Community Architect

My new job title. In my earlier post, The Practice of Community, I defined community to be the integration of the many into the one. Not a bad central concept, but I did not develop any mechanics as to how one actually goes about doing it. Upon further thought I am starting to see how [...]

Blog Carolinas Agenda Draft

Blog Carolinas Agenda Draft Agenda Tracks and Topics Martketing / Comm Enterprise Community Learning Lab Geek Conversations On-Line Reputation Talent Blogs Privacy and Identity Distributed Brand Enterprise 2.0 Podcasting Legal Issues Engaging the Customer Culture Shift Video Metrics PR & Social Media Project Management Social Networks Data Portability Monitoring & Measurement Re-Imagine the Organization Search [...]

Blog Carolinas

Following BarCampRDU last year, Nathan Gilliatt began thinking about putting together some type of similar event, but with less of a tech focus and more of a business/marketing focus. To make a long story short, he started developing Blog Carolinas, modeled after Josh Hallett’s Blog Orlando. Thanks Nathan, for getting this off the ground. Last [...]

The Practice of Community

In 1954 Peter Drucker published the Practice of Management. It is considered by many, myself included, to be the seminal work about the nature of organizations in the 20th century. I once read that he spent much effort in naming his book before settling on “Practice” as the key word in the title. My recollection [...]

Branding E Quint

Ever since I started thinking about starting my own consulting practice, I have been talking to people to get advice. The one bit of advice I have been getting consistently is to be able to clearly, and quickly, state what irt is that I do (or will do). I am finding that to not be [...]

Project Language Translation

Now we have a conversation going… Dennis’s response to my last post: Lee, there is no way that you are going to convince me to manage a multimillion dollar project with hundreds of employees and multiple vendors without a formal, structured budget, a schedule, a defined set of tasks, or a defined set of responsibilities [...]

Tools of Communication in Project Management

To tell you the truth, I think Dennis and I are pretty much in agreement that Social Media is a great tool for supporting project management. But how boring is that if everyone agrees all the time. Soooo, let me see if I can stir the pot a little…. In his post Leadership and Collaboration [...]

Re-Imagine Project Management

The other day I was having a v-con (voice conversation) with Dennis McDonald, a well-known advocate of using social media tools to support project management activities. We were having a great conversation when we had the idea that we should take it online. So here is the initial post of what we hope will be [...]

Reimagine Now

I just saw this post over on the Now is Gone blog by Lauren Vargas. This is exactly the type of approach I am trying to express with Reimagine the Organization. I fully agree with Lauren that there is a huge opportunity for synergy between existing HR systems and social media.

Re-Imagine HR

I did a blog search on “issues in HR” the other day and the results were much as I suspected. The big issue that came up time and again was finding key talent. My own experience indicates that recruiters are, in fact, leading the way for adoption of social media in the HR world. But [...]