Social collaboration technologies such as internal instances of blogging, micro-blogging, video sharing, discussion forums, idea sharing, wikis, and so on are all key aspects of being collaborative. Which brings me to the question, “ Should employees be incented to use social technologies ?”. Yes – We Should Incent Employees. And You? MORE >>

Melcrum recently released a report on How to use social media to solve critical communication issues , with as usual some great case studies and many practical insights. was asked to write the closing section in the report, on The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications. Email use will be eroded by social media. MORE >>

The structure of a social network — for example, whether it is made up of close friends and colleagues or of like-minded strangers who follow Lady Gaga — can have more influence than the size of a group, researchers say. Source : Modeling Information Diffusion in Implicit Networks. MORE >>

'Or, to put it in other words, automation of your social networking presence. Have we forgotten that with social networking for business we are all in it for the long run? Where did we leave behind the social business transformation? practitioner, specially, in the Social Web. Yes, it happens. And what for? MORE >>

During the evening I had a very interesting conversation with one of the regional directors about how professional service firms are tapping external networks. As I wrote in Chapter 9 of Living Networks : Professional networks, although hardly a new phenomenon, are rapidly rising in importance. MORE >>