Shortly after Forrester announced that Deloitte Australia’s Yammer network had won its 2011 Forrester Groundswell award in the category of Collaboration Systems. Undoubtedly a major factor in Deloitte Australia’s success in internal social networks is the unreserved support of its CEO. Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

They created it by drawing on and adapting existing social media policies. Once the policy was in place and staff were being educated on the issues, the executives started feeling far more comfortable providing more access to social media, including Facebook. Enterprise 2.0 Social media Social networks Web 2.0 MORE >>

In my book Living Networks , released in 2002, I wrote: The brilliant visionary Marshall McLuhan accurately described the media as an extension of our senses. However the new world of media is at the heart of how the networks are coming to life. From Chapter 1 of Living Networks ]. Editorial policies and reputation for accuracy. MORE >>

The issue of employee comments made on social networking sites outside the workplace and work hours is uncharted legal territory, but will easily spill over into corporate interactions as well. The employee was suspended and later terminated for her Facebook postings and because such postings violated the company’s Internet policies.&#. MORE >>

Here are some of the work related findings: Two out of three users will interrupt a group meeting to communicate with someone else digitally, either by answering email (48%), answering a mobile phone (35%), chatting via IM (28%), updating their status on a social network (12%) or tweeting (9%). Social Media Web 2.0 Work 2.0 MORE >>