SharePoint is a perfect example. From a global perspective, there are some additional challenges which I brought up during a live webcast (recording of Part1) and web discussion (on Ning) that Tony Karrer hosted on SharePoint a few weeks ago. They say it is their “social media&# deployment. Horizontality. See also on SharePoint. MORE >>

have been part of Ning groups before, but find it overwhelming, very quickly because there seems to be multiple inputs for information. Even as an organizer, when I get into the Ning group, I feel overwhelmed. Yes, it's only one example and hopefully people thought about lots of others as part of it. Another set of questions. MORE >>

So, I'm trying to figure out what's going to be the right software / service to adopt, but I'm also trying to think about the differences in: Forum / Threaded Discussion / Group Examples are Google Groups and Yahoo Groups. Social Network Examples are Ning and KickApps. They could also do it as comments on a blog. MORE >>

Here are some examples : • State Earlier in the month I wrote a post on Micro-blogging in the enterprise: an idea whose time has come? Home | Blog | About Participate Services People | Subscribe Subscribe to Aggregated Feed + Links Top Keywords [?] Twitter Search Written by Dawn Foster. Twitter as a search engine. Written by Aliza Sherman. MORE >>

In a recent presentation, I showed an example problem (selecting an authoring tool), went through searching, and then asked whether you felt comfortable with the following questions: What’s really going to happen? Great example of a query. And I just learned about ning for the first time yesterday! Is my answer reasonable? MORE >>