Reminder: Free Webinar Next Week by Tony Byrne of CMS Watch: Enterprise Social Software: Ready for Prime Time?

Next Thursday, the IT Leadership Forum in association with Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch, will present a one-hour long web seminar on Thursday, August 13th from 2:00 - 3:00 PM EDT. Here's a brief description of that web seminar.

You can now find numerous case studies of successful departmental implementations of various social software technologies, such as wikis, blogs, forums, tags, micro-blogs, and so forth. However, extending those projects to enterprise-wide initiatives gets trickier.

Noted independent analyst and evaluation firm CMS Watch will explain how the challenge in enterprise deployments stems partly from immature technology. Many social computing tools – even from large, established vendors – lack key functionality. But the rest of the challenge lies in organizational factors, including common barriers to adoption.

This seminar will assess today’s social software and collaboration marketplace and offer concrete advice about how to select the right tool for your circumstances. It will also share best practices in enterprise deployment and adoption of social technology.

What you will learn by attending:
- Key success factors for enterprise-wide social software roll-outs
- How the enterprise social software marketplace breaks down into six categories
- Strengths and weaknesses of some of the major vendors
- How to pick the right tools for your enterprise
- What the future holds for 2010

Featured Speaker
Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/345059881
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Implementing Wikis can be Difficult

In a recent blog at CMS Wire, they discuss a new report released by J Boyle called Wiki in the Enterprise: A challenging new way of working.

This report focuses on the best way for a company to implement a wiki system into their enterprise. With information spread out across so many sources including multiple applications, computers and with individual employees themselves; it’s vital to bring all of this information together into one central location. A wiki can be used to funnel all of this information into one spot, easily accessible and searchable. The report found these the reasons that companies implemented wikis into their organization:

• Developing ownership of information
• Share knowledge locked inside the head of the “experts”
• Easy way to share and find information
• Store information that is asked often
• Cheaper to train to use then, say, an enterprise content management system
• Cheaper than a CMS

As the report shows, many times, companies set out with good intentions, but fail to realize some of the best practices. Many companies have difficulties adjusting to an open system, leaving them puzzled as to how best implement this system where everything is collaboratively collected into one location.