“Collaboration” has been used to categorise a wide variety of products. Even with a range of products this broad, I have found seven attributes that separate winning collaboration products from also-rans…

In response to the explosion of use of social media over the past 12 months, many leaders are developing formal Social Media Polices to guide their staff in approved use of these tools inside the enterprise. By using bottom-up design principles, leaders can create Social Media Policies that productively encourage creativity—without risking their enterprise’s mission and reputation.

If you simply create a standalone community, you will only create a place where your stakeholders socialize. While this is nice, it will not create a large return on your investment. If you want to maximize the return on investment in your business community, you need to embed it into the your entire enterprise. Here’s how…

Over the last year, I sat down with experts from four different health care organizations (across the US and Europe) to come up with ideas for social media business services that would provide immediate value. This is the first service we came up with. It uses social media – in a very controlled fashion – to make it faster and easier to enroll subjects into Clinical Trials…

Healthcare is an incredibly collaborative sector—making it an ideal candidate to realize value through use of social networking. However, it is also one of the most sensitive sectors in terms of its management of information. This does not make use of social networking impossible; it just requires more creativity in how this technology is applied to create value in a regulatory compliant manner. This post begins a series that will outline four ideas for low-risk, high-value Health 2.0 Business Services.

This is my first in a series of 10 posts about how to build effective Social Media communities for business (and government). My first point is that is important to BEGIN with the understanding that Social Media does NOT “change everything,” — it simply adds several new channels for you to interact with your stakeholders…