Building A Collaborative Culture (#SWChat)

Thanks to everyone who took part in this weeks Social Workplace Twitter Chat event (#SWChat).

Building a Collaborative Culture

This weeks #SWChat was a Guest Event with Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst of MWD Advisors.

Angela is also a keynote speaker at the Social Workplace Conference 2012 in London on May 24th.

Angela shared her insights and thought leadership on "Building a Collaborative Culture", the challenges you will face and the role technology plays - a great prelude to her keynote speech at the conference.

Event Statistics

• No. of Tweets = 1600 (NEW RECORD)
• No. of Contributors = 143
• Reach = 245,000
• No. of impressions = 3,200,000

Summary

Full Transcript Report via @hashtracking

FREE Prize Draw Winner

This weeks event included a FREE Prize Draw where the winner was chosen randomly from those participants who also included #SWConf in their tweets during the 1 hour event by Crexia

I am pleased to announce that Lesley Price, e-learning consultant was drawn as the winner. Lesley wins a FREE ticket worth £480 (~770 USD)  to the Social Workplace Conference 2012 in London on May 24th courtesy of Crexia, the organisers of the conference.

Congratulations Lesley!

Questions Asked

Q1) Why is a collaborative culture so important in business today? 
Q2) People can be trained on tools, but how can a collaborative culture be taught?
Q3) Not everyone readily embraces collaboration. How can these people's fear be overcome?
Q4) Why are companies paying more attention to internal collaboration amongst their own employees?
Q5) What impact can a collaborative culture have on innovation?
Q6) (not asked)
Q7) Email is where conversations go to die. How do you convince a company so entrenched in email to change?

Shared Reference Material

• TweetGrid - Tool for Twitter Chats via @fjfonseca
• Insourcing Your Social PR via @jgombita
• Crime Mapping - A Look At The Beginning Of The National System via @Sasha_Taylor
• Risk Of Using Social As Part Of Formal Learning via @tomspiglanin
• Google: Social Media Success Will Determine Employee Bonuses via @mashable
• Industry Collaboration: A New Era Of Open Collaboration via CPA Global
• Enabling Innovation Through Social Technologies via @connectedchris
• Email Only For Old People via global speech networks
• Redefining Collaboration via @olliegardener
• The Magical Artistry Of Synergy via @TaraMarkus
• Five Workplace Lessons From My Vacation via @JoanneRoyce

Today's #SWChat was sponsored by:
 

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Social Project Management (SWChat)

Thanks to everyone who took part in this weeks Social Workplace Twitter Chat event (#SWChat).

Social Project Management

This weeks #SWChat was a Guest Event with Liz Pearce, COO of Liquid Planner

Liz is COO of Liquid Planner and a keynote speaker at the Social Workplace Conference 2012 in London on May 24th.

Liz shared the correlation between Social Project Management and Enterprise Collaboration and how to make project life more efficient, more effective and more fun - a prelude to her keynote speech at the conference

Social Project Management is the completion of projects through collaborative tools that encourage transparency, autonomy, and connectedness among team members, In Social Project Management, the planning, scheduling and updating of plans and deliverables is often distributed or decentralized, allowing virtual, remote and distributed teams to achieve more efficiency. - Liz Pearce

Event Statistics

• No. of Tweets = 1200
• No. of Contributors = 132
• Reach = 369,000
• No. of impressions = 3,000,000

Summary

Full Transcript Report via @hashtracking

FREE Prize Draw Winner

This weeks event included a FREE Prize Draw where the winner was chosen randomly from those participants who also included #SWConf in their tweets during the 1 hour event by Crexia

I am pleased to announce that Stuart Hyde, Chief Constable of the Cumbria Police was drawn as the winner.

Stuart wins a FREE ticket worth £480 (~770 USD)  to the Social Workplace Conference 2012 in London on May 24th courtesy of Crexia, the organisers of the conference.

Congratulations Stuart!

Questions Asked

Q1) How do you see project management evolving to match the needs of a social business?
Q2) What do you see as the key differentiators between standard and social project management techniques?
Q3) Do you see social project management evolving to require its own certification like Prince2?
Q4) Where do you see the correlation between business collaboration and social project management?
Q5) Social project management promotes transparency and engagement. But who embraces and who resists?
Q6) How has social design pioneers like Facebook and Twitter influenced project management today?
Q7) In 140 characters or less, what sales pitch would you give to a CEO to evolve to social project management?

Shared Reference Material

• Pre game chatter on #SWChat [image] via @MediaLabRat
• "Social Projects could be like the Cathedral & Bazzaar" via @NickKellet
• Project Management Institute (PMI) - US Certification via @LindaChreno
• Open Collaboration via @davidchris
• Social Project Office designed by @davidchris
• Dangers Of Confusing Online Task Mgmt with Online Project Mgmt via @LiquidPlanner
• Scarcity Versus Abundance In Knowledge Management via @sachac
• Social Project Management In Large Projects via @LiquidPlanner
• The Peacemaker - Enneagram Type Nine via The Enneagram Institute
• Social Media: Give More To Get More via @tomspiglanin
• UK Action Fraud - The Devil's In Your Details via CC_StuartHyde
• The 5 Laws Of Social Project Management via @LiquidPlanner

Today's #SWChat was sponsored by:
 

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UnChat Event (#SWChat)

Thanks to everyone who took part in this weeks Social Workplace Twitter Chat event (#SWChat).

UnChat Event

No topic or questions were pre-defined. The participants who joined were asked at the start of the event what hot topic(s) they would like discussed. The most popular were chosen.

Event Statistics

• No. of Tweets = 805
• No. of Contributors = 94
• Reach = 388,000
• No. of impressions = 3,200,000

Summary

Full Transcript Report via @hashtracking

Questions Asked

Q1) How do businesses and bloggers adopt to the 'visual' trend of Pinterest and perhaps future SoMe? via @LoisMarketing @fjfonseca

Q2) What are you using to track online mentions? via @nanianeleia

Q3) What is your favorite tool for content curation? via @pmswish

Q4) Is Social about technology or behaviours? #SWchat

Shared Reference Material

• Instagram
• Is Your Website Pin-Ready? via @fjfonseca
• #ChatAddict: A Personal List [vote for your favourite] via @lttlewys
• tickr.com
• hashtracking.com
• Comprehensive List Of Twitter Tools via @DavidChris
• Scoop.It
• You Should Pick Up Your Interest In Pinterest via PEISocialMedia.com
• Social Media in Business: It's Just A Bunch Of Tools Right? [slideshare] via @DavidChris
• STS Tip 1: Social technologies enable the strategy, they don't define it via @DavidChris
• MarketMeSuite.com

Today's #SWChat was sponsored by:
 

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#SWCONF is nearly here...

I'm sooooooo excited....

Why?

The Social Workplace Conference (#SWCONF) in London is just over a week away!

This is a great looking conference with some fantastic speakers which I have admired for many years. I am truly honored to be the opening keynote at this conference, which has made me work even harder to ensure i bring great content. And I promise NO death by powerpoint!

But what do I choose to talk about? :

• The Oracle journey of Social discovery?
• Why being social in the enterprise is no longer just a nice to have but a critical component of how we need do business?
• How to gain senior management buy-in to create The Social Enterprise?
• Is Social Media really ther right term we should be using?
• How to develop Social Readiness and mature your Social Business Infrastructure?
• How traditional and social communications can and need to co-exist?
• The death of email is coming...

All the above I will cover but there is one topic that I am so passionate about which I have been working on for the last 3 years that I have to talk about - OPEN COLLABORATION.

OPEN COLLABORATION for me is at the heart of The Social Enterprise and it is what's going to change behaviours in the workplace.

If you don't know about this conference then check out the details over at #SWCONF and if that doesn't whet your appetite then check out my interview with Vic Okezie - Social Media behind the Firewall

If you haven't got your tickets yet for the conference and are thinking of going, then hurry there is currently a 20% discount if you quote the code TWITTER20.

Hope to see you there...