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A Conversation about Social Media in the Enterprise

See how Social Media is impacting your Marketing and Communications Strategy
Learn how Community can serve as a model to improve your organization’s productivity
Meet others that are dealing with the same issues you are.
Talk to experts in the fields of On Line Reputation, Search Engine Optimization, Web 2.0 [...]

Enterprise 2.0, meet Social Media Monitoring

I am a huge believer in the potential of Enterprise 2.0, the set of Web 2.0 tools targeted for use inside the organization. Others have delivered excellent examples and descriptions of Enterprise 2.0 and how it can bring value to an organization (Andrew McAfee, Chris Brogan, & Scott Gavin, among others) . Unfortunately the [...]

What’s a Community Architect?

Since I started using the phrase Community Architect the other day, I have been trying to figure out how to explain what one is in a pragmatic way. Or, in other words; what do I deliver?; what is my product?
The first thought that has come to mind is that my deliverable to a client [...]

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 [...]

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 let’s [...]

New Series

I have had a little writer’s block lately on this blog. Couldn’t decide how to move forward. I think I have finally have found my way.
Introducing:
Re-Imagine: The Series
A lot of my conversations lately have been around the concepts I recently posted in this blog and on Slideshare, specifically that Social Media is going to change [...]

Re-Imagine the Organization

I am beginning to focus in on where I want to take E Quint Consulting. I am beginning to see that there is a real opportunity in bring a “Social Media” approach to almost any business function or process. When I say social media approach, I am not referring to the technology but the attitude [...]

Enterprise Communications Strategy

Enterprise Communications Strategy has a nice ring to it. That is what I want to do.
So what is ”Enterprise Communications” and how is it different from “Corporate Communications”? I think we all have a picture of Corp. Comms, the mouthpiece of the company. That is not what I am talking about. For me Enterprise Communications is about [...]

The Great Divide

I have been picking up on a theme over the past few weeks, that is the divide between the 1.0-er’s and the 2.0-er’s. And the $64,000 question is how to bridge the divide.

Euan Semple pointed to James Gardner’s excellent post on the subject.
Cord Silverstein noted how online professionals keep writing to each other and not [...]