Developments continue apace – we’ll be keeping track… Industry transactions News Corp offers $5 billion for the Dow Jones, including the Wall Street Journal (finalized July 2007). Layoffs and closures There are 4,391 media layoffs in the US in first quarter of 2007 are, up 93% on the same period in 2006. The Chinese version of MySpace, launched April 2007, filters “inappropriate content”. MORE >>

27 juillet 2007, If “ Web 2.0 &# was 2006’s buzzword, we begin to hear much of Enterprise 2.0. Example: fixing volume objectives, i.e. 10 posts by month. And this is the same for regular visitors of corridor meetings and smoking rooms, they discuss, meet, connect, forward, relay… they act as enablers for social interactions between employees. Plazes is a nice example of how this social presence services can be used. ’ vom Juli 2007 [.] MORE >>

« Wordless Wednesday – Broken Link Making Mutual Introductions on LinkedIn » Best of Linked Intelligence 2007 As we draw the year to a close, I thought it would be a good idea to do a wrap-up of some of the best posts of the year. A few posts here on Linked Intelligence were among the most popular: LinkedIn As Resume 2.0 , Using LinkedIn to Find Celebrity Guests , Using LinkedIn to Make the Sale and Following Up on Inside Connections at Potential Employers. MORE >>

Main | Space and tools impacts thinking » 8/10/07 | The billiard ball example By Shawn. I point out that there are so many connections among the objects affecting the system and many of the cause and effect relationships are non-linear (a small thing can have a big impact and vice versa). Every now and then someone will say, “but if you could work out all those connections you could predict the outcome.” MORE >>

Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « E-mail Bankruptcy? Of course this is purely anecdotal (n = 1, kind of a small sample size), but the adoption of tools like Office 2007 and especially SharePoint 2007 have been taking off and driving a ton of activity in KMAs (Microsoft Information Worker Gold Partner) world. MORE >>