Enterprise 2.0 Conference is coming up in Boston this June. In true 2.0 spirit, conference organizers are using Spigit's software to tap into the collective intelligence of the community and transform it into actionable, predictive information. In other words, they polled people to pick conference presenters.

So ... based on my unofficial tally last night, just before the voting ended at midnight, here are the top 9 out of 84 submissions in the "Driving Adoption / Organizational Change" category (sorry #10: I lost the post-it with your final number of spigs!):

1. 124 spigs – "Hitchhikers guide to ROI: Is the answer 42 or did we forget the question?"

2. 102 spigs – "Re-org!? Organic Organizational Transformation"

3. 60 spigs – "How to Demonstrate ROI for Enterprise 2.0"

4. 53 spigs – "Viral in The Enterprise"

5. 53 spigs – "Social Engineering in a Not-So-Social Envrionment: How One Champion Brought 2.0 to Nobel Biocare"

6. 48 spigs – "The Year of Visualization in the Enterprise"

7. 30 spigs – "10.5 Reasons No One's Using Your Sweet Enterprise 2.0 Technology" (frank's submission: thanks to everyone who spigged us!)

8. 28 spigs – "Straight Talk: How Buzzwords Are Putting the Brakes on Adoption"

9. 25 spigs – "The Cloud Over IT Departments: How End-User Behavior is Driving IT Practices"

Lots of measurement interest, as you might expect. First-person, case-studies are always fascinating – and therapeutic. And of course, never underestimate the pull of a great headline and a supportive online community.

Based on today's tag cloud on the e2conf site on the right, we can also clearly see what everyone's reaching for through the promise of the technology: Collaboration ... that drives business results. (Ya ok, that pesky point about successful "adoption" still comes through pretty strongly as well!)

The Top 100 Community Selected proposals are here. (Happy to see frank's submission among them!)

But what's missing? Based on my experience at e2conf, I believe a lot of the same people are still talking to themselves. As an HR, Org Dev, or Internal Communications leader who may never have heard of enterprise 2.0, I'd love to hear what you think we should be talking about.

Let it rip!

One of my life's many blessings: my work is engaging and inspiring enough that I'm sipping coffee and skimming Talent Management magazine at 8am on a holiday morning. And a good thing too. Otherwise I might have missed this gem of an article by General Mills vp and chief learning officer Kevin D. Wilde.

In his article Mr. Wilde beautifully summarizes four key principles of frank's Biz Case Toolkit. Whether the project you're pitching is social media, knowledge management, learning and development....whatever the program or project, when you're going for the funding pitch these are four great rules to live by.  1. & 2. Keep it real, keep it direct. (In other words, make sure your project has a true biz need. A biz need that's easily and directly linked to this project.) 3. Keep it familiar, simple. (Avoid jargon. It won't make you look smarter. It'll just distract from your key points.) 4. Top-line your approach: show (without stupifying detail, please) you've thought through the required steps to execute and implement. 

The challenge Mr. Wilde outlines in his article....covering all four of these points in four minutes. (The article title actually gives you only two minutes, which in my experience is more realistic during c-level conversations.) So....which is your biggest growth opportunity: drawing a direct correlation to the business? Cutting out the jargon? Balancing detail and thoroughness?

Lots of great stuff for my brain to digest. (Hopefully yours too.) Perfect for Turkey Day! 

 

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