As is quite often the case these days, my client asked me to combine two of the topics from my general list of speaking topics , bringing together the ideas from The Power of Social Media and The Future of Work and Organizations. Keynote: The Power of Social Media and Future Organizations. Here are the slides to my keynote. MORE >>

Since the collective intelligence of many – or even most – human organizations is significantly less than the intelligence of many of its participants, there are no doubt lessons we can learn. In my book Living Networks I included a small section on Creating adaptive systems in Chapter 6 on Network Presence. MORE >>

When young Ricardo Sousa – organizer of the Switch Conference – invited me to speak there, I almost instantly knew that serendipity would be the topic. Serendipity is for me a deeply meaningful word. One of the reasons I love Twitter so much is that it provides a rich substrate for serendipitous connections. You must experience it to know it. MORE >>

For the last decade I have examined and applied social network analysis in and across organizations, for example in large professional firms , technology purchase decision-making , high-performance personal networks , and other applications. However this is often difficult in large, complex organizations. Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

A major challenge for organizations that are considering internal social media initiatives is that a business case including a financial justification is frequently required. However if the organization requires a financial case, then those seeing the opportunity need to do what they can to create the case. hope you find it useful! MORE >>