How Revolutionary is Social? by , for

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We've all sat in a meeting or overheard someone talking on the train or while at lunch about the latest, greatest social technology, and about how it has changed the way they do their work,... read more

The Need for the User Profile by , for

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How often do you update your online profile? Maybe the bigger question is: how many online profiles do you maintain? For me, my primary profiles are Facebook and LinkedIn. Facebook doesn't f... read more

Activity Streams Are Not the Killer App by , for

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Expert blogger David Lavenda wrote an interesting piece for the Fast Company blog which essentially paints activity streams as the email-killer. While Twitter provides a sort if activity stream,... read more

The Power of Decentralization by , for

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Back in 2001, I joined a venture capital-backed startup to help design and deploy a hosted collaboration platform for high-tech manufacturing companies and their extensive ecosystems of design a... read more

Just Be Genuine by , for

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One of the more difficult aspects of the new world of marketing in a social computing paradigm is throttling your communications. Twitter is fleeting. Unless you've hit on a specific hashtag... read more

Increased Productivity Means Focusing on Adoption by , for

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Increasing productivity without increasing demand is part of the problem in our current recession, and if you look closely at the data, has been an issue with the US economy for more than a deca... read more

The New Normal of Social Sidling by , for

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Remember that great episode of Seinfeld where Elaine was plagued by an annoying officemate who seemed to always appear at the right moment to mistakenly get credit for work he did not do, and wa... read more

Stop Complaining and Improve Your Search by , for

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Upload a single document into a brand new system, and search is going to be fairly simple. One document, one possible search result. Easy. Likewise, upload dozens, hundreds, thousands of doc... read more

Contextualization is the End Goal in KM by , for

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I found myself in Vancouver BC last night, having dinner with my good friends Sherman Woo (@spsherm), Michal Pisarek (@michalpisarek) and Paul Culmsee (@paulculmsee) talking about food, travel,... read more

Quantity, Not Necessarily Quality, Matters by , for

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I overheard two friends in as many days making the same comments about their social networks -- they were in the process of shutting down their networks, decreasing the number of people they con... read more