Reminder: AppGap Webinar on Facebook – today at 3 p.m. EDT

June 25, 2008 at 12:03 pm · Filed under Webinar

A quick reminder to readers of The AppGap that Jenny Ambrozek, a contributor here, will be leading a discussion on research she and her colleagues have conducted over the past six months on how companies are using Facebook Groups.

Find out more and be sure to register here.

Facebook Groups in Business Webinar: Your Questions Please

June 20, 2008 at 9:54 am · Filed under Collaboration, Collective intelligence, Webinar, social networks

Thanks to TheAppGap sponsors Intuit Quickbase next Wednesday June 25, 3pm EDT we”ll have a chance to share learning from our Facebook Groups in Business Investigation convened December 2007.  

Webinar details are posted here along with the registration.

PLEASE JOIN US.

To ensure we address your questions about observing the  dynamics of 10 Facebook Groups December 2007- February 2008, please submit as comments below.

The 10 participating Facebook Groups and owners (from 6 countries and 4 continents) who made the investigation possible were:

Bordeaux Colloquium- Kimberly Samaha
Cscout- Ray Cha
eSquared- Eric Edelstein
Hellenes Educators & London Jewish Cultural Centre- Niki Lambropoulos
Huddlemind Labs- Dave Duarte
Marketing 2.0- Francois Gossieaux
Network PR- Jenni Beattie
RNIA Supporters- Adam Kovitz

As investigation co-conveners with Bill Anderson , Victoria Axelord and I monitored our 21st Century Organizations Facebook Group.

The investigation was supported by advisors  Jeffrey Keefer, Patti Anklam, Jill Howell, Josh Katinger, Danielle Ravich, and interest from the Knowledge Innovation Network, University of Warwick  to which the first findings were presented March 6. The slides are here. 

Our Facebook Groups learning included:

• What it takes to drive activity in a Facebook Group
• The importance of purposeful business objectives, and
• Gaps in Facebook administration tools.

We also experienced the challenges of facilitating a peer-to-peer action research intitiative across 16 hours of time zones but the joy of collaborating with an extraordinary ad hoc “network in the word” (as  fellow AppGap contributor Patti Anklam describes) that assembled for this investigation. Proving the power of online to connect and serendipitous real world encounters, only one Facebook Group owner was known to the conveners before the investigation begin.

Having your questions in advance to guide webinar planning is appreciated as is your registering and joining our conversation about Facebook Groups in Business June 25, 3pm EDT.

1. What interests you about Facebook Groups and their potential value for your business? 

2. Have you successfully used a Facebook Group to support your enterprise or started a group and watched it lie fallow?

3. What have we missed?

 Please share your insights and questions.

~ Jenny Ambrozek

Upcoming AppGap webinar: Using Facebook for business

June 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm · Filed under Communities, Webinar, social networks

Next Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. EDT, we’ll be hosting a webinar on how businesses large and small are using Facebook to raise awareness, build buzz, gain customer insights, and increase sales.

The hour-long event, about which more here, will feature some of the observations and learnings that came out of the recent study conducted by AppGap contributor Jenny Ambrozek and her colleagues Victoria Axelrod and William Anderson in which they took a close look at how Facebook business group owners are putting the site to work for the good of their company. Jenny will be joined by some of the participants in the study and will be putting to them questions raised here on the blog or in real-time during the webinar.

Jenny will surely weigh in with another post or two about the study and webinar in the coming days but we wanted to be sure to get the word out here ASAP – please let others who’d be interested know about it.

Find out more and be sure to register for the event.

Join Me for a Webinar on Flexible Work – and the IT Implications

March 17, 2008 at 3:24 pm · Filed under Collaboration, Distributed Work, Webinar

Sorry for the short notice, but there’s still time to register for, and attend, the webinar that Charlie Grantham and I are conducting on Wednesday, March 19 (from 11 AM to Noon, Pacific Daylight Time). It’s sponsored by Citrix Online and includes a report on a survey we’ve just completed that sheds new light on the growth in flexible, remote, and mobile work, as well as some of the critical challenges facing organizations in supporting/enabling flexible work.

The webinar is titled “The Future of Work: Preparing for the Next Frontier.” To register, click here. It’s free.

Here’s a brief overview, from the Citrix website:

The office is becoming more of a touchpad than a destination – and businesses need to catch up to the trend.

Join this interactive Webinar to hear about the business case for implementing a flexible work plan, some of the factors contributing to organizational resistance, and tips for getting your business up to speed.

We’ll be joined on the webinar by Gretchen Nemechek, Product Marketing Manager, Citrix Online, and James Hilliard of BNET, who will host and moderate the conversation.

Hope you can join us.

Tags: distributedwork flexiblework futureofwork Citrix

Free Webinar on Corporate Agility – Next Wednesday, February 27

February 20, 2008 at 12:38 pm · Filed under Distributed Work, Notable + Quotable, Webinar

I am pleased to announce that Charlie Grantham and I will be presenting a free webinar based on our book Corporate Agility next Wednesday, February 27, at 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST.

The webinar is sponsored by Books24×7, a division of Skilsoft. We’ll also be delivering a keynote speech at Books24×7’s annual conference in Orlando, Florida on Monday, April 28. There will be more information about that program during the webinar next week.

You can read about the program and register (again, it’s free) at this link:

http://www.regform.com/skillsoft/event_details.php?webinar=24313

Tags: corporateagility futureofwork books24×7

Recording of Friday’s webinar on the future of work

February 9, 2008 at 10:59 am · Filed under Webinar

Attached you will find the audio recording of yesterday’s excellent discussion between Bill Lucchini, the moderator, and Jim Ware, Steve King, and Josh Holbrook on the changing way we work.

Among the highlights:

• How Generation Y is different – but not too differen
• How our home technology influences our work life
• Tips for managers on how to weave virtual workers into the organization and culture.

Feel free to follow up with reactions and follow-up questions by posting a comment to this post – we’ll be sure the panelists see them and will invite them to respond. Also stay tuned to the blog over the coming weeks and months as we continue to explore many of the topics that were raised in the webinar.

 

 Webinar on the Future of Work: Jim Ware, Steve King, Josh Holbrook [60:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Reminder: Today’s webinar at 1:00 pm EST

February 8, 2008 at 9:19 am · Filed under Webinar

A reminder that we’ll be hosting a discussion on the future of work you shouldn’t miss. It’s the first in an ongoing series and today we’ll be hearing from Steve King, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future, Jim Ware, co-founder of the Future of Work and a contributor to this blog, and Yankee Analyst Josh Holbrook.

Moderated by Bill Lucchini of QuickBase, the discussion will explore how new tools, technologies, practices, and pressures are impacting the ways companies operate, innovate and run in general. We’ll also be opening up the call to questions from you all, posted via the chat at GoToWebinar – feel free to fire away as we’re eager to hear from you. Or, if you like, post questions you’d like to see the panelists address in the comments to this post.

The event is free to attend – just register here and tune in at 1:00 pm EST.