West Advanced Technologies, Bellcore, and IBM. Michael serves on IBMs Collaboration Invention Development Team. Projects: Social Software Application Health Metrics and Analytics for Social Software Unified Activity Management Instant Collaboration / ActivityExplorer Designers Community of Practice Publications: 2009 Chen, J., MORE >>

A selection of news and links captured during June 2009, organised under the usual headings of systems and what makes them: people, information and technology Systems A good definition of a network.success can easily compound into runaway growth (and vice versa.) MORE >>

Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. December 2010 November 30-December 3, 2010 International Workshop on Cloud Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (CPSRT), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. link] December 4-8, 2010 National Staff Development Council , Atlanta, Georgia, USA. MORE >>

Sue Hanley , for Network World " I read Michael Sampson’s new book User Adoption Strategies with great interest and flagged a lot of gems I found, some of which I will share here. Answer: no one uses them. Its time to do something about this complaint. Its been happening for too long, with too many generations of collaboration tools. rollout. MORE >>

1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion. namely that successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence. apply to any network application, whether web- or mobile phone-based (and the lines between the two are increasingly blurred). Summit Web 2.0 MORE >>