He wanted to know what kinds of benefits companies were deriving from social networks, and he seemed disappointed that the benefits I had seen were more evolutionary than revolutionary. The name of his post said it all: The Elusive ROI of Improving Communication. Collaboration Tools? technologies. Interesting stuff. tools. MORE >>

stark contrast, in earlier posts I have shown that social media are very different in that they are open, flexible platform technologies that do not determine ways of use to the extent that it is impo… Rather than enforcing certain ways of working these technologies open up a space for experimenting [.]. Social Networking. MORE >>

had the great idea to introduce social media to the workplace to reap some of the widely discussed benefits of Enterprise 2.0: Then you have discovered the natural barriers to adoption of networked platform technologies. The dilemma of critical mass : Networked technologies (e.g. Social Networking. Yammer. MORE >>

They have some very cool social graph and analytic features that you might want to check out. I’ll shout out to the good folks at  Allyis – it was a pleasure to meet  Ethan Yarbrough and  Eric Posner , we had a great time talking strategy, ROI, and how to get people to feel like they are part of your team. conference. MORE >>

I’m Not Actually a Geek May 11, 2008 Do Companies Need Social Media Managers? Filed under: mba — Tags: enterprise 2.0 , social media , web 2.0 — Hutch Carpenter @ 9:38 pm There are few institutions in the modern world that are not being transformed today by social media. The social media manager. MORE >>