Bill Ives
Bill Ives has served for over 25 years in leadership positions as a consultant in learning, knowledge management, other business applications of emerging technologies, and most recently with social media such as blogs and Twitter. He has worked with US Fortune 500 companies in a range of industries, along with a number of leading European firms. Bill has also supported a number of small to mid-size businesses. He is currently working with a variety of firms and individuals helping them with their blogging and Twitter strategies. Prior to his current role, Bill led the Accenture Knowledge Management/Portals client practice and was responsible for numerous knowledge management and portal strategy and implementation engagements. A number of these won industry awards for innovation and effective knowledge sharing. He also served as executive sponsor for the firm’s Plumtree, Epicentric, and Lotus alliances. Bill has written over 100 articles and several books on business uses of the web, knowledge management, learning, and psychology. He is a frequent conference speaker. Prior to consulting, Bill was a Research Associate at Harvard University exploring the effects of media on cognition. He obtained his Ph. D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Toronto. Bill can be reached at his own blog, Portals and KM and through Twitter @billives.
Recent Posts
- - Mainstream Media versus Social Media? Not Really the Right Question.
- - Fun as Major Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Factor
- - An Accountant’s Advice in Making the Business Case for Enterprise 2.0
- - Is Social Media the New Cigarette?
- - Forrester Includes Social Computing in Top 15 Technology Trends Enterprise Architects Should Watch
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All Posts
- - Mainstream Media versus Social Media? Not Really the Right Question.
- - Fun as Major Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Factor
- - An Accountant’s Advice in Making the Business Case for Enterprise 2.0
- - Is Social Media the New Cigarette?
- - Forrester Includes Social Computing in Top 15 Technology Trends Enterprise Architects Should Watch
- - Barriers to Intranet Use from Forrester
- - Implementing Social Bookmarking at Océ
- - Simple Definition of Enterprise 2.0
- - Creating Enterprise Information Architecture at Océ
- - Implementing Enterprise Wikis at Océ
- - Unchain Your Workers Browsers and Set Them Free
- - Is Social Media Like Stopping at the Water Cooler? Going Out for a Smoke? Taking a Nap?
- - Enterprise 2.0 for an Enterprise of One
- - London Turns to Social Media for Image Advice; Boston uses it to Track Bike Thieves
- - Is Management Focusing Too Much on Social Media Lurking and Monitoring?
- - Ross Dawson on Implementing Enterprise 2.0
- - Eight Issues to Consider in Your Enterprise’s Internal Social Software Policy
- - Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Study from AIIM
- - Jakob Nielsen on Enterprise 2.0 Adoption
- - New Study Finds Social Media Becoming Mainstream on Corporate Intranet
- - Allstate’s Social Media Experimentation and Adoption Experiences Through the Good Hands (SM) Community: Part Two Twitter and Summary
- - Allstate’s Social Media Experimentation and Adoption Experiences Through the Good Hands Community: Part One – Background and Blogs
- - Euan Semple Provides Advice on Social Media Adoption
- - A 12 Step Program for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption
- - Social Media Policy Guidelines Can Encourage Use Outside Enterprise and Adoption Within
- - RightNow is Enabling Further Government Adoption of the Cloud
- - My Notes on Dion Hinchcliffe Enterprise 2.0 Conference Workshop – Part Two
- - Mike Gotta’s Reality 2.0: Getting Started with Enterprise Social Networking at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
- - Dion Hinchcliffe Enterprise 2.0 Conference Workshop – Part One
- - Expanding the Role and Capabilities of Search for the Enterprise
- - My Notes and Thoughts on Google Wave Video Demo
- - Launching Social Networks for the Enterprise
- - We Need to Tear Down the Social Media Silos
- - What will be the Business Model for the Cloud as Data and Content Storage Becomes a Utility?
- - MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Keynote Panel Part Four: Cloud Computing
- - MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Part Three: Enterprise 2.0
- - MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Part Two: CIO Leadership and the Bottom Line
- - MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Part One: The Virtual Organization
- - The Sharepoint Sessions – Part One – Dispatches from the Front Lines
- - The Sharepoint Sessions – Part Two – Training Approaches
- - The Sharepoint Sessions – Part Three – Sharepoint Best Practices Conference
- - The Sharepoint Sessions – Part Four – Upcoming Sharepoint Investment Areas
- - Why You Should Keep Blogging in the Age of Twitter
- - What Innovative Uses of Twitter Are You Seeing?
- - 54 knowledge management definitions – and counting…
- - What Twitter Needs to do for Personal Knowledge Management
- - The Fortune 500 Blogs On
- - Components of Social Media Marketing: The Moogis Case by Wyndstorm
- - Scientists Warn of Twitter Dangers But Perhaps Jumped to this Conclusion too Fast
- - With Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Multiple Blogs, is There Any Reason to also use FriendFeed?
- - Nice Comparison of Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0
- - The Future of Web Search
- - Should Enterprise 2.0 Software Vendors Provide Professional Services?
- - Tom Davenport on the Importance of Micro-decisions
- - Enterprise 2.0 Tools Align with McKinsey Steps for Making Good Business Decisions
- - McKinsey Report on Making Enterprise 2.0 Work Brings Back Memories of Process Centric KM in Early 90s.
- - Steve Rubel Says Forrester Says Paying Bloggers is OK Provided There are Disclosures
- - How Three Software Vendors are Using Twitter for Sales, Service, and Brand Monitoring Conversations
- - Humana Opens Up Their Boardroom via Twitter
- - The Airport Waiting Area Syndrome Goes Global with Twitter
- - Who is the Smartest or Dumbest Generation? – Follow on to Tapscott at Fast Forward 09
- - Charlene Li on Social Technologies
- - Orion Corporation’s One Search Experience
- - The Don Tapscott Show at FastFoward 09
- - Phonetic Alphabet: the Information Technology That Keeps On Giving
- - What Does Computer Use Really Do to Our Minds?
- - New White House Blog Published First Post
- - This YouTube Guide is Not for Dummies
- - What to do When You Approach 5,000 Facebook Friends.
- - Enterprise 2.0 2009 Planning Considerations from Mike Gotta via George Dearing via Twitter
- - Did You Vote in the Shorty Awards?
- - Deloitte Declares We Are in a “Media Democracy”
- - Bears and Bulls Ride Social Media into 2009
- - Economist Finds True Believers in Business Value of Social Software
- - Research on the Use of Social Software in the Workplace from IBM
- - You Too Can Become a YouTube Star
- - IBM Activities is a Prime Time Enterprise 2.0 Tool
- - Top Ten Twitter List Contains Many Top Bloggers
- - Forrester Covers the Future of Enterprise 2.0 Technologies in Depth
- - Twitter Turns Down Half Billion Offer from Facebook
- - Announcing Appopedia, a Directory of Enterprise 2.0 Application Reviews
- - Unlocking the Crimson Hexagon in the Web’s Tower of Babel
- - Customer Service Still Matters – Even More Than Ever on the Web
- - Another Enterprise 2.0 Provider Shows Growth – MindTouch – What are You Seeing?
- - The Sharepoint Sessions Revisited – Part Four – Enhancing SharePoint Information Governance
- - The Sharepoint Sessions Revisited – Part Three – Transcending Federated Search
- - The Sharepoint Sessions Revisited – Part Two – EMC Documentum and Sharepoint
- - The Sharepoint Sessions Revisited – Part One – Extending SharePoint Beyond Collaboration
- - Intranet 2.0 Survey from Toby Ward
- - Jeff Han’s Truly Amazing Multi-Touch Sensing Computer Interface
- - Cisco I-Prize Announces its Winner and a Successful Global Collaboration
- - Are Enterprise 2.0 Applications Prices Going to Fall? What About Market Size?
- - Awareness Report Shows Significant Rise in Enterprise Social Media – Will It Continue?
- - Looking at Trends in the Online Customer Experience
- - More on Enterprise Twittering & Dr. Vaine on Corporate Blogging
- - Best Practices for Business Social Networking Sites from Dotser
- - Increasing Number of Brands on Twitter
- - Why and How to SaaS – Jeff Kaplan at Serena Tag
- - What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation?
- - Looking at the Tension in the Collaboration Process
- - Update on the Obama Campaign’s Use of the Web
- - Some 2008 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories – Tell Me More
- - 35+++ Examples of Corporate Social Media in Action from Mashable
- - Will Twitter Grow Forever (Unending Growth Part Two)?
- - Will Wikipedia Grow for Forever?
- - The Next Step in Open Innovation from McKinsey
- - IBM Images in 1975 – How Far Have We Come?
- - Luis Suarez’s E-Mail Liberation – An Inspiration to the Rest of Us
- - The Firefox Story from Mitchell Baker- Engagement and Participation
- - Enterprise 2.0 Case Studies at Cases 2.0
- - More on Web 2.0 is Not Enterprise 2.0
- - Cisco I-Prize – Mining the Web and the World for Innovation
- - Enterprise 2.0 Conference Notes: Reality Check with Andrew McAfee
- - Enterprise 2.0 Application Providers are Blogging
- - Fast Forward Summit Notes: Jeff Fried on Business Transformation Powered by Search
- - Fast Forward Summit Notes – Andrew McAfee
- - Enterprise 2.0 Conference Notes: Three Approaches to Social Computing Platforms
- - Enterprise 2.0 Conference Notes: Simon Revell on the Origins of Enterprise 2.0 at Pfizer
- - Enterprise 2.0 Conference Notes – Pete Fields of Wachovia on What Impresses Senior Executives on Enterprise 2.0 and what Doesn’t Make Much Impact.
- - The Cloud According to Google at Enterprise 2.0
- - iTKO LISA – Software Validation and Testing at the Speed of Enterprise 2.0
- - More on the Twitter Market from Dion Hitchcliffe
- - Hershey Center for Applied Research – Supporting Science 2.0
- - Will the Twitter Application Market Match the FaceBook Application Market?
- - Jon Stewart Must Have Read Our Blog
- - Why Stop at Enterprise 2.0? – IIR Portals, Collaboration and Content conference renamed Enterprise3
- - Awareness Makes a Smart Move with Its Facebook Integration
- - Are Us Bloggers to be Trusted?
- - Enterprise 2.0 is not Web 2.0 nor is it an Oxymoron
- - Social Networking is Climbing the Revenue Projection Ladder
- - SaaS enters e-learning Through SkillSoft
- - Twitter Clouds – Sign of a New Age?
- - Ever Increasing Expansion of SaaS into Multiple Applications
- - Obama’s Answer Center – CRM from RightNow on the Campaign Trail
- - More the Obama Campaign’s Use of Web and Enterprise 2.0 – from Rolling Stone Magazine
- - IBM Connections 2.0 is Supporting Activity Centered Computing
- - How Obama is Using Web (and Enterprise) 2.0 in the US Primary Campaign
- - AGIS: Bringing Web 2.0 to Elder Caregiving
- - Awareness Research on Enterprise 2.0 Adoption
- - J.P. Rangaswami – British Telcom – Discusses the New Polarization
- - Sue Feldman of IDC – Web 2.0 Trends and Success Stories
- - Nice Overview of Enterprise 2.0 Vendors from Jon Husband and Jim Bair
- - We are all Users – John Hagel
- - Tom Davenport at Fast Forward 08
- - Dave Weinberger, Sade, the Stones, and a Nice Message
- - Will Comcast and Other TV People Make Big or Small Moves for their Users?
- - Andrew McAfee at Fast 08 – A Few Thoughts
- - Wikis versus Knowledge Management
- - More on Why Buy The Cow?
- - Enabling Peer-to-Peer Learning within Enterprise 2.0
- - More on IBM and Mashups: SOA Meets Situational Applications (aka Mashups) Part Two: Building the IBM Situational Applications Environment
- - More on IBM and Mashups: SOA Meets Situational Applications (aka Mashups) Part One: Changing computing in the enterprise
- - Top articles of 2007 for McKinsey & Web 2.0 and one prediction for 2008
- - Some of Dion’s Hinchcliffe’s Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
- - Where is Internal IT Going?
- - Remember Intranets?
- - 2008 AIIM Content Management Conference
- - More on Circular Progress in Social Media?
- - Circular Progress in Social Media?
- - Worklight Enters the Enterprise Facebook Market
- - Using Blogs for Project Management & Review at Bridgespan
- - QuickBase Targets Large Scale Enterprise 2.0 Applications with New Initiatives
- - Blogging at Society for New Communications Research: Part One
- - Social Media Success Stories: SNCR 2007 Winners: Part Two
- - Social Media and Non-Profits at the SNCR: Part Three
- - Online Communities & Virtual Worlds from SNCR: Part Four
- - Social Media Global Trends from SNCR: Part Five
- - Serena Releases Free Pre-Packaged Mashups for Common Business Processes
- - Yugma: Accessible Web Meetings and Collaboration Services
- - More Web 2.0 Stories, Part Two: Proctor & Gamble Embraces the Wisdom of the Web for New Product Ideas
- - More Web 2.0 Stories, Part One: Cisco Goes All Out on Enterprise 2.0
- - Serena has Adopted Facebook as Their Intranet
- - Connectbeam: Combining Social Bookmarking and Social Networking
- - The IT folks are People Too
- - Notes from the Mashup Camp on How Web 2.0 is Shifting the Programming Model
- - Daptiv: Moving Beyond Online Project Management
- - Is IT looking over its shoulder at Web 2.0?
- - It is Time for Facebook Fridays: A Idea that Should Spread
- - XM Radio and QuickBase: Changing Organization Behavior through Enterprise 2.0
- - InsideView: Market Intelligence for Enterprise 2.0
- - QuickBase: Enterprise 2.0 Application Builder for Business Users
- - Post Script on Twitter and its Mashups
- - Letting Facebook and MySpace into the Enterprise?
- - illumio – a Smart Content and Request Filter for Enterprise 2.0
- - Bringing Social Network Analysis to Google Enterprise Search Through iQuest
- - Wrike: Online Project Management for the Rest of Us
- - IBM’s use of Mashups: aka Situational Applications
- - CIO-led Collaborative Innovation through Enterprise 2.0 at IBM: A Useful Model
- - A New Twist on Enterprise 2.0 – aka Using Extranet 2.0 to Collect the Wisdom of Customer Crowds
- - Many Ways to get Enterprise 2.0 Going
- - Forrester Provides More Tips on Implementing Enterprise Web 2.0
- - Enterprise Wiki Increases Collaboration and Connections at Janssen-Cilag
- - Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference Call for Papers
- - Enterprise Mashups from Serena Software
- - Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Event
- - Twitter Enters the Enterprise?
- - KM World 2007 Enters Enterprise 2.0
- - Some Wiki Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0
- - Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Movies from IBM
- - Enterprise 2.0 Examples of Managing Projects in the Tools and Food Industries
- - eProject – Enterprise 2.0 Collaborative Business Applications
- - Another Enterprise Blog and Wiki Success Story from Traction – Shore Bank
- - Enterprise Blog and Wiki Success Story from Traction Software – UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Orkney
- - Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Awareness.
- - Using Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 for World Health Goals
- - Awareness – Enterprise 2.0 Platform
- - Jive Software – Enterprise 2.0 Collaborative Platform
- - What is Enterprise 2.0? Fred Cavazza
- - CircleUp – Potential for Enhancing Group Messaging within the Enterprise
- - Cogenz – Enterprise 2.0 Social Bookmarking
- - Why are They Waiting for Wikis? – Search CIO
- - CIO Magazine Takes to Enterprise 2.0
- - Reflections on Business Impacts of Web 2.0 within and beyond the Enterprise: Part Two – User Generated Content Success at Little League Baseball
- - Reflections on Business Impacts of Web 2.0 within and beyond the Enterprise: Part One
- - Google Makes More Moves in the Enterprise Market
- - What can Aristotle say to Bloggers? (Inside and Outside the Enterprise)
- - To Align or Not to Align? How Structured Should Enterprise 2.0 Initiatives Be?
- - A Story on User Generated Content within the Firewall (and what does it say about implementing transparency)
- - The Paradox of Enterprise Knowledge Management: What Does it mean for Enterprise 2.0
- - Enterprise 2.0 Conference – Boston
- - Enterprise 2.0 Lessons from YouTube
- - Words of Wisdom from 1994
- - Where Are We Going? What will be Enterprise 20.0?
- - A Bit More on Good 2.0 Design
- - The Dark Side of Enterprise 2.0
- - Changing Minds within the Enterprise
- - Six Degrees Join Yahoo to go after the Web 2.0 Market
- - Web 2.0 Transparency Attempts to Infiltrate the US Congress
- - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation?
- - Where to provide transparency and where to provide privacy?
- - The Next Step in Video Distribution on the Web could also work within the Enterprise
- - What is the Role of ECM in Enterprise 2.0?
- - The Scope of Personal Outsourcing
- - Taping into the Social Side of Content within the Enterprise
- - Bringing in all the Stakeholders
- - Transparency, Literacy, Interpretation, and the Enterprise
- - Creating Successful Niche Content Spaces on the Web: Lessons for Enterprise 2.0
- - Swimming with Your Peers
- - Post Script to: Is Blogging Inside the Firewall an Oxymoron?
- - Is Blogging Inside the Firewall an Oxymoron?
- - More Enterprise 2.0 Studies
- - Enterprise 2.0 Success Story within a US Hospital
- - Enterprise 2.0 Wars: Coming Attractions?
- - Another Move on the Social Side of High Bandwidth Content
- - Enterprise Trial Balloon Sites Part Two: Voting
- - Trial Balloon Blogs
- - 10 Best Intranets of 2006: Nielson Normal Group
- - Adopting New Technology
- - Fear and Trembling in the Enterprise
- - Where Knowledge Management 1.0 Worked
- - The Inc 500 and Social Media
- - Useful Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
- - My Twelve Tips for Gaining Adoption
- - Latest IBM and Microsoft Social Networking Moves
- - Internet vs Intranet vs. Enterprise 2.0 Search
- - An Enterprise 2.0 Poster Child in the IT Department
- - Big Consulting Firms Turning to Social Media (aka) Enterprise 2.0?
- - Post script to Intranet Social Bookmarking
- - Intranet Social Bookmarking: Tagging Behind the Firewall
- - Microsoft and Enterprise 2.0
- - IBM and Enterprise 2.0
- - Introduction
- - DIY KM and Recruitment
- - Wikipedia Gone Amuck?
- - Escape from Blackberry
- - Will Enterprise Web 2.0 totally transform enterprise knowledge management?





