How do we get and keep more women in technology-related careers? How do we increase the number of women creators, makers, designers, and coders? Why not just add more women to the mix, and go fr...
What level of change do you really want from social business? Do you want a little bit, or a whole lot? Do you want process improvement? Or, Do you want organizational transformation? Social tech...
Why doesn’t every piece of cake come with two forks? There’s no fixed reason why the cake can only come with one fork. But, having only one fork is an obstacle to sharing, even for the most g...
Social Technologies — all those different tools we talk about as ‘social media’ — are creating the opportunity for a social change trifecta. Social technologies are making it possible for...
Organizations can 'grow social' through 4 different paths, driven by technology, social business, collective values, and 'product' resonance. Two of these paths are more likely than the others to...
You can make the process of becoming a Social Organization a little easier if you start by socializing your intranet. Why? Because the shared, cohering nature of your intranet makes ‘social’ ...
What’s the best strategy for making your organization more social? Where do you start to transform your systems, so that you can transform your organization? Many social media experts suggest t...
The move of social business systems into work organizations exacerbates a tension that’s built into every idea-intensive workplace. Idea-intensive workplaces ask employees to contribute not jus...
“Systems of engagement.” Isn’t that an evocative term? The minute I read it, I knew that the term “systems of engagement” captured something important–but what? I searched the web, I ...
I’m getting a bit weary of talking about “women” and having some people assume that I’m only talking about “women”. These aren’t the same. Recognize that when I use the term “wo...