In general I tend to believe that if you can't trust your employees to behave appropriately on a social network, then you probably shouldn't be trusting them to go to meetings, answer phones or have customer contact in any way. hazard of social networking is people will read what you write. Tags: participatory culture Not good. MORE >>

particularly like that Harold connects this to the idea of personal knowledge management. continuous+improvement culture knowledge+management haroldjarche learning network networking organizationallearninghooked into a couple things. No blame or finger pointing. How do we know we are moving in the right direction? MORE >>

I’ve echoed words by Dave Snowden and Jon Husband that rather than trying to create a knowledge sharing culture, we are instead creating conditions and environment for that to happen naturally via a participation model that facilitates connections and shared context. Networks. Density - the number of ties in a network. MORE >>

While enterprise social networking has been covered extensively in the media and by IT analyst firms, one of the least discussed aspects of the topic has been the issue of design and the potential impact of design on employee adoption of such tools and applications.  Enterprise social networking includes a range of architectural issues (e.g., MORE >>

One of the more interesting articles I came across while on winter break was the dissertation abstract and presentation below on the role social network sites play as people adapt to different life transitions. Title : Networked Information Behavior in Life Transition. Identity Social Networking & Collaborationcommunity. MORE >>