Scott, Simon, myself and a whole bunch of others are part of a group called the DIGWWW (Discussion Group about the World Wide Web) within our organisation. Scott and Simon have done some of their cool patented presentations describing the uprising of this group on Slideshare which can be seen here and here.
However something really interesting has started to happen.....A hardcore group of us has formed , comprising of people from various different areas of the business - and formed a sort of "unofficial business unit". As well as discussing cool stuff on the web - we are now leading the Enterprise 2.0 charge by piloting Web2.0 technologies within the organisation, building up case studies of how Enterprise 2.0 can really work.
As Simon posted on his blog a while back, people actually starting to take notice - and we were recently invited to present to some senior leaders on our ideas, which went down extreemly well, with lots of enthusiastic feedback. What is really great about this group is that we are really living the Enterprise 2.0 dream, and it highlighted something new about E2.0 that I hadn't thought about ... Yes its about collaboration - but more than that it is about channeling and surfacing peoples passions. It is showing me, and I hope others that if you are passionate about something at work - you can achieve amazing things!!!
If you ask Charlie what is important about Enterprise 2.0 - he would reply : "Its not about the technology its about the PEOPLE!".
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Yep, this is exactly how I've been thinking about it over the last few weeks. I was thinking about how quickly we've formed such a strong and solid team - and yet not one of us works in the same dept. Brilliant stuff.
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