MIT Sloan Management Review together with Deloitte have just launched 2012 Social Business Global Executive Study and Research Project , drawing out some very interesting insights from a survey of almost 3,500 executives from 115 countries. Social Business: What Are Companies Really Doing? – Survey Questions and Answers. MORE >>

Of all the social media platforms microblogging is the most akin to conversation,” he said. in January 2009, I included in the “Tools” section Wikis, Blogs, Social Networks, RSS and Syndication, Social Bookmarking, and Microblogging. It needs to be a central element to building successful social business. MORE >>

Three recent posts have done a great job of showing where we are in the spread of Enterprise 2.0 –  the use of emergent social software platforms by companies to get work done. Social Business.&# She makes a brilliant point: Culture will change as  a result of the pervasive use of social tools.  Conference. MORE >>

The single biggest group of books and articles we read, though, had to do with business as a social system. Social Network Theory, particularly Mark Granovetter’s 1973 paper “ The Strength of Weak Ties “ James MacGregor Burns’s ideas on leadership as collaboration, developed during the 1970s. In the 2.0 MORE >>

have enormous respect for Phil, one of the most insightful analysts regarding software trends. am a loyal reader of both his Loosely Coupled and Software as Services blog. One significant barrier delaying deployment of these technologies is the cultural gap separating many of the early pioneers of Web 2.0 and social software. MORE >>