Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Lee White
Messaging with the boss much? Maybe you ought to be. Workers who have strong communication ties with their managers tend to bring in more money than those who steer clear of the boss, according to a new analysis of social networks in the workplace by IBM (IBM) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Read the full article at www.businessweek.com
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Thomas Vander Wal
I’ve been back reading through blogs, presentations, articles, tweets and well just about every thing I can manage over the last week to resolve questions in my head as to why so many Social Media “Experts” or “Gurus” seem to think of social media as breaking down walled gardens (silos) and destroying hierarchies inherent in much of culture, business and online systems – and that this is a good thing or indeed what is actually happening?
Read the full article at www.exponere.com
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Jenny Lwabandji Kindja
Burton Group, a research and consulting firm focused on in-depth analysis of enterprise information technologies, has conducted a detailed field study analyzing social networking within the enterprise.
Almost universally, organizations participating in the study felt they were behind their competitors — or the market in general — when it came to internal social networking initiatives. Based on the results of this study, Burton Group concludes that such perceptions are unfounded. Many organizations are yet to make an enterprise-wide decision on social networking tools. Even in those organizations that have set a direction, many of those projects are in proof-of-concept or early stages of deployment.
Read the full article at ccsblog.burtongroup.com
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Gregory Culpin
It used to be that if a link was worth sharing, people would bookmark it for all to see on del.icio.us. Now, they just Twitter it (with a shortened URL). Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to separate out all the Tweets with links in them, and sort them by time or popularity? That is what MicroPlaza does in a nutshell.
Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Gregory Culpin
People used to whisper to each other or pass hand-scribbled notes during presentations. Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms.
Up until now, this back-channel has been mainly confined to the Internet industry and technology conferences. However, a survey of leadership conferences from Weber Shandwick shows that there is a significant increase in blogging and twittering at conferences.
So the next time you present at a conference, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. The challenge is how to adapt to presenting with the back-channel.
Read the full article at pistachioconsulting.com
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Olivier Verbeke
MicroPlaza provides you with a personalized memetracker based on the links that your friends share on Twitter. While we have seen a fair number of Twitter memetrackers, none of them feature the degree of personalization that MicroPlaza offers. If you follow a very diverse set of people on Twitter, you can also track micro-communities thanks to MicroPlaza’s ‘Tribes’ feature, which lets you organize users into different groups. MicroPlaza is currently in private beta testing, but you can get a glimpse of its non-personalized features on its home page.
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Gregory Culpin
“I’ve had a chance to be one of the early users of MicroPlaza and have come away very impressed. The site maps all links shared by the people you follow on Twitter and displays them by popularity (the number of times they have been retweeted) or by date in a Techeme-style link + sources view. MicroPlaza is great for a few reasons.” by Josh Catone
Read the full article at www.sitepoint.com
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Olivier Verbeke
What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right now about any imaginable subject or event? Well, then you’d have a different kind of search engine altogether. A real-time search engine. A what’s-happening-right-now search engine.
Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Olivier Verbeke
Obama is stimulating. Davos is deliberating. C-levels are eliminating. Wall St is recriminating. Welcome to the macropocalypse: no one, it seems, can put the global economy back together again.
It’s time to reboot capitalism. So where do we begin?
Here’s a suggestion for what should be at the top of agenda of every decision-maker across the economy, from Davos, to Obama, to Sand Hill Road, to the revolutionaries in tiny garages hatching tomorrow’s Googles: reconceiving growth.
Read the full article at blogs.harvardbusiness.org
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Xavier Bartholome
Most enterprises actually have a fair number of compelling options right now if they are willing to think outside the box. While some might look at the social aspects of things like Web 2.0 as marginal subjects when things get tough, nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to the deeper implications of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.
Read the full article at blogs.zdnet.com
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