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Some books I enjoyed!



Great book on wiki adoption!



A classic on corporate blogging!



The most interesting biography of Billy Joel to date!



New York Times Bestseller!



The Book on My Blogging Platform!



Start your own "revolution" and lead it!



The history of Google and Internet Search!




An interesting and addictive device!

My Enterprise 2.0 finding of the day

Via fellow Enterprise 2.0 enthusiast Scott Gavin I found the great blog of Richard Dennison, Intranet and Channel Strategy Manager at Britisch Telecom, which I immediately added to the E2.0 section in my RSS reader.

I was triggered by his article called Five reasons not to let social media tools onto your intranet. A good title and luckily Richard presents some good answers to the five challenges his poses.

By the way, the sentence that drew most of my attention was:

...letting people express themselves is the fast track to engagement.

especially because of the importance of “engaging people” at work and my personal feeling of what tools that offer people an outlet for their opinions and idea’s, could mean and do for a company.

Finally please find a very nice presentation of Richard:




Related: my other Enterprise 2.0 articles

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  1. Thanks, Marcel, for the link to Richards blog and this post – in particular for the slides!
    (I just referenced your article in my blog)


    Frank Hamm    Dec 7, 01:35 pm    #