Maybe your company is just beyond social

There are certain types of organisations, and only a few are fit for social. Only some others can adopt social, and the rest just shouldn't
I'll say that about 1/3^rd of all organisations shouldn't even try to become social in any way whatsoever because it simply is a waste of time - for them

The above image depicts three types of growth: linear (50 x), cubic (x ^ 3) and exponential (2 ^ x).What do they have in common? There's only a way forward, and no going back. Evolution doesn't know anything like growing smaller, one can only grow bigger. Sure we do shrink a bit at the end of our lives, but I wouldn't want to call that 'growth'
The same applies to organisations: their natural growth is forward, better, bigger, bust. Only over an

The DIY Enterprise - apples to oranges

Lately, over the past month, I've seen people compare ye olde enterprises to companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter. Let me dub them as old versus new (companies) for the remainder of this post.
Not surprisingly, the old get a beating when compared to the swiftness, ease and responsiveness the new react to (changing) business or consumer needs

Well, that ain't fair. There are a few reasons why old and new just can't be compared to eachother. Some

Global Warming, IT and Christianity - the Law of Infallibility

On Twitter, I do talk a lot. About anything. My monthly tweets have exponentially grown to currently over 1,200 a month, and that now is my baseline it seems.
I talk a bit with fundamental Christians at times, but that's at night time usually, somehow.
I talk mostly with IT people during the day, as I work in IT and usually operate as an Enterprise Architect who started off writing BASIC at age 11 and COBOL at career start - been there, done that.
And every now and then I do read and / or say something about Global Warming as that has become part of our everyday life

When having conversation with Christians, I usually run into strict believers who have a good share of quotes and take the Bible literally or at least believe it contains absolute Truth. I challenge them on the