Serendipity is for me a deeply meaningful word. The more than dozen posts discussing serendipity on my blog include how we created “enhanced serendipity&# at an event I ran in 2003 in New York , more details on the story of the word serendipity and how to enhance it , the importance of the “serendipity dial&# and far more. MORE >>

TechCrunch has reported (and close-as-dammit confirmed) that Yahoo! will close down Delicious. If so, it's close to a tragedy. Social bookmarks have been one of the defining aspects of Web 2.0. As described in our Web 2.0 Framework , sharing in very simple ways can create value for many. Many have called for Yahoo! But I’m not holding my breath. MORE >>

Earlier today I noticed it’s three years since my life on Twitter began. At the time I wrote about my belated entry to Twitterland. It now seems strange to me that I was such a late starter compared to many other connected folk, given that Twitter is now so central to my life. now know that blogs and Twitter are highly complementary. MORE >>

For the last decade I have examined and applied social network analysis in and across organizations, for example in large professional firms , technology purchase decision-making , high-performance personal networks , and other applications. However this is often difficult in large, complex organizations. Source : IBM Creative Leadership Report. MORE >>

New York Times today examines the interesting question of Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t , starting from the fact that frivolous hashtags such as #worstpickuplines get far more attention than commentary on current affairs such as ‘Mubarak’, and going on to look at a range of research on influence. MORE >>