The Global Human Capital Journal - Practice

How Social Networks Make Markets More Efficient for Buyers and Sellers

nospam@example.com (Christopher S. Rollyson) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:29:00 -0500

Using LinkedIn to Change the Rules of Business Development

Since the early 2000s, everyone has struggled to develop measurable economic models for social media and Web 2.0, mostly with little success. During 2007 and 2008, CSRA has worked with clients on several levels hammering out models to pass enterprise muster, and here I will briefly share one that shows considerable promise for its practicality and utility to businesses. The immediate context is B2B business development and sales, but it is applicable to numerous other enterprise processes as well.

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Inside the Innovation of the New Fall 2008 Executive's Guide to LinkedIn Seminars

nospam@example.com (Christopher S. Rollyson) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:50:08 -0500

Multidimensional Innovation—Inviting Collaboration—Crowdsourcing via LinkedIn

In August, I have been intensely involved in developing the next iteration of executive LinkedIn training (the Executive's Guide to LinkedIn, EGLI), which has proven as illuminating as it has fruitful, so I will share key elements of the quick innovation approach I used as well as how Linkedin contributed to it. I believe that by collaborating with EGLI alumni and other people in my network, I have fielded the most innovative and valuable offering ever. I'd love to get your feedback, too! (links below)

The first seminar series kicked off in March and ended in June, and by all accounts it succeeded in delivering extensive information to relatively large groups in a classroom format (more on the spring/summer series). However, due to the large class size, there was a limited opportunity to draw people out. Actually, we did have significant interaction, but we were limited in how we could apply the information that was our focus.

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New Category Debuts on Global Human Capital

nospam@example.com (Christopher S. Rollyson) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:32:47 -0500

"Practice" Will Highlight Behind the Curtain Enterprise Innovation with Web 2.0

I am pleased to announce the creation of "Practice," an exciting new Category on the Global Human Capital Journal. Practice is the first new category I've created since launch in 2005. It will give you behind-the-scenes insights into the innovation I am conducting with clients in my consultancy, CSRA. For example, the new CSRA Social Network Roadmap is attracting extensive attention from Fortune 1000 executives in many industries: utilities, consultancies and market research firms to name three. We will begin using the roadmap to assess, test and scale their companies' use of social networks and Web 2.0.

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