The New York Times just ran an article called, “Antisocial Networking?” in the Sunday Styles section. The cut line reads: Experts wonder if technology keeps children connected or diminishes their ability to read social cues and interact the old-fashioned way.

My take-away

The idea I took away from it is that people are worrying that friendship the way we know it is a dying breed due to social networking. I think that’s probably true, but I’m not sure how important that is.

And, companies that facilitate this natural progression are sure to win on many fronts regarding:

• Innovation
• Engagement
• Recognition
• Development
• Community

Source: www.goodcompanyblog.com Posted by bee 747 days, 16 hours, 57 minutes ago

Why the 'Real-Time Web' Matters - A lot

@cshirky Sorry for saying I don't care about your passing thoughts (or mine, or anyone else's). Apparently, I do.

That was a tweet I sent out the other day, linking to the New York 140 Character Conference. Actually, the tweet was more like a caw, since I was eating crow. Back in 2008, I'd been trying to get NYU Professor Clay Shirky to explain to me why anyone could possibly give a crap about strangers' or friends' (or for that matter fantasy-sex-partners') micro-news that, for instance, they'd just boarded a plane to Tulsa.

Source: www.stumbleupon.com Posted by bee 749 days, 4 hours, 27 minutes ago

The truth is that you don’t have time not to implement new and more effective ways of working. Of course there’s an overhead cost, because until you try out different resources it’s not always obvious which ones will work best. However, the organization doesn’t explore new ways of working it will increasingly lag behind the curve. Who would employ a plumber who still used lead pipes? Same argument applies.

Source: www.philb.com Posted by bee 752 days, 15 hours, 54 minutes ago

by Martin Amm

Business content comes from all over. Not only do companies aggregate structured and unstructured information from various sources in traditional Intranets, but also they're confronted with the handling of other content types such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, forums, micro feeds and profile pages.

What's the name of the solution?

The number of solutions to handle different content types is exploding. Like the name "Intranet," the names of these solutions are all over the place with little agreement on what's the right name for it.

Source: intranetblog.blogware.com Posted by bee 756 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes ago

When it comes to internal communications, global technology giant Dell may have hit on the perfect storm: a social media platform, dubbed EmployeeStorm, which culls ideas from all of its business units and fosters discussion among employees.

Launched nearly a year ago, EmployeeStorm allows Dell’s worldwide community of more than 80,000 employees to post and discuss ideas on topics ranging from product upgrades and innovation to critiques of company policies, facilities improvements and benefits.

Source: www.thesocialworkplace.com Posted by bee 759 days, 16 hours, 16 minutes ago

One of the factors we have found in the successful implementation of a corporate intranet is the ‘personality’ factor. At its surface, this may seem to be a fluff aspect of what you need to plan for, but I am here to assure you that it is a critical piece of the puzzle in constructing and executing on an intranet that will achieve all you want it to for your organization.

The personality factor is reflected in the way in which you choose to set your intranet up. Will the intranet be more task based or community based? Does the balance between those two aspects mirror the corporate culture? If not, you could be facing an uphill battle in adoption and ongoing usage.

Source: page10.ning.com Posted by bee 761 days, 17 hours, 14 minutes ago

Vocabulary, vocabulary! The word "community" is just as difficult as "social" when you're talking with senior management.

*They are trigger words that can make or break your pitch to management. *

'Community': strong views for or againstThe word "community" can be a good word or a bad word, depending on who you're talking with. I recently worked with an organization where the word "community" is interpreted at the senior level to mean "sharing", "breaking silos", "knowledge'" and "innovation". There is se...

Source: www.netjmc.net Posted by bee 762 days, 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

He described how the new reality for any organization to successfully attain business goals in a post-recession world (“The New Normal”), it must first invert its value pyramid and place employees at the top, creating an environment where the employees are the initiators of transformation and the managers are the supporters who make that transformation reality.

Source: www.thesocialworkplace.com Posted by bee 762 days, 22 hours ago

By Dan Pontefract I’m lucky to be a member of the 2.0 Adoption Council, founded by Susan Scrupski. As a member, I have access to a plethora of sharing, information and intellect as it relates to how individuals are driving Enterprise 2.0 in their respective organization.

Naively, it donned on me recently that the members come from everywhere in the organization; IT, Learning, HR, Consulting, Customer-Facing and even Social Media specific teams.

Source: www.danpontefract.com Posted by bee 763 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

by Luis Suarez

I have always wondered when would articles like eMarketer’s "Social Not a Threat to E-Mail" grab that opportunity of providing a bit more of extensive details on the transition that email is currently going through at the moment moving away from being, consistently, that content repository that fits, and suits all sorts of interactions, to that messaging and notification system, a la newsfeed aggregator, that plenty of people prefer in order to keep up to date with social software tools updates. I bet we would all be much better off.

Enterprise microsharing will help you reduce your incoming emails (As well as those going out!) and move across most of those conversations away from your Inbox into open social spaces where everyone can contribute and participate.

Source: www.elsua.net Posted by bee 767 days, 17 hours, 13 minutes ago