An extreme example of this is LinkedIn, the social networking site helping to connect business people based on profile data and knowledge about networks of relationships. Collaboration in turn breaks down into three very different types of collaboration – commentary, conversations and construction. Dont Count On It. Identity creation. MORE >>

Product innovation and commercialization businesses (PIC) – businesses that focus on developing innovative new products and services, getting them into market quickly and accelerating adoption of the products - think of semiconductor firms operating without their own fab facilities as relatively pure play examples of these businesses. MORE >>

have some of my earliest articles - which are still on mypage now - are from ’95, including, for example, a transcript from an onlineconference that we hosted. These were all dated, these were all posted on my website and sothat became my daily newsletter. So, Ihave two forms of blogging – the articles and the newsletter. don’t.I MORE >>

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail offers a great contemporary example of the Pareto probability distribution – a few extreme events or “blockbusters” on the left hand side of the curve and a very long tail of much less popular events on the right hand side of the curve. Sorry about the trivial and banal example with Gmail and Twitter. MORE >>

Existing Adoption At the very start I asked the audience for examples of where they were currently using these tools as part of learning solutions. DogEar – Social Bookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Tools? Web 2.0 MORE >>