I have done a number of interviews recently with companies who are successfully using social software tools within their organizations.  Earlier this week I had the pleasure of talking to Bearing Point about their use of wikis throughout the organization. Suffice it to say their collective adoption of wikis has been very successful. A quick Google search will show that they have already received a great deal of publicity on this topic. Wikis are used by practically every department and team within Bearing Point for all manner of collaboration, including such cases as project management, deliverable co-authoring, and as a platform for visualizing and augmenting the working social networks that exist between its advisors.
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We recently started planning for next year’s IMPACT conference.    In April of next year we will hold our second of what we hope are many annual gatherings of business executives focused on enterprise learning and talent management (you can learn more about it here).   Last year’s conference was highly successful, and it also served as the focal point for our organization’s first experimentation with community building and enterprise social software. Mzinga, an enterprise social software vendor with a long history in the Learning & Development space (formerly the LMS provider Knowledge Planet), provided the platform for our attempt at a conference-focused community site.   Prior to the conference, we invited attendees and presenters to kick-off their conversations ahead of the event itself.
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