Ever since Andrew McAfee coined the term “Enterprise 2.0” in 2006, organizations have been investigating ways that enterprise social software (ESS) can address gaps in how employees work together. But we’ve also come to realize that there is a greater context behind industry interest in ESS. We need to get this right as an industry. MORE >>

One of our colleagues came to me with a particular challenge, and I'm not sure I have a good answer, nor do I know specifically how to go about finding an answer. I'm hoping that readers can weigh in on both aspects: (1) specific thoughts or suggestions on LMS products that might fit and (2) how do you get answers to questions like this? Solutions? MORE >>

Yahoo’s release of Twitter usage statistics, reported earlier this week by Mathew Ingram , presents some interesting pointers for organizations striving to build strong social media presences. Culture of Public Collaboration. How many of your staff members actively follow — that is, engage with — your company’s Twitter feed? MORE >>

How often do you end up wrestling with your team members and other colleagues when the project isn't going as well as you'd like? What has conspired to take the project off the rails? Whose fault is it? Is it the project manager? The resource manager? The team members? Yours? have written about the impact of variability on projects before. MORE >>

There was an interesting article in the New Scientist, Happier people tweet together. Psychologist Johan Bollen of the University of Indiana and colleagues tracked 102,000 Twitter users over six months, analyzing the 140-character-or-less text from 129 million of their tweets with standard techniques from psychology. In other words.     MORE >>