pundits’ suggestions that value will be realized more quickly and more steadily when social computing is introduced to an organzation as "the way things get done around here" when it comes to dealing with and responding the need to beuild useful knowedge from information flows … rather than in small controlled pilots. Open it up. MORE >>

An interesting post over on Presentation Zen about Dan Pink's TED Talk on motivation, that Garr summarizes nicely: We don't need sweeter carrots and sharper sticks, Dan says. We need a whole new approach, an approach that puts more stock in intrinsic motivation. Mastery: The desire to get better at something that matters. MORE >>

In 2007, Giga OM wrote a post about marketing in Second Life " Marketing in Second Life doesn't work. here is why! ". What's interesting is how, 2 years on, those same arguments apply to Web 2.0 P2P teleporting renders billboards and most other location-based advertising useless Advertisers want to hang on to your eyeballs. Everywhere in Web 2.0, MORE >>

Yesterday I wrote about Learning to be Productive at the Water Cooler based on a post by Arie Goldshlager and a study by MIT’s Alex Pentland and Benjamin Waber. The quick answer, water cooler discussions increase productivity and Twitter is the new virtual water cooler. Eric, a team member, “was always more informed than anyone else. Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

McKinsey has just published the results of a survey of nearly 1,700 executives from around the world which paints a highly positive picture of the business returns being seen from Web 2.0 deployments. This is probably the most significant set of survey findings I have seen yet that document actual benefits being seen from Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>