Coups de coeur dans les nuages http://isayel.net Isabelle Ayel posterous.com Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:23:29 -0700 Open the walls or Howto be 2.0 part three #e20 #e20s (en Español también) http://isayel.net/open-the-walls-or-howto-be-20-part-three-e20 http://isayel.net/open-the-walls-or-howto-be-20-part-three-e20
...mis llaves no abren todas las puertas

...mis llaves no abren todas las puertas (Photo credit: marcelo moltedo: " En el pais de los sueños...)

"Open the walls" connects directly to Dr Sugata Mitra's bright idea to put a computer into a hole in a wall in New Dehli slums. Have companies and persons (even me) really understood all the consequences of this hole in the wall?

  •  All informations are there, under your fingertips on the keyboard of your computer, no scarcity
  •  Copy-paste beyond the legal battle is a fabulous source of creativity (remix, re-creation)
  •  Everyone can connect with everyone on this planet (even the barrier of different languages is no more so high)
  •  Sharing data drives to collaboration and collaboration to knowledge and added value.


Controls of the use of Internet inside the company is certainly done with the best intentions but the result is a restriction in knowledge and data information with the side-effect of a decrease in creativity (no exchange no creativity).

More and more businesses across all sectors of the economy move to the web and here are the Customers. The Internet gives a great opportunity to collaborate, to attend, to reward for ...nuts. Are we really obliged to put a wall between the departments of a company or even worst between the company and its customers?

Example in Marketing (source:http://gigaom.com/2012/03/17/marketing-is-the-next-big-money-sector-in-technology/)
"Social networks are providing a new source of demographic data that, combined with Facebook’s Open Graph, offer marketers a new treasure trove of information."

More : it is time to give a kick-off to the work made inside companies, sweapping away "process" and focusing on data. Process are for machines, the real treasure is the persons linked to these data. Social networks, social plateforms, Apps, all connected electronic devices are collecting these personalized data. Are we ready to compute-analize them to deliver the right service at the right moment?

En Español

"Abren las paredes" remite directamente a la genial idea del Dr Sugata Mitra de poner un ordenador en un hueco en la pared que delimitaba la chabola de New Dehli en India. ¿Hemos de verdad mesurado las consecuencias como empresas, como personas, de este hueco en la pared?

  •  Toda la información, el conocimiento (desde lo más antiguo a lo hace 5 minutos) está a distancia de nuestros manos, tecleando nuestros ordenadores conectados a la red: no hay escasez.
  •  Copiar-Pegar màs aya de la batalla legal se convierte en una poderosa fuente de creatividad (remix, re-crear)
  •  Todo el mundo habla con todo el mundo a través del planeta (ni siquiera la barrera de los idiomas parece tan alta)
  •  Compartir datos lleva a colaborar y la colaboración al conocimiento y al valor añadido.


El control del uso de la Red dentro de las empresas parte de buenas intenciones (seguridad, productividad, protección de datos...) pero el resultado está peor que los peligros. Las empresas "encerradas" restringen el conocimiento, la información extraidas de los datos disponibles en la Red y desencadenan una perdida de creatividad porque sin intercambios no habra creatividad.

Màs y màs las empresas de todos los sectores se ponen en Internet y allí están los Clientes. La Red es una grande oportunidad para cualquier actividad de colaborar, de atender, de gratificar...¡gratis! ¿De verdad estamos realmente obligados a poner paredes entre departamentos de una misma empresa? ¿O peor aún paredes entre la empresa y el cliente?

Màs: Podría ser el momento de dar un empuje al trabajo echo dentro de las empresas, dejando de lado los "procesos" y enfocando sobre los datos. Los procesos son para las maquinas, el verdadero tesoro de las empresas està en las personas que maneján los datos. Las Redes Sociales, las plataformas sociales, los "Apps", todas las maquinas conectadas a la red colectán datos personalizados. ¿Estamos listos para "analizar" todo ese material y proveer el servicio (producto) adecuado en el momento idoño?

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1656071/20111103_isavatar_left.png http://posterous.com/users/10EhTeliOmR Isabelle Ayel isayel Isabelle Ayel Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:30:00 -0800 Linking information or Howto be 2.0 part two #e20s #e20 (en español también) http://isayel.net/linking-information-or-howto-be-20-part-two-e http://isayel.net/linking-information-or-howto-be-20-part-two-e
English: Sample of creating wiki-links. Sloven...

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As a wiki-early adopter I am looking at blogs with wariness. On my point of view Blogs (Posterous included...) are not collaborative tools (even with the comments part) and are linear content silos. 

Linear content silo means: 

  •  posts and comments are stocked like a sky-crapper building with only one lift to go from one floor to another one. 
  •  the vast majority of the posts are links free. Some clever guys are linking their new posts with old ones, to increase SEO... 

For whom are you writing flat content? Is linear content written for the web, for the "social-web" or for printing? 

Is your brain a rhyzome or a "sky-crapper building"? Is your brain more effective than a strutured data base? Are you printing contents before reading? 

What if we try to write for the "social-web", for all the persons who are sharing knowledge, practices and howto, adding value to information. How we will achieve this? Linking all what we can because it is the easyest thing to do to enrich contents and start the rhyzome which can leverage creativity. Wiki is a great booster to link everything because: 

  •  you need to make a "link" to create content at the very beginning of the wiki. 
  •  as soon as your write in a wiki you are able to transform every word in link and this link becomes a new content if you want. 
  •  all the links in a wiki are like "tags" that accelerate all your searches and this is what the desperate worker1.0 is dreaming for: no more directories and folders just key words to go straight to the point of interest. 

What is your benefits to link information: 

  1.  you will free you from flat archiving which drives to a complete mess in your personal computer and in the offices. 
  2.  you will use "key words" and search engines which will increase your productivity and your creativity. 
  3.  you will be in tune with your brain which will free space for your knowledge work.

More: How may of you are using Tomboy on a daily basis?

Are you ready to link everything you can? The next step to be 2.0 is : Open the walls

 

In Spanish

Desde mi punto de vista de wiki-asesora, considero los blogs con poca indulgencia. Blogs (Posterous incluso) no son plataformas colaborativas (incluso cuando los comentarios son aceptados) y siguen siendo contenedores de contenidos lineales. 

Eso significa: 

  • que todos los posts y comentarios están accumulandose como plantas de un edificio rasca-cielos donde solo tendriamos un ascensor para ir de planta a planta. 
  • que la inmensa mayoria de los posts no tienen ningúno enlace (interno o externo). Algunos más "friki" que otros enlazan palabras con antiguos posts suyos para mejorar el SEO... 

¿Para qué están echo los contenidos lineales? ¿Están escritos para la Web, para la web social o para la impresora? 

¿Cómo es su mente? ¿Cómo un rizoma o cómo un "rasca-cielos"?¿Fucionà mejor su mente o una base de datos estructurados? ¿Estàn imprimiendo los contenidos de la web antes de leerles? 

Y si de una vez por todas nos poniamos a escribir para la web social, para la web que comparte contenidos para añadir valor a la información. ¿Que hariamos? Pondriamos "enlaces" porque es la manera la màs sensilla para enriquecer el contenido, empezar la construcción del rizoma que podra dar lugar a la creatividad. La wiki es una grande fabrica de enlaces: 

  • Necesita un primero enlace para poder escribir su primero contenido 
  • A empezar a escribir en la wiki uno puede transformar cualquier palabra en un enlace que a su vez dara oportunidad para escribir nuevos contenidos. 
  • Cada enlace en una wiki funciona como un "tag" y agiliza las búsquedas. Eso es el sueño de cada trabajador 1.0 : deshacerse de los archivos y folletos y con palabras claves ir directamente al nodo de la cuestión. 

En fín ¿que serian para Ustedes los beneficios de enlazar información? 

  1. Liberarse de los archivos lineales que provocán el mayor desorden en las oficinas que hubo desde que empezaron las oficinas de administración. 
  2. Entrar en el rico mundo de los "tags", palabras claves y buscadores que aumentàn la productividad y generán creativitad. 
  3. Experimentar una sintónia perfecta con su cerebro que dara espacio al trabajo sobre el conocimiento. 

¿Esta Usted listo para enlazar todo lo que se puede? Próxima etapa para ser 2.0 : Abrir los muros.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1656071/20111103_isavatar_left.png http://posterous.com/users/10EhTeliOmR Isabelle Ayel isayel Isabelle Ayel Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:07:09 -0800 Copy-paste or how to be 2.0 - part one #e20s #e20 (también en español) http://isayel.net/copy-paste-or-how-to-be-20-part-one-e20s-e20 http://isayel.net/copy-paste-or-how-to-be-20-part-one-e20s-e20
Engaged in the Enterprise 2.0 debate, taking part of the E20Summit in 2010 and 2012, I was surprised how the discussions were about concepts,designs and processes instead of personal attitudes. Are people in charge of designing the Enterprise 2.0 themselves 2.0? Are they acting in a 2.0 manner? How is it to be 2.0? So I will try to define 3 basic attitudes which for me are essential to behave in a 2.0 manner. Hope you will add some more! 

Improving administration productivity into organisations is often (too often) getting rid of duplicated data. 

Duplicated data are evil: error in the duplicate process, lost of time duplicating, people working on slightly different data, bad performance...Wait: are these arguments from nowadays or from the last century when paper and pencils where the only tools in administrations? 

In 2012 organisations have plenty of computers. What represent for you, knowledge worker, to copy and paste? 
  • you need a nanosecond of work on your proper device to copy-paste the data you have selected (not the whole data base supported by IT departement) 
  •  data are copied and pasted with no error, the computer is stupid 
  •  your proper device is under your control: you are responsible of the data you use and how you manage them. 
  •  you will cope with the performance of your device if it happens to have too heavy data. 
What are your benefits to manage your data on your proper device (or in the clouds, doesn't matter because it is still under your responsability) 
  1.  you add what ever you want to the basic data, you know what you need 
  2.  you rely on...you and this is a big booster to manage the data as well as you can. 
  3.  redundancy is key for creativity and serendipity (see the fashion industry >http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
  4.  you signed a contract with your company in which you agree to use all the company data for the sake of your company business. This is the rule of your game, you are playing it to be rewarded.
So in my opinion : Duplication of data inside organisation is not a productivity issue. It is a "security issue" which drives us to "how to design a non-controlled organisation, a fenceless organisation?"

More about "appification of enterprise services" 

Next to come : Link-link-link or How to be 2.0 - Part Two 

Versión en Español 
Desde un par de años me interesa los cambios dentro de las organizaciones debido al uso extensivo y intensivo de las nuevas tecnologías, es decir la famosa web2.0. Tube la oportunidad de participar en el evento E20Summit en el 2010 y en el 2012.Este evento reune grandes empresas (BASF, Alcatel Lucent, Renault, JC Decault, Allianz, T-Mobile etc...) y consultorias, proveedores de la web2.0. Durante esos últimos eventos se hablo mucho de conceptos, diseños y procesos y casi nada de actitudes.
Me pregunto: ¿está la gente dentro de esas companias con un espiritu 2.0 de verdad? ¿Actuá esa gente de forma 2.0 en el día día? ¿Qué significá estar 2.0? Propongo darles mi forma de ver el ser2.0 con tres actitudes basicas que diseñan el trabajo 2.0. De ante mano les agradesco sus aportaciones en cuanto a las actitudes que definen el trabajo cuotidiano 2.0. 

 Copiar y pegar o ¿Cómo ser 2.0? - Primera Parte 

No es broma : cuando se trata de mejorar la productividad en la administración de las empresas, de inmediato empieza la caza a la "duplicación de datos". 

Los datos duplicados son el mal absoluto en las empresas: es una fuente de errores, una perdida de tiempo, una fuente de disfases, un empeoramiento de los processos...¿Quién se pregunta si esos argumentos proceden de ahora o del siglo pasado cuando no había que papel y bolígrafo para cumplir con el trabajo de administración? 

En el año 2012 las oficinas son repletas de ordenadores. ¿Qué significa para Usted, trabajador de la Información, copiar y pegar datos? 
  •  un nanosegundo de trabajo con su propia maquina para copiar y pegar un dato que Usted habra escogido cuidadosamente (fuera de la pesada base de datos del departamento de informática) 
  •  los datas estaran copiados sin ningún errores porque los ordenadores son estupidos. 
  •  Su propio ordenador está bajo su control: los datos y la manera de gestionarles en su ordenador están bajo su responsabilidad. 
  •  Usted afrontara valiosamente todas las consecuencias de detener allí datos que pueden rebajar la agilidad de su equipo. 
¿Qué seran sus beneficios de detener datos de su elección en su propío equipo? (o en la nube, no importa si se quedán bajo su responsabilidad) 
  1.  Usted tendra la posibilidad de añadirles trozos de informaciones, deacuerdo con sus necesidades y no la necesidades que alién habra decidido en su lugar. 
  2.  Usted depende de ...usted mismo y eso le da un empujon para gestionar lo mejor posible los datos que Usted mismo ha seleccionado. 
  3.  La redondancia es la base de la creatividad y del "serendipity": vease por favor el ejemplo de la moda que es una maquina para copiar añadendo pequeñas cosas que renuevan los productos al infinito. (http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html). 
  4.  Con su contrato laboral en la mano Usted tiene obligación (el gusto...) de usar esos datos por el crecimiento de la companía (y su propío crecimiento). 
Conclusión (no definitiva): la duplicación de datos dentro de las organizaciones NO es un problema de productividad. Es un problema de seguridad, de propiedad, lo que nos lleva a la grande pregunta que tendran que afrontar las empresas del siglo 21 :¿Cómo gestionar una organización "des-controlada", sin barreras? 

Próxima etapa para llegar a ser2.0 : "Enlaza-Enlaza-Enlaza"

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As an Ambassador of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris on February 7-8,2012, I am scooping (reading-selecting-sharing) lot of posts about the so called "social business" or "Enterprise 2.0". 

Most of these readings are exhorting "management 1.0" to become more "2.0 oriented", which consists mainly to move from hierarchy management to network management. You take a department in a company, you engage people in this department to work with new social technology, arguing that sharing knowledge is pushing productivity and work done! Companies are still working with the same processes for one century and they just add technologies or separated platforms of networking. Is this changing the way enterprise are profitable? Is this "social business"? 

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Social business is about re-thinking the processes in all parts of the enterprise on a bottom-up conversation base. As a wiki expert I am frustrated to see companies relegating wiki as a management project tool. What if a wiki will manage the finance department or the human ressources or the customers relationships. This is not a fantasy, it is just possible and desirable. Why? 

- wiki is social, every user has the same "weight" and contribute in his expertise area, knowing-learning from others. 

- wiki is a continuous building process. We will not have a one century wiki for finances for example. People who are working with will change it and adapt it in a continuous momentum. 

- wiki is agile: low apprenticeship, low cost, high potencial. 

- wiki is active-knowledge. Engage employees to use the data as they need it. (see "opendata" results) 

- wiki is customizable at low cost 

- wiki can deal with all types of data. 

- wiki can support unstructured data or semantic strutured data, all done in a continuous process. 

More employees are engaged more your business is profitable. Outside of the enterprise customers are gaining also power. Do you want a Ford, a car makes by engineers who don't care about how you are living? Or do you want a customizable car, adapted to your life style? How companies with last century processes are managing this breaking new model? Social Enterprise is one step to enlightenment 2.0. No way back. 

Are you on the road to enlightenment 2.0? You disagree that this is the futur of Enterprise: tell us why. 

 

NB: If you are interested in this subject, consider participate to http://www.e20summit.com/ on Feb 7-8,2012 in Paris (special discount code for my readers : "e20ambassadoria" (special discount also for Consultants here)

 

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Gardener Gardening

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In 2008 when I registered to Twitter I filled my bio writing "wiki-gardening". Today I just read this post and truly agree with many points of it. 

No doubt first that " The truth is that Ward Cunningham’s original WikiWikiWeb software predates the popular definition of Web 2.0 by almost 10 years.". Wiki and Web 2.0 are cultural matters based on a disruptive change in our environment. We, human beings need time. This is the big issue because "a wiki succeeds more due to an engaged community than technology". 

At that stage you could ask : "Why a wiki-gardener and not a community manager?". A gardener is supposed to be a lonely person, just concerned by making growing plants which are not talking or communicating with him. In fact the growing of a wiki doesn't need big interactions with the community, the gardener must act with care and discretion to let the participants gain confidence within the tool. "People keep using a wiki when “the content provides real value, and gives the participants a sense of belonging to a community that respects and uses their work.” This is the key point for a wiki-gardener: the value of the content plus the easyness to find it and relate it to other valuable stuff. 

Here we come along with the innovative part of the job. In a society "still locked into a book-based, paged-locked paradigm that has changed little since the dawn of the printing press.”, you, as the gardener, needs to find the path to a new society digital-based and linked-locked. Good luck! 

Please think about this each time you write "digital": "I am not writing in the marble I am writing to link ideas"...maybe could be a good start to make the society 2.0? 

What do you suggest to give away the "page-locked paradigm"?

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A mathematics lecture, apparently about linear...

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In 2004, Salman Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began posting math tutorials on YouTube. Six years later, he has posted more than 2.000 tutorials, which are viewed nearly 100,000 times around the world each day. 

Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org). It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30 million lessons delivered to-date). 

For me the more fascinating in this self-paced tool for education, is its faculty to generate human collaboration: first between students, from advanced ones to less advanced students and from everywhere on the planet, second from the teacher whose position move from repeating the same content again and again to a whole classroom to finding the best way to learn to each student. 

On top of that you will certainly enjoy, as I did when I watched the Ted Talk, all the tracking facilities the software gives to adapt education to each person. 

Do you think it can be extended to Litterature, Philosophy? To poor countries? 

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Back in the the last century children were not allowed to read except for studies. If they were caught reading during the day they were told to stop to "do something more useful". 

Nowadays parents and teachers are fighting hard to get children read books, prohibiting them at the same time to use computer because "it is a waste of time". 

Meanwhile great experts are pointing out that we are in a moment of acceleration of knowledge. Knowledge is for first time in the history of humanity widely accessible at no cost. 

What about giving to children a tablet and let them use it to study at no cost with all knowledge up to date at their fingers tips, wonderful free apps, worldwide collaborative learning aprenticeship? Look at Sugata Mitra experience and remember that it tooks four centuries to the "book" (paper publishing) to be used properly by 80% of the population. 

How long will it take to understand the use of a "computer" (maybe we must change this name) and get the most of it? 

 

PS: Children can still continue to learn how to write with a pencil but like Chinese or Japanese people do caligraphy, like a spiritual exercise. 

* More 
- Some Kaena's (4 ans) favorite IPhone apps: 
Chasethedot-PapiJump-PencilBot-PewPew-TicTacTouch-Shapebuilder lite-Match Très bien-PopMath lite-Basic Math-Animals lite-Toki Tori-PacMac Lite-Brain Free-Fritz-Ocarina-Cerebral challenge-Maths Chats 
 
 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1656071/20111103_isavatar_left.png http://posterous.com/users/10EhTeliOmR Isabelle Ayel isayel Isabelle Ayel Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:21:00 -0800 Giving people creativity on a plate http://isayel.net/giving-people-creativity-on-a-plate http://isayel.net/giving-people-creativity-on-a-plate
The Restaurant El Bulli.

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Ferran Adrià, the famous spanish head Chef, closed his restaurant. He will reopen it in 2014 after transforming it as a foundation. Goals of the foundation will be the conservation of all the work done by the restaurant in the past and to become a center of Creativity.

The motto of the center of Creativity will be : 
- There will be danger, freedom and creativity
- In consequence, there will be no time schedule, no bookings, no routines
"elBulliFoundation : Libertad para crear"

Chefs coming from all over the world will be selected to pass 6 months in the new spanish center and create every day after brainstorming.
Ferran Adriá is looking for new ways of thinking to be creative.

This video is a clear demonstration of how a team can achieve perfection. Each person is doing his best in order that each plate going out of the kitchen is a "0 defect" plate. Something to do with the Japanese master craftsman but in team. Fascinating.

 

To enjoy with the five sense...and here with two, more than nothing!

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P & G's average rate of growth by decade

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"...No matter what you own or are doing in life, without people to share it with, it means nothing."

"...I’ve grown up at the beginning of the social networking phenomenon, it has just begun.  I was a freshman in college when Facebook launched for real.  I am not, nor have I ever been worried about my privacy online.  There are basic things I do not to give myself a bad name online, but it’s not rocket science.  I use Groupon and a bunch of the other social buying sites.  I’ve used CouchSurfers to experience foreign countries through the eyes of real people instead of staying in hotels.  I used Craigslist to find my apartment and all my furniture.  If I want to know something I ask Wikipedia (the crowd).  I’ve been moving many of the things I did own into the cloud.  My music, videos, documents, I am a paperless person.  I don’t really own these things anymore, I share a piece of them through services like NetFlix and Rhapsody, and free sites like Pandora, Grooveshark, Hulu, Boxee, etc..."

"...My generation has a different view on sharing, ownership, and privacy than those before us."

This is one more time a vibrant testimony of the monumental shift that is taking place on this earth now. 
Leigh Drogen, author of this post, adds a little example of how gaining customer giving them for free your experience as a proof of your engagement.

I immediatly connect Leigh Drogen's thoughts with the resumé of Tom Osenton's 2004 book "THE DEATH OF DEMAND: FINDING GROWTH IN A SATURATED GLOBAL ECONOMY" in Wikipedia.

"...Unless new innovation delivers accretive consumption, and/or an accretive appreciation in price, then the U.S. economy will likely grow at about the rate of population growth over the near term - approximately 1 percent."
In Europe, economies are not pulled by internal consumption. We are even more dependent on innovation.

Is collaborative consumption put new life in the business cycle known as "Innovation Saturation"? 
Is "social capital" the new motor of economy?
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My highlight in the cloud this month is NOT some stuff revealed during the Vegas CES these days but something that comes clearer as time goes using social web: humanity is back! 

What does this mean? For example: 
  • Meeting points like Twitter or Facebook catch more attention than TV programms 
  • Social media connect people locally ensuring new meetings in vivo and amazing community feeling 
  • Personal issue are solved by real person directly connected through Twitter or Facebook or Linkedin or Quora (asynchronous reply is better than no reply at all)
  • If you go for shopping, you trust more recommandations from your buddies' internet community than the shops or brands reviews. 
  • You can follow the conversation or let it but you know where to find conversations. 
  • The spiral of silence is brocken. Everybody can add his word, his pictures, his videos "silently" or "loudly" hoping to find his soul mate in a little comment or re-tweet coming from nowhere. For a human being a little comment is a BIG reward. 

Strange isn'it? People who are not yet using social media or blog, are always pointing out how time-consuming is internet. Yes time-consuming as life is time-consuming. Being connected on Internet all day long is living with a larger community than the family circle or the working team. With your internet community you are in front of your weaknesses with an opportunity to outperform them. Some are doing very well because they are looking for those rewards which are coming for sure sooner or later. Rewards are a unique booster for humanity and Internet, web2.0, social business, enterprise 2.0 is about rewards. 

In 2011 what technology is carrying to us: embracing not impressing!
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35 years working with personal computer and what has be done to rethink the way we live with this appendice of our brain?

How have you arranged your table to keep your hands, your shoulders, your back, your neck, your eyes (I will not add your legs but think about them too) in a relax, confortable position during all day long?

This is my husband's new solution. He is really happy with his "flat desktop", so I share it with you. Please tell me YOUR home made solution!

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Back from Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Frankfurt (Germany),  Thanks to Bjorn Negelmann and Cathrin Gill for this opportunity.

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I put here my cold-takeaways. Please give me your feedbacks. 

1. The format of the summit was a real good surprise: 10 minutes pitch followed by discussions, open-space workshop, networking space during the day and after dinner of day one. Great opportunity to meet and discuss with companies' evangelist and consultants. I was happy enough to talk with @sagenet (Jenny), @elsua (Luis), @frogpond (Martin), @aponcier (Antony), Joachim Linder from http://komblog.de, Wendelin Auer from http://www.kkundk.de/, Felix Schröder and his CEO from http://justsofwareag.com, Juliet from Bausch, @JeanYves, @andgenth, Juliette Girard from Renault, Richard Collin, Rolf Schmidt-Holz...All embracing persons, very enthusiatics about the summit and the subject, Enterprise 2.0, but very realistic too. Companies with a long lasting internal communication are even working hard to turn upside down their habits. They are still looking for transversal, fluent, agile conversations all over the company (nobody talked about connecting companies communities with customers or providers).

2. As an entrepreneur I know that business is just about customers. Processes inside the company are aimed to deliver the product or service customers are waiting for. According to cases studied during the summit, big companies (Renault, BASF, T-System, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, IBM, Bayer) are experimenting social platforms, community buildings behind their "firewall". 

starting from the inside (internal initiatives aimed at employees) to gain proficiency in order to move to the outside (externally connecting and engaging in communities with customers and other partners) seems to be the norm. (source:http://artlifework.wordpress.com/) 

What these companies are fearing? Is the "firewall" protecting them 100% from critics, leaking, legal issues? Where are their best allied: inside the company or outside? They are doing a great job, their products are fantastic, so they can meet the "public" with confidence, nothing to hide. Do they know that the most creative and profitable industry sector, fashion, is NOT protected with copyright. (see: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.... ). Remember what Rolf Schmidt-Holz pointed out opening the summit, about people inside companies : "...You find out that you have fantastic people, mostly not at level one....Excellent people need to be treated excellently and it means giving them space, freedom". He was speaking by hart, from his experience on the ground.

3. One workshop was dedicated to "Network analysis". Information, knowledge, pull/push information, network design, bottom-up, ...companies as Lee Bryant showed up are delighted with designing processes aimed to put limits to employees' responsabilities. 

But what if the network is a rhizome, each employee a knot (maybe a crux) and the flow between two knots completely free? Forget about tree and graph, listen the noise, see what "knots" are growing, what piece of information become re-used and is integrated as a knowledge...[1]

Enterprise 2.0 phenomenon like many others current movements (open gouvernement, open foodies, commons...) are disruptive in essence. Are we on the verge to embrace "The perfect society" as described by Socrates?: 

"...The perfect society relies on laborers, slaves and tradesmen. The guardian class is to protect the city. The question is put to Socrates, "Who will guard the guardians?" or, "Who will protect us against the protectors?" Plato's answer to this is that they will guard themselves against themselves. We must tell the guardians a "noble lie". The noble lie will assure them that they are better than those they serve and it is therefore their responsibility to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. We will instill in them a distaste for power or privilege; they will rule because they believe it right, not because they desire it." (source:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F)

[1] A simple wiki is able to give all these informations: 
- listen the noise with "Recent Changes", "watchlist", "New Pages" delivered by email or RSS
- see what knots are growing with Users tracking on each collaborative article
- see what information becomes a knowledge thanks to "search" or "semantic tools"
You can also plug-in all "apps" (like IPhone apps) to test whatever type of collaboration or integration (ex: mobile inputs, twitter or facebook integration). This is agile, versatile and low cost.

* great post which sum-up the Summit with quotes:
http://artlifework.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/lessons-learned-at-the-enterprise-2-0-summit/

 

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Bjoern Negelmann (Conference Chair for Kongress Media) offered me this interview I publish below while he is preparing the next Enterprise2.0 Summit planned in Frankfurt (Germany) October 26.-28.,2010. I was invited by Kongress Media to be one of their Ambassadors and I accepted right away as entrepreneur, "noosphere" enthusiast and wiki evangelist. I will add short comments to Bjoern's responses (I'm afraid I would have be a very bad ambassador ;-) )

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Q1 The Enterprise 2.0 Summit 2010 is focused on "Setting the path to an open and agile enterprise". Lot of buzz about enterprise and openness, but after more than one century of secret process, patent, industrial spying, in 2010 what the enterprises could gained by openness? 

Briefly - openness supports a more holistic understanding of the enterprise to internal and external stakeholders. With everybody microblogging about their work efforts internally, documenting and sharing the results of their project efforts in wikis and interconnecting with different peers in the internal and external realm - the value generation of the enterprise becomes more transparent for those who are allowed to view it. If there are any potentials of improvement anybody can get involved and give his or her input and suggestions. This allows not planned and executed solution finding and generation beyond political and organizational boundaries. So again - openness leads to speeding up time-to-market and improve the flexibility and agility the enterprise acts on the market! 

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My point of view: JP Rangaswami wrote:"For information to have power, it needs to be held asymmetrically. Preferably very very asymmetrically. Someone who knows something that others do not know can do something potentially useful and profitable with that information." This time is over: information can no more be held asymmetrically because of the Internet. Value will no more be generated by "scarcity" but only by "conversation". 

Q2 What is the concept of the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT in Frankfurt? As I could see from the webpage there are 3 days of program with a lot of international guests and a bunch of corporate people speaking about their project. 

Yes - indeed I think the most differentiating point of the E2.0 SUMMIT in Frankfurt is the number of corporate representatives on the speaker's list. The E20 SUMMIT is not the conference about the E20 visions - not at all. It's about the practical insights of the first movers and the solutions towards the challenges of E20 projects. These two aspects are forming the two tracks of our two day conference. Then again each track is divided into different sessions with short talks and a lot of discussions. Additionally there are three keynote sessions on strategic questions as e.g. "what are the characteristics of the manager 2.0?" and an open space workshop where the participants are getting involved to talk and discuss their detailed questions. Optional the E20 SUMMIT provides two pre-conference workshops about "social messaging" and the "social networking culture". 

Q3 What will be your most favourite session of the upcoming event? 

This is hard to decide but spontaneously I would say that's the session on the question of how to overcome the cultural boundaries in E20 projects. This is a session we already did last year but it is so relevant that we have to talk about this year again. Behind this session there is the discussion about E20 projects in international companies. As the E20 projects in larger corporation within any European country is always also an project within an international setting - this is very relevant and also distinguishing from discussion in the pure Anglo-Saxon context - with everybody have the same mother tongue and nearly the same cultural values. 

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My point of view: International Enterprises headed in European Countries are very lucky to experience the european "melting pot" every day. They are trained to pay attention to conversations over the borders...

Q4 During the preparation of the E20 Summit did you notice any new tendencies compared to your work for the previous E20 Summit? 

Well - yes - the E20 idea is more widely spread. There are good practices from first movers - mainly with E20 initiatives focussing on some specific use scenaries as "improving the general information flow by micro-blogging" or "making the corporate knowledge more transparent by documenting projects into wikis". With this the discussions about the challenges of E20 projects become more specific - we are not anymore discussing about the challenges of "adoption" but about the challenges of "rewarding systems", "community management" and new "leadership models". 

Q5 About speakers, what is from your point of view, the main differences between European and US speakers?(what about Asia speakers)? 

That's a great question. Honestly said we haven't had any Asian speaker and always only a few US speakers as we are mainly focussing the practical insights of the intra-European context. But comparing the Europeans and the Americans it would say the main difference is in the "point of view" of the subject. Though it might not be representative as we always invited only US speakers for overview talks but in discussions with them and other US experts in the E20 field I would say they stick very much towards the high-level E20 discussion. They tend to argue very much on the big cultural changes and less on the specific, hands-on details. Especially the German corporates they want to know the specific details of how to set up the community management or the leadership model first - before turning the "big" wheel of the changement of the corporate cultural. At the end for a successful project you need both - but the approaches are different. 

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My point of view: for me the most interesting part of the e20Summit. I used to imagine US managers as "solution-makers", always with a check-list in hand. But you are right I forget their "pioneer spirit", their preference to change the world (in a pragmatic way, far from the french way...)

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Done in three days in Joshua National Park (USA)...Pluie de Météorites des Perséïdes.

The Perseids is the name of a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus.

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Really looks like the nervous system in the human body (a bit "chaotic" too)

"One month (October 2009) of traffic information (1534 vehicles) is condensed in a 24h day. The arteries are colored in a away capable to represent average traffic speeds (the greenish and cooler represents high traffic velocity, and the reddish and hotter, corresponds to sluggish traffic). There is a visual emphasis on areas where the traffic is predominantly slow."

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1656071/20111103_isavatar_left.png http://posterous.com/users/10EhTeliOmR Isabelle Ayel isayel Isabelle Ayel Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:35:00 -0800 Is really Greece the bone of contention in Europe? http://isayel.net/is-really-greece-the-bone-of-contention-in-eu http://isayel.net/is-really-greece-the-bone-of-contention-in-eu

European Union governments are suspended to Greek Prime Minister's economic plan to save its country from bankruptcy. But what about the public finance states of the rest of the European Union?

First fact:
Government borrowing reflects a fundamental disequilibirum between spending and tax revenue. Borrowing as a % of GDP has been increasing in past few years, despite economic growth.

Second fact:
Present Government borrowing is not to finance investment in the economy. A large percentage of the debt is to finance transfer payments to an ageing population. Paying pensions and health care to an ageing population, will do nothing to facilitate economic growth and higher tax revenues. It will get more and more difficult to finance the national debt.

Third Fact:
As National Debt increases as a % of GDP, it means that the interest payments as a % of GDP increase. Therefore, higher levels of taxes have to be spent on just financing the national debt.

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Best bets for a solution:

1. Inflation
A government may be tempted (or forced) to fill the shortfall in revenue by printing money. Printing money and increasing the money supply, will lead to inflation.
Impossible scenario inside the EU: all the governments are depending of the European Central Bank which unique politic is the deflationary one.

2. Unemployment 
Social rules and supports in Europe are absorbing the long lasting unemployment in the european countries. It is increasing the public government debt, letting less fresh money for private productive investments. The shift to a new economy is delayed by politic measures of the 20th century.

3. Devaluation of the money.
Other impossible scenario! The weakest countries of the Euro-zone had to bear the weight of a high-valued money with no hope of a support coming from the richest (see case of Grecia).

The bone of contention is therefore the unique money, the Euro. Thanks to the British eurosceptics, UK is out the Euro-zone. Can you imagine the situation of the European Union with UK as one of the big player in the Euro-zone?

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David Terrar and Dennis Howlett on Enterprise 2.0.
Yes it is obvious that social media and enterprise have not met each other. Few early adopters (Coca-cola, Dell, StarBuck,...) have experimented social tools in the marketing area, others as a kind of social intranet (IBM,NASA,...) but the all in one Enterprise 2.0 (= a social platform with bottomup stream of information, integrating providers and customers voices to deliver the best "social service" to one customers' community) is not born.
Is it an utopy? is it a good medicine against crisis mood ? In my point of view the 20ie century pattern for enterprise had to change. Why?
- because of Information Technology. The enterprise cannot resist to the pression of customers' information nor to providers' information. This is a fact.
- what about the employees: they are best informed than their leaders! This is also a fact.
If Dennis Howlett is very sceptical with "enterprise 2.0" buzz, what about Enterprise Y ?

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