Salesforce.com’s social network application was inspired by Facebook. Connections to friends and colleagues, like Facebook and LinkedIn. You probably can’t afford, and definitely don’t need, to create your own Facebook or Google behind your firewall. Many workers narrate their work on individual blogs. itashare. MORE >>

More than anything else, because in the last three months, while I was mostly away from this blog, I kept bumping into a couple of relatively new challenges  that I think are going to present lots of great opportunities for us all in the year ahead in the space of Social Business. Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts in 2012 at [link]. MORE >>

Blogs, wikis, podcasts, peer-to-peer sharing, aggregators, social media and personal knowledge management are all emergent phenomena, unlike the top-down tools and content that traditional e-learning has provided. After developing the first courses on the hugely successful University of Phoenix, he set up the Internet Time Group. 2004). MORE >>

The trend may have started with Facebook and Twitter being used inside company firewalls as a toe in the water, but it quickly shifted to specific social media tools being developed for specific corporate uses. Originally posted to T+D Magazine, January 2011 Edition. Reprinted here with permission. original link here ). More with less. MORE >>

followed by lots of additional self-reflection and learning on the sides from watching video clips, mainly of conference event recordings available on YouTube and, eventually, come back to the blog to reflect on some of the stuff I have learned in the process. Thus, where is your  blog in all of this? And today has been no different. MORE >>