Recently I spoke with Chris Lynch about their integration with IBM Connections. was especially interested in this as I covered Connections extensively (see first of recent three part series - IBM Connections Conversations 1: Review of 3.0 ). It is too easy to stay within familiar email, for example.   MORE >>

Rawn Shah , commenting on one of my presentations , said that knowledge is evolving faster than can be codified in formal systems and is depreciating in value over time. Two billion people connected to each other is absolutely amazing, yet many of us cannot see the forest for the trees. This pretty well sums up the situation. MORE >>

Your core followers — those you who actually listen to you and interact with you — are the real value of Twitter, and that’s why you should never, ever automate your Twitter account to increase follower count. That reduces the value of your Twitter stream as a listening tool and information source. Handle with care. MORE >>

When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of 'living networks' was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. In contrast, bee hives and ant colonies are prime examples of superorganisms. MORE >>

Perhaps the most important thing that companies and agencies delving into mobile marketing need to understand is that there must be real value for customers and consumers in order for the campaign to have any success. Only at that point is there any chance of marketing value being created. Here are examples of the 8 sources of value. MORE >>