Comments on: Selling Enterprise 2.0 – do as I say, not as I do http://socialmediagroup.com/2007/12/20/selling-enterprise-20-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Helping Business Navigate the Social Web. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Stephen Collins http://socialmediagroup.com/2007/12/20/selling-enterprise-20-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2574 Stephen Collins Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:25:02 +0000 http://socialmediagroup.ca/2007/12/20/selling-enterprise-20-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/#comment-2574 Heather, it's a classic case of "the cobbler's children". I've worked in more than one organisation myself that did great things for its clients in consulting or product terms but utterly failed to do the same for itself. It's incredibly frustrating, as your anecdote reveals. It always seems the case that in organisations where consultant utilisation or unit sales are the management measure of success, the ability to get something done is a poor cousin as resources can't be assigned to making it happen. Heather, it’s a classic case of “the cobbler’s children”. I’ve worked in more than one organisation myself that did great things for its clients in consulting or product terms but utterly failed to do the same for itself. It’s incredibly frustrating, as your anecdote reveals.

It always seems the case that in organisations where consultant utilisation or unit sales are the management measure of success, the ability to get something done is a poor cousin as resources can’t be assigned to making it happen.

]]> By: Phil Barrett http://socialmediagroup.com/2007/12/20/selling-enterprise-20-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2575 Phil Barrett Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:06:30 +0000 http://socialmediagroup.ca/2007/12/20/selling-enterprise-20-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/#comment-2575 What platforms do you recommend for a corporation looking to better leverage the power of social media? We've got sharepoint in-house which is a good intranet tool... but what else is recommended to create and manage internal colloboration? Finally - do any of them extend their reach into mobile? What platforms do you recommend for a corporation looking to better leverage the power of social media? We’ve got sharepoint in-house which is a good intranet tool… but what else is recommended to create and manage internal colloboration?

Finally – do any of them extend their reach into mobile?

]]> By: Chris Brogan... http://socialmediagroup.com/2007/12/20/selling-enterprise-20-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2573 Chris Brogan... Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:16:51 +0000 http://socialmediagroup.ca/2007/12/20/selling-enterprise-20-do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/#comment-2573 I love telling the story of how we had a "social media underground" running at our place. We had VMWare running all these instances of linux, where we built our internal blogs, wikis, and virtual shared spaces. The IT department could only sniff that we were running VMWare, but couldn't see into the virtual containers, so they had no idea. We'd run faster and better than those relegated to email and file servers, but it was never condoned. My old company got bought by an Indian company after a bunch of weirdness. Related? I'll pretend they are. I love telling the story of how we had a “social media underground” running at our place. We had VMWare running all these instances of linux, where we built our internal blogs, wikis, and virtual shared spaces. The IT department could only sniff that we were running VMWare, but couldn’t see into the virtual containers, so they had no idea.

We’d run faster and better than those relegated to email and file servers, but it was never condoned. My old company got bought by an Indian company after a bunch of weirdness.

Related? I’ll pretend they are.

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