Google has longed struggled when it comes to social media. It is not from lack of trying on their part. In the case of Buzz and Wave, they could have easily become key players in the Enterprise 2.0 model. However, as will all innovative companies, the art of the startup is all about having and idea, likely failing, but learning from those failures and applying it to the next round of innovation. I suspect that the fundamental elements of Wave will be very much integrated into Google Docs and Mail with Buzz becoming their core notification engine.
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???Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven???t found it yet, keep looking, and don???t settle. As with all matters of the heart,???you???ll know when you find it.??? ??? Steve Jobs
Never has so many people been given the tools and networks to share their vision with the world. We are living in what is clearly not an age of revolution but a renewed age of renaissance. For a revolution implies that barriers exist and social media has provided a degree of transparency that allows us to float above the walled gardens of our past.
A team driven by desire and a driven leader will only be as powerful as the vision they share.
Nancy does a great job at isolating the fundamental problem of past Knowledge Management practices. In my opinion the key shift has been from moving from out-of-flow capture to in-flow capture of knowledge. By leveraging social media toolsets within our daily work we are incorporating this knowledge in real time as we are working as opposed to secondary tasks of documenting what was discussed or explained.
There are 4 hallmarks of a collaborative team:
- Shared mission: Without a common goal, it is nearly impossible to form an effective team.
- Mutual respect: This is not about who’s better. The team members must not be questioning each others competence or trying to demonstrate their own.
- Trust: Mutual respect enables trust that allows for frank discussions and debates, focusing on the issues, not the people.
- Commitment to continual improvement and to each other.
I believe that this quote sums it up best “Once we’ve replaced the idea of perfection with aspiration, we allow our corporate selves to be more transparent”.
With lowered cost of entry must come a lowered fear of engagement. True collaboration must come from a emergent conversation of peers that share a common value and goal. For far to long we have discounted and as such shelved the hidden potential of the remaining elements of a corporate infrastructure.
Presumably, its recommendation technology will be used to present LinkedIn users with relevant content, such as personalized news and other updates, and what executives in similar careers are reading and doing on the network.
This is going to be a great addition to the LinkedIn infrastructure. One of the largest issues I had with LinkedIn is that it was still very much based on the classic search model. With the addition of mSpoke, I believe that LinkedIn is clearly recognizing the need for a proper discovery engine within their infrastructure. A discovery model is a core element of fully leveraging their 3 degrees of connectivity to not only promote fresh content to emerging silos, but also previously unknown content providers to your social network.