BPM and Google Wave | ActionBase Blog - Thoughts on Collaboratio. Network Blogs. Note: This blog is the second in a series of blogs about ‘Social BPM. The Social BPM: Definitions and Dissensions looked at the current Internet buzz about the topic and provided a set of initial descriptions. As seen in the first blog in this series, the term Social BPM is very broad and still being defined.
For us to better understand this topic, I'd like to take a deeper dive into the subject. To accomplish this objective, I'd like to dissect the term into chewable bits so that we can concentrate on the more relevant parts. This blog is split into the following parts: 1) A taxonomy, 2) current offerings in the marketplace and 3) the application of the suggested taxonomy to the current offerings.
A Taxonomy Although many view Social BPM as a single entity, it is actually possible and necessary to distinguish the different use cases for which Social BPM technology can be used. As a methodology, BPM is about tackling SAP in a process-driven manner. A few comments about this taxonomy: Network Blogs. Recently, there has been a great deal of Internet buzz concerning "Social BPM": Usually, these two words are seen as separate entities but with the emergence of Web 2.0 sites outside the enterprise and other developments, there has been an increase in interest in bringing the two worlds closer together.
Indeed, it appears that the latest trend is to add the word "Social" to every possible IT-related acronym including "Social CRM", "Social SRM", "Social CIO"- without really discussing in detail what this collaborative functionality would really entail. Note: Although the buzz has reached a crescendo in recent months, others have been interested in this topic for a longer period. For example, Sandy Kemsley presented on the topic at a conference in London in 2006 (!). Another Note: I'm currently participating in the BPX ProcessSlam for this year's TechEds and have personally dealt with the difficulties of trying to conduct BPM-related work in a community.
Why is Social BPM necessary? BPM Twibe - BPM Twitter Users. Annuaire (Directory) BPM Twitter : les acteurs du Business Proce. DeveloperWorks : Community. Deadline extension - Workshop on BPM and Social Software (BPM�. Organizers:Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, FranceRainer Schmidt – University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany Papers submission deadline: May 22d, 2009 Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. It supports social interaction and social production. Social interaction is the interaction of non-predetermined individuals. Social production is the creation of artefacts, by combining the input from independent contributors without predetermining the way to do this. Users are supported in creating new contacts, presenting themselves and collaborating with other users.
As a result, content, knowledge and software is not created by a hierarchy of experts, but by combining a multitude of contributions of independent authors/actors. The paradigm of social software and social production has created a multitude of success stories such as wikipedia.org and the development of the Linux operating system. 1. 2. 3. Social Nets and BPM: Lauren Cooney's Reality Check: Tips and Tricks for Building. Last week I presented to Women@Microsoft, a group of about 100 or so women that hold monthly meetings down at the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley. It was an awesome group, and I thought I’d post the presentation here. As a side note – I got called from one of the General Managers at Microsoft to take this job almost based entirely on my blog and also on my twitter account… so you never know what can come from something as simple as building your own personal brand. :) Brand-ology: Tips & Tricks on Branding Yourself from a Chick who Lives It!
Building your own personal brand used to be about a logo, or a tagline. Today it’s changed – now it’s about the picture you have posted on your Facebook account, or the Tweets you send via Twitter during your workday (and sometimes in your off-hours!). Can something this simple make you successful – personally and professionally? How do you build your own personal brand both internally and externally through these Web 2.0 communities? Report: Enterprises Struggle to Adopt Social Networking Internal. CIO — While consumer social networks like Facebook and Twitter continue to garner significant attention from Web consumers and the marketing departments who want to reach them, the attempts to replicate these technologies for internal communications and employee collaboration remains nascent, according to a recent Burton report.
More Enterprise Social Networking coverage on CIO.com The conclusions of the report, entitled social networking in the enterprise, was based on interviews with 21 enterprises in a variety of industries, including consumer goods, finance, technology and utilities. It comes just a couple months before the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, a gathering of technology vendors that have created social applications similar in design to Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, but tailored for business use.
But the products being sold by those companies may not be the problem for enterprise social networking adoption, says Mike Gotta, a principal analyst at Burton Group. Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software. Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. It supports social interaction and social production.
Social interaction is the interaction of non-predetermined individuals. Social production is the creation of artefacts, by combining the input from independent contributors without predetermining the way to do this (*). Users are supported in creating new contacts, presenting themselves and collaborating with other users.
As a result, content, knowledge and software is not created by a hierarchy of experts, but by combining a multitude of contributions of independent authors/actors. Examples for such a social production are wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and tagging, etc. Social software follows a more egalitarian and meritocratic approach compared to traditional approaches where the role of the software user is determined by the enterprise senior management and its representatives. Do you really need enterprise social computing? Answer here. Twitter: The how to get started guide for businesspeople.
Gartner. Gartner Business Process Management Summit. Research on the Use of Social Software in the Workplace. Network Blogs. Although I continue to focus in December primarily on the future planning of the BPX community ( like a nice blog is the web2.0 direction predictions by Allyson Kapin : ) I also try to look back on 2008. I asked myself first and our BPX core team second to highlight some of their favorites in 2008; in this blog I tried to compile some of them, but I am hoping that community members will add to this blog and add their personal favorites as well; so this becomes a LIVE treasure box that we can go back to in time to create "oh my god I forgot about that" moments in the future.
So here we go; non chronological and randomly ordered and by far not complete We also recorded a bunch of BPX peeps during ASUG BPX day at Sapphire about the “The BPX Community Speaks – Benefits of Membership” and posted it on YouTube. Business Process Management: an SAP roadmap ; Collab-Or-Ate » Blog Archive » Beehive hits the airwaves: A b. Report: Millennials Will Route Around IT Departments. According to a new report by Accenture, a large number of Millennials (those born between 1977 and 1997), expect their companies to accommodate their IT preferences, including their preferred computers and applications. More than a third of Millennials also indicated that they were dissatisfied with the technologies their employers currently provide.
Among other things, Millennials would prefer to use instant messaging, text messaging, and RSS feeds to communicate with their clients and customers, though very few companies currently support these technologies. The report also highlights that a lot of employees are simply bypassing corporate IT departments if those don't offer them the services they need. Going Rogue One of the most interesting results of this study is that this difference between expectations and reality has led over a quarter of the employees surveyed by Accenture to use technology that is unsupported and unsanctioned by their corporate IT departments.
The End of Email? » LinkedIn Pay it Forward Day Taking it Personal: The truth, the. Download this gallery (ZIP, null KB) Download full size (152 KB) If you're of a certain age, you know what it's like to live through company layoffs. It's pure hell. Paranoia lays a weird filter over every intra-company experience. If you know someone who got laid off, you just feel awful for them. At least I do. I'd like to establish Wednesday, October 29, 2008 LinkedIn Pay it Forward Day . There's not much we can do collectively to arrest the hemorrhaging in our economy, but we can take a few charitable actions to assist others who are affected by it. Download full size (50 KB) Detecting earthquakes with laptops | Shake it all about | The Ec.
SMG to Acquire Livingston Communications. Skemsley's timeline on Swurl. How to find FriendFeed Rooms with Google. Big Blue Embraces Social Media. New Google Reader for iPhone: Still Neat, Not Very Social. There's a new (beta) version of the Google Reader for iPhone out, and it's still one of the most important iPhone apps for any RSS junkie such as myself. You can try it out by pointing your iPhone here: www.google.com/reader/i/. The new version brings several new features from the desktop version, and most importantly it looks like list view, which seems to be the way most people prefer it.
Tapping an item expands it; once the item is expanded, you can share it with another tap. Robert Scoble points out, however, that many of the social features are missing: you can't share items from the top level, you cannot add notes, and you cannot see your friends. I don't lack these while I'm on the go, and I suspect most people won't; also, the last complaint isn't entirely valid, as explained by Google Reader Engineer Mihai Parparita: you can see items from your friends when you click on "Feeds" and choose the "Friends' shared items.
" Graphin' Your Stats. 10 Ideas to Take LinkedIn to the Next Level: Because It Needs It. In many ways I think LinkedIn has a much more interesting story than Facebook. They’ve made very few mistakes, they’re trusted where Facebook is not, and they’re well positioned to be the Business Social Network, while Facebook is not for business. Yet something is missing. LinkedIn doesn’t get nearly the attention that Facebook does. They are announcing a few new initiatives, but there is not the sense that they’re exploding with momentum and changing the world. 1. There are rumors that Microsoft is in acquisition talks with Xobni, the cool Social Graph add-on for Microsoft Outlook email users. Get the Xobni hotness whether by hook or by crook. There are only two companies that can pose a credible threat to Xobni: Microsoft controls the Outlook side, and LinkedIn is the cloud presence for what Xobni wants to do.
It’s probably time to crank up the Business Development engine at LinkedIn anyway, so start here and make sure something good happens! 2. 3. 4. I know. Let’s work this out: 5. Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li's Blog): The future. By Charlene Li On Monday, I gave the kick off speech for the Graphing Social Patterns West conference on the topic, “The Future Of Social Networks” (slides are available on SlideShare, summaries available on News.com, ReadWriteWeb, and allfacebook.) Note that this is still ongoing research, so I welcome your comments. I set my time frame for the long term – five, even ten years out. That’s because unless we know where we want to end up, how could we ever craft a strategy to get there? Instead, I believe that in the future, social networks will be like air. There are four components of what I’m calling this idea of “ubiquitous social networks”: 1) Profiles; 2) Relationships; 3) Activities; and 4) Business models.
The ubiquitous social network isn’t going to happen overnight – in fact, it’s going to take five+ years to come to fruition. In the end, there are two essential things that have to present for this all to happen. So what is a social network, marketer, or developer to do? Who Are My Gmail Contacts? Google has an awkward way of dealing with contacts in its communication apps. In Gmail, your contact list includes all the people you've ever replied, but you can also add other contacts manually. "Email addresses are automatically added to your Contacts list each time you use the Reply, Reply to all, or Forward functions to send messages to addresses not previously stored in your Contacts list," according to the help center.
While this should save you some time and effort, your contact list will include a lot of people you wouldn't have normally added. For example, if somebody sends me a tip for this blog and I reply to thank him, my contact list includes that person. Gmail doesn't have an option to turn off this feature, so all you can do is to either ignore your contact list or create a group that contains only your real contacts.
By default, if your conversation with someone includes more than 2-3 replies, that person is automatically added to your list of Google Talk friends. FixMyStreet. PJA Social Media Index. The 2007 ITtoolbox/PJA IT Social Media Index Survey was conducted between May 9 and May 21, 2007. More than 2,100 IT and business professionals from more than 50 countries worldwide participated in the survey. Participants were recruited directly from the ITtoolbox network. ITtoolbox and PJA Advertising + Marketing worked together on this project to gauge the extent to which IT decision-makers and influencers use social media tools and user-generated content to aid their purchasing decisions.
In the past few years, user-generated content and social media tools such as blogs, podcasts, online communities, wikis and social networking have had a significant impact on media consumption patterns. To address these issues, the survey included specific questions such as: What information sources do you reference the most for your company’s purchasing decisions? What information sources do you trust the most for your company’s purchasing decisions? Executive Decision-Maker: 121 Business Manager: 100.