A new study, Social Media and College Admissions: Higher-Ed Beats Business in Adoption of New Tools for Third Year , by Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson shows that US colleges are studying the “rules of engagement&# in the online world in order to maximize their effectiveness at recruiting prospective students.  Good for them. MORE >>

Anyone using Facebook probably has a hard time keeping track of all the changes and updates to the service. Even those of us who use Facebook for business are hard-pressed to keep up. In the last few weeks, I’ve learned more about Facebook through trial and error (and my Twitterstream) than I ever have from Facebook’s communications. MORE >>

A recording of a Skype conversation with Bill Kutik, the eminent independent Human Resources technology analyst who co-chairs the upcoming September 29 annual HR Technology Conference in Chicago. As chair of the HR track for the upcoming November Enterprise 2.0 Skype did MORE >>

Last week I wrote about Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point. The news today is that Betaworks, which developed or supported the highly successful Tweetdeck, bit.ly, Tumblr and far more, is working on News.Me , a ‘personalized news service’, in collaboration with New York Times. never bought that argument. MORE >>

Tweet A while back I wrote on the age of dissonance and how our way of structuring work, particularly the job, was inadequate for the networked, creative economy: New design principles, from instructional development to job descriptions, are needed for our inter-networked society. The economic crisis may actually help bring about some needed change. MORE >>