Collaborator's Dilemma Future Salon on Thursday 17th of September 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Please RSVP http://budurl.com/6qx6
Many of you don't know that I am one of the people that built the very vibrant SAP Community Network: 1.8 million members and ~7000 posts per day in the forums.
When we started 6 years ago, very few people saw the power of community, collaboration or co-creation. The big advantage for us was, that we had a lot of freedom to experiment and try things out: Blogs, Wiki, point system, face to face meetings, while expanding our reach outside as well as within SAP.
By now the world has awoken to the opportunity that an active community brings with it, even though I believe we are just scratching the surface of the possibilities.
What we have done was mostly grassroots. Yes, we had a mandate from the board to create a developer community, but not one to apply the community advantages to all aspects of the business.
This is why I am so happy about this months' Future Salon speaker Nilofer Merchant. She has almost finished her book: The New How Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy.
How do you best run your company with the new realities of collaboration and co-creation? That question and many more will be answered this Thursday the 17th at the Collaborator's Dilemma Future Salon.
Don't miss this talk, it is going to be amazing.
Nilofer is walking the talk of collaboration and is sharing her slides on SlideShare.
You can also find her on Twitter @nilofer: http://twitter.com/Nilofer
By the way Future Salon is also active: @futuresalon http://twitter.com/futuresalon
Praise for Nilofer this week on twitter:
RT: @suemarks Fantastic preso by @nilofer today at Pinstripe. -- Next week's Future Salon speaker :-) Can't wait http://tinyurl.com/mkfc2x
RT: @SueMarks: @futuresalon thx for the RT! @nilofer was great!
Cartoon from the book drawn by Huge Macleod aka @gapingvoid reprinted with permission.
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the presentation followed by questions and discussion.
SAP Labs North America, Building D, COIL (Co-Innovation Lab). SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public. Please spread the word and invite others, but be sure to RSVP http://budurl.com/6qx6 so we know how many people to expect.
We will do our best to webcast the event again via Ustream.tv on the Future Salon Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Future-Salon
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