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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking at a management workshop of Bank Hapoalim about Enterprise 2.0 and IBM’s experience with implementing such tools and solutions.
I made some changes to my slides after the presentation, and posted at slideshare.net/dvirreznik.
Love to hear comments and feedback.
Today I had the privilege of speaking at a management workshop of one of the largest banks in Israel. The workshop was held at the bank’s education center, 30min outside of Tel Aviv, with a beautiful view of the ocean. This was one of the cases that I came to lecture through the community. The management workshop was given by an outside consulting company, that heard me speak at a recent conference. Another proof of the power of social media.
I was told to present ‘the IBM story’ of E2.0 adoption (Web 2.0 goes to work), meaning what we’re doing, internally, to foster knowledge sharing and participation. I took couple of my presentations, consolidated slides, made some adjustments, added the IBM angle, and I was ready to go.
The population was mixed in age, all in managerial positions at the bank, youngest one in the room was me 🙂 Only when I asked people if they knew what twitter is, I realized that most people had no idea what Web 2.0 is all about, not to mention E2.0. That’s when I decided to skip some slides and explain over a whiteboard what we’re talking about…
I won’t tell the entire 90min presentation here, only summize with this:
At the beginning of my presentation a lady asked me what’s the benefit in all that user generated content (blogs, comments, wikis, articles, etc) if most of them are garbage (or below average), and why should any organization consider adopting such tools. At the end of the presentation, she asked me what’s the top 7 blogs to follow. And she’s also the one responsible for the title of this post. Folks, change is possible! even in a ‘traditional’ business as a bank.
As for the slides: I had to make some ad-hoc changes during the workshop, so the slides will be posted later this week.
BTW – if you haven’t subscribed to Jeremiah Owyang by now, shame on you!
His posts are right on the mark, and his knowledge in social media is infinite!
Only today we were talking at the workshop about FSS examples for social media (ROI/VOI), and there’s a list availble. We also talked about Gen Y and why they care if a bank has IM or a facebook thing, and here’s another post.
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Monday morning at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston was a day Microsoft will probably want to forget: MOSS 2007 was hammered by Lotus Connections, as an enterprise social software solution, out-of-the-box.
IBM really did put on a great show and demo at Enterprise 2.0, led by Suzanne Minassianminassian@us.ibm.com and Heidi Votawheidi_votaw@us.ibm.com. Their preparation and presentation of Lotus Connections were superb !
Earlier today I attended and spoke at KM Conference, in Tel Aviv. At first glance, I didn’t like what I heard – the speakers referred to MOSS as ‘the best portal solution in Israel and WW’. Folks, MOSS has two distinctive pieces: Sharepoint team services and document sharing (WSS) and Sharepoint Portal. All the 3rd party vendors (which sponsored the conference) enhanced the team collaboration and document sharing. MOSS does have a big piece of market share, especially in Israel, but organizations often use its team collaboration piece, thinking they have a full-featured portal solution.
Here’s a short selection of what went down this week in Boston:
CIO.com: Enterprise 2.0 Faceoff: Microsoft Lags Behind IBM in Social Software
While both vendors showed their products could integrate with existing e-mail systems (especially e-mail systems that they sell, such as Notes and Exchange), IBM’s Lotus Connections looked, at minimum, a year or more ahead of SharePoint in its social computing capabilities out of the box.
CMS Watch: IBM-Microsoft shoot-out at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
IBM came off looking better for various reasons. They fielded a more focused demo team — never to be underestimated — but also because Connections has some slick, Ajax interfaces, and SharePoint does not. Ajax does not necessarily bring better usability, but done right, it can simplify complex interfaces.
ITSinsider: First day surprise at Enterprise 2.0 Boston
The first one, Social Computing Platforms: IBM and Microsoft revealed an unlikely sturdy competitor in the sea of terrific startups that are competing in this new arena. IBM, yes, IBM demonstrated a competitive product. I had never seen such a thorough demo of Lotus Connections. It had a terrific UI, more 2.0 features than I could even keep up with, and the woman who was taking us through the demo, clearly “got it.”
agile in atlanta: IBM shows Microsoft that social computing is about the people
Apparently Microsoft focused on email and document management, which did not wow the crowd. IBM got points for talking about how social networking is about the people.
The Intelligent Enterprise: IBM-Microsoft shootout at Enterprise 2.0
IBM came off looking better for various reasons. They fielded a more focused demo team — never to be underestimated — but also because Connections has some slick, Ajax interfaces, and SharePoint does not. Ajax does not necessarily bring better usability, but done right, it can simplify complex interfaces.
The twitter message quoted here belongs to Lawrence Liu, Microsoft’s SharePoint Senior Technical Product Manager, which sums up nicely the difference between IBM and Microsoft, in the enterprise social software space.
To follow up my previous post today on the same subject, IBM updated its ‘Web 2.0 Goes to Work‘ website, with recent success stories and best practices, RSS feed to Web 2.0 blog, recent news, Web 2.0 TV and more.
Here’s the link: ibm.com/software/info/web20
There’s also a twitter to follow, if you’re in to following people/stuff: @web20work
Seen first on The Connections Blog.
Just wrapped up my presentation at KM Annual Conference (another one), where I got 20min (but took 30) to talk about Enterprise 2.0, or ‘I want a facebook thing. I think‘.
The event was more about traditional knowledge management (aka – documents), and how to maintain a document library within your internal portal, so my Enterprise 2.0 portion was unique and different. I like to be unique.
I adopted some tips from Ed and Alan and came with Jeans and a buttoned shirt (short sleeves – it’s Israel), instead of my usual dress-code. Being the last speaker before lunch is not easy, especially where you consider who came before me. If you happen to follow me on twitter, you know I was up with some fierce competition, as all the speakers before me, and sponsors outside, were MOSS/WSS/Sharepoint integrators. One hilarious moment came when a presenter took the stage to demo a solution over Powerpoint 2007 – but the main hall laptop had Office XP.. :-)) The laptop refused to open the Office 2007 file. LOL
The important thing, I ROCKED !!
And mentioned how IBM beat Sharepoint in Enterprise 2.0 face-off earlier this week.
And gathered some business cards for future opportunities.
I talked about social computing in general (what is facebook), then dived into Lotus Connections (I want something like this…) with references from Ernest & Young and Sprint, and finished with three first steps for piloting/adopting (COOL!! How to get started?).
With little time to spare I didn’t talked about the barriers to adoption, but Enterprise 2.0 Conference already covered this in one of their discussions.
You can view the embed slides below, or download from slideshare.net/dvirreznik.
The slides are in Hebrew – will prepare an English version over the weekend.
