Advocating Enterprise 2.0 / social collaboration is the recognition that we’ve found something effective at filling in the knowledge gaps left by traditional Vertical Collaboration methods that prevent organizations from maximizing the capacity of their people. Collaboration is not the same as cooperation. George Bernard Shaw. MORE >>

Note: Productivity not that strong of a hook - nebulous when it comes to information/knowledge workers since there has been no credible method of assessing productivity improvements due to technology - keeps coming back to "time saved" which is a very soft argument since you cannot assess how the time was re-applied outside structured task workers. MORE >>

Training Method Trends suggests that social learning tools are beginning to take off. Many organizations are using SharePoint to implement these kinds of solutions. eLearning Technology. Someone was just asking me about the big trends in learning and the implications of those trends on corporate learning and development. MORE >>

In the past, it was a good idea to avoid the word 'workflow' in discussions about enterprise social computing because people immediately jumped to thinking about highly structured and automated workflows that you might find in a system of record or a collaboration platform, like SharePoint or Dominio/Lotus Note. MORE >>

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet? What next? MORE >>