There are a lot less physical eye-to-eye interactions in companies today and in the foreseeable future. Such examples include: Conferences (internal, sales, learning, social, etc.). The water cooler becomes ones and zeros as opposed to a refreshing splash of social reality. Phase 2 : July, 2004 through July 2008. MORE >>

was impressed that they had brought together around 40 managers and executives from across the company to spend two days thinking in a very open format about what internal communication could and should be like, and how to create that. This issue ties together internal and external social media. Social media Social networks Web 2.0 MORE >>

She’s an author , runs a blog , has her own company , and generally looks to be more than successful in her career. Mobilizing social networks beyond project team frontiers: The case of polar expeditions ; Lecoutre, Marc; Lièvre, Pascal. collaboration social learning social networking knowledge leadership strong ties weak ties MORE >>

1) Social Learning. That is social learning. If employee generated videos might be termed social learning — as depicted from number one in the list above — there is an opportunity to use the video sharing application to curate and post videos from people outside of your organization. Well well well. MORE >>

I recently wrote Why conversational skills are needed to create a high-performance, engaged, networked organization , reflecting on an executive roundtable discussion I lead as part of the 21st anniversary celebrations of the Graduate School of Business of the University of New England. Email is not going to die, but it is reducing,” he said. MORE >>