'Interesting series of posts from Jane McConnell about the perspective of HR on the digital workplace (aka intranets, enterprise social software, etc). The first two posts (with another to come) ask: Is HR the missing player we are waiting for in the digital workplace? Why is HR late for social collaboration? Are you a HR professional? MORE >>

'John Seely Brown spoke eloquently on extreme learning for coping with extreme change, e.g. now. He talked about how extreme learning resembles play and challenged us to create environments where imagination could flourish. meta-learning social strategy MORE >>

'The post Behind the Banner, A Visualization of the Adtech Ecosystem appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’m a fan of Terry Kawaja and his Lumascapes – Terry was an advisory to us as we iterated this project. So take a look and tell me what you think. Oh, and while you are at the site, check out the conference lineup. MORE >>

'2005 was the year when more than 50% of US workers’ occupations involved non-routine cognitive work, that long-awaited milestone. Stowe Boyd. “Work has become distributed, discontinuous, and decentralized, hence, 3D” , says Stowe. As hyperlinks subvert hierarchy , so does work fragmentation subvert organizations. – Ross Dawson. MORE >>

'I have written about NewsGator on a number of occasions (see for example:  NewsGator Enhances its Social Sites 2010 Platform for SharePoint ). recently spoke with their new CEO, Daniel Kraft, as well as Stefanie Lightman who runs marketing and corporate strategy. Now it is moving beyond SharePoint to reach other work processes.   MORE >>