I use the chasm model to explain my professional work of 1) seeing what is ready to cross the chasm by 2) staying connected to the innovators & being an early adopter so that 3) I can help mainstream organizations. It’s a good graphic summary of my consulting practice. It wasn’t tested, it was just an idea. MORE >>

Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, August 3, 2009: Social Networking on Intranets Summary: Community features are spreading from "Web 2.0" to "Enterprise 2.0." Thus, in actual projects, teams focus on tweaking tools and building connections among them. This is especially true for younger workers who use these tools in everyday life. MORE >>

Expo OReilly Conferences TechWeb Live Events Connect Contact Us External Links Web 2.0 From Google and Amazon to Wikipedia, eBay, and craigslist, we saw that the value was facilitated by the software, but was co-created by and for the community of connected users. Both data sets are structured, but need a gateway to connect them. MORE >>

She accesses her belief that MOMA is on 53rd Street from its storage place in her brain’s memory network. At least that’s what I keep hearing these days. Thumbing away at our text messages, we are becoming illiterate. (Or is that illiter8 ?) Blogs make us coarse, YouTube makes us shallow. Texting doesn’t lead to bad spelling, he finds. MORE >>

But what’s not clear from this description is the raw power that is caught up in and represented by network effects.  Most rigorous studies and mathematical formulations reveal that there is tremendous geometric power in network effects. Collaboration. Community. Collective Intelligence. MORE >>