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“Life is “trying things to see if they work”. -Ray Bradbury

“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” -Charles Dickens

“Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” -Thomas Edison

“Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it” -Albert Einstein

“Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information” -T.S. Eliot

“Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can’t, you’re absolutely right” -Henry Ford

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”  -Nikos Kazantzakis

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”      -Sir. Isaac Newton

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Many companies use Yammer to drive innovation and especially idea generation / development within their company. They often learn that it is fairly easy to recruit people for the Yammer platform which lets employees share and connect with coworkers in a private, secure enterprise social network.

It is, however, much more difficult to keep the users engaged over time. So what kind of engagement drivers work for innovation initiatives on Yammer? I am wondering and it would be great to hear your take on this. Here you get my starters.

First, I think we need to divide the approach into three key elements: Awareness, Facilitated content and User-generated content.

1. Awareness

Short, focused bursts aimed to build awareness of the Yammer initiative, make existing users more active and recruit new ones. This could be a 2-3 week challenge in which you ask the users for their input on a specific issue.

Imagine a company that wants to innovate how they innovate. Perhaps you can share your thoughts on how to do this.

• What should they consider when they build a challenge around this on their Yammer platform?
• How should this challenge be framed? How do you make it specific beyond the very broad “innovate how we innovate” issue?
• Should you reward people for their engagement and if so what is the best way to reward them?
• How do you create buzz around such a challenge as well as the Yammer initiative in general?

It would be great if you have some insights on this particular challenge.

Steve Shapiro also shares good insights on challenge-driven innovation here on Innovation Excellence.

2. Facilitated Content

This is about delivering quality content on a frequent basis making users accustomed to getting value for their time spent in the community. This could be weekly posts that give a “how to” perspective and offers further insights (links to relevant articles). Beyond sharing insights, another key element for such content should be that it drives discussions. Facilitated content could also be something as simple as inspiring quotes or fun cartoons. Both have a high viral potential.

A good facilitator is key for making this happen. Unfortunately, many companies do not assign the right person for this task (requires good understanding of corporate innovation process and thus corporate needs / assets / weaknesses / strengths, good writing skills and a good understanding of social media). It could also be that the right person is assigned, but not given the adequate resources (time, training) needed to succeed.

3. User Generated Content

This is where the community begins to become self-sustainable. I would suggest that it is a good sign of success once your community goes above 50% when it comes to user-generated content compared to the action driven by awareness campaigns and facilitated content.

Here you need to be aware of the 100-10-1 rule which states that out of 100 people, only 10 will follow the discussions and only 1 will post or write themselves. This will most likely be better in smaller, focused settings as you have with corporate Yammer initiatives, but it does imply that a certain critical mass is needed.

When it comes to implementation hurdles of Yammer initiatives, two in particular stand out.

• A general lack of understanding of social media
• Lack of commitment and engagement from top and middle management

Experimentation and the “small wins” approach is key to overcoming these hurdles.

When it comes to goal-setting on Yammer initiatives, this might give you some inspiration:

• Short-term: create experiences to allow your company to develop social media competences relevant for innovation
• Mid-term: engage people on social media services and tools for innovation efforts
• Long-term: have social media as an important element in external innovation networks

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6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012
Josh Constine, techcrunch.com

“In the future we might not pre­scribe drugs all the time, we might pre­scribe apps.” Sin­gu­lar­i­ty Uni­ver­si­ty‘s exec­u­tive direc­tor of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to dis­cuss the biggest emerg­ing trends in HealthTech. Her…

A lot of signals point to that the whole society soon (starting in 2012?) will reframe our views of health care into a more individualized and technical perspective. This will provide a tremendous challenge for the health care organizations in the developed world which until now have basically an unaltered organizational model based on the ideas of mass production.

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"The Web Cannot Deliver Yet."

parislemon:

A pretty damning report from Brian X. Chen for The New York Times. It essentially says that Palm and then HP were incompetent with their building and management of webOS.

But even more damning may be what it says about the “web versus native” debate. Quoting Paul Mercer, the former senior director of software for Palm:

“If the bar is to build Cupertino-class software in terms of responsiveness and beauty,” he said, “WebKit remains not ready for prime time, because the Web cannot deliver yet.”

This is interesting since Apple itself was vital in the development of WebKit and still uses it as the backbone of Safari. But consider this: when the iPhone first launched in 2007, Apple tried to get third party developers to make web apps for the iPhone since there was no native development SDK. A year later, they backed down from that and released the framework that created the most important element of the iOS ecosystem: third-party native apps.

It’s perhaps a bit too simplistic to say, but Palm didn’t have the luxury to pivot to native because “native” for webOS is the web. And Mercer argues that it’s still not ready to match native app development — a topic which is entering its fourth year of debate.

I can’t speak from the developer side of things, but all I know is what I see as a user: native apps still destroy web apps. Starting this week, I’m sure we’re going to hear how that’s poised to change (yet again) in 2012. But I doubt it. And that’s why webOS is still screwed. 

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