and
narrative matters
• Twitter can be just as gratuitous,
masturbatory,
masturbatory & lame as the worst blogs
• Blog conversations are more organized,
feel more persistent
• RSS is an effective filter
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12. 6) Are social ratings/ranking helpful?
YES
• All filtering is useful; Need to sort out
what’s “best”
• Evidence of real return on e-commerce
e commerce
and support sites
• Options for passive / active inferencing –
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putting metrics to work
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• Voting brings democratic processes
NO
• Requires a critical mass for statistical
meaning
• Known to get abused within and beyond
the firewall
• Is best for the crowd also best for you?
• Systems that promoted “most” items
create a self fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfilling
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13. 7) Should your Intranet have a community or be a community?
Have
• Community/social software not
feature-complete for web
publishing
• You need to be clear about
what s formal
what’s “formal” enterprise content
and what isn’t
Be
• All communication i social
i ti is i l
• Don’t create new silos; integrate
enterprise and social content and
trust the community to know the
difference
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14. 8) Does Age Really Matter in Social Computing?
Source: AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Market Intelligence, 2008
Key Issues
• Adoption vs. Enthusiasm
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• Does consumer web
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automatically cross over to
enterprise?
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15. THANK YOU
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