Despite their broad usage and economic scale (exceeding the sale of movie theater tickets in the US) and the valiant efforts of analysts like Steven Berlin Johnson , video games have always retained an “edge” identity, viewed with suspicion by “high culture”. The challenge for any educational entity is how to harness social media learning. MORE >>

These collaborative, social networks nicely complement the strengths and weaknesses of a companys classic hierarchy. Posted by: Martin Koser | October 16, 2007 at 10:24 AM Sermo is a start, Irving (www.sermo.com). We need to better harness the power of our 350K people networking. There is virtually no middle management. MORE >>

On October 7, 2007, venerable tech giant SAP announced its intention to acquire Business Objects , in a “ friendly takeover ”, for roughly $6.8b. Through 2003 and 2007, I was also a part of many acquisitions that Business Objects made to help bolster its business intelligence technology and sales capabilities. It made it like a family. MORE >>

Social network mapping and analysis skills. Today we are not often working in the confines of boundaried communities (see Post 2) so being able to see and understand the larger network is critical. Ditto for social network mapping and analysis. Social network mapping is a skill that people need to learn. MORE >>

This keyed in with another article I had been reading about Jonathan Lethem and copyright and even a conversation via post&comments that I had been following on Will Richardson and Dave Cormiers blogs respectively about a new degree being offered by the University of Michigan in Social Computing. " So where am I going with all this? MORE >>