Hehe, and now for something completely different from the usual routine – Hugh MacLeod plays a very nice joke on James (#yesyesyes). Let me tell you he’s got way more hair in real life …

Reading up on Jeremiah Owyang’s take on the stages companies go through on the way to becoming social businesses. Granted, no two companies are alike, and they will show varying speeds, may rest saturated at different levels of maturity (which can work out really bad, no progress in a progressing field …), and they sure place the social business design into the hands of different people (and organizational functions, that is). Some may never reach the holistic stage where the business is social by design …

I’m tempted to say that there’s no miracle and that what the article says is only common sense. Anyway, it’s helps to identify the main lines of any successful change project

Bertrand, I agree – so much seems to be nothing more than mere common sense in enterprise 2.0 implementation projects, but it helps to define the framework and establish some accepted lifehacks and “best practices” – if it happens by refining personal learnings into something more generally applicable, fine …

things to consider when deploying social media tools onto a corporate intranet

Richard Dennison knows his stuff – and condenses a short lesson from it. I particularly like the thing about the leap of faith that’s necessary at times, and I agree to the ps. too. Learning is fine, learnings yikes.