Last week I wrote a post in which I opined a bit about Facebook search. In it I wrote: Facebook is way more than its newsfeed, and its search play is key to proving that value, and extending it.No If only I had waited a few days, I could have pointed to Fred's piece in Wired, out this week. In other words, right where Google is now. Well, no. MORE >>

Written by Celine Roque. I’m a compulsive digital fiddler. Not often, but it happens. Sometimes I get so intimidated by work that I end up procrastinating online. started my workday at 6 a.m. While these incidents are few and far between, I’d rather avoid them altogether. Step Two: Block them. It doesn’t have to be feature-rich. MORE >>

This is part two of opening workshop by Dion Hinchcliffe on Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at the Boston Enterprise 2.0 conference. Dion brought up a guest speaker David Stephenson who he said is the “world’s leader in democratizing data.” This was the tile of his discussion, the concept of democratizing data: the data-centric organization. agree here. MORE >>

Most of the tools that are central to social media are very easy to use. Each year they get easier. Each year their power increases as well. Each year it becomes more obvious that any organization - a business - a Non Profit - a government - a school - a family - will do much better if they adopt social media. So why is adoption not more evident? MORE >>

My grandfather never used computers, and he died when "wiki" was still just a word in Hawaiian. But in a single comment he taught me all about Enterprise 2.0. Grandaddy (known to the rest of the world as Phil Plesofsky) was a mild-mannered, old-school stock broker with a boutique brokerage firm in Chicago. I asked in disbelief. It's all private.  MORE >>