We learn by doing.
It is a blinding glimpse of the obvious but somehow this point gets missed over and over as big companies approach social media by rolling out training.   Don’t get me wrong – …

My new article for Forbes covering the real-time web is out this morning here:
There is a lot of fuss and confusion over the term “real-time Web” epitomized in this recent comment on O’Reilly Radar:
“I’ve been …

The mobile device is headed to dethrone the laptop as the de facto standard gear for knowledge work.

As we find ourselves tied to mobile devices, coordination will increasingly become the organizing principle that defines how we get work done; we will become a network of spontaneous gathering, loosely coordinated agents in constant contact.

I am reading Tournament of Shadows – a history of Russia, England, India and the “Great Game” for empire in Central Asia.   I just came across this quote and fancied it too good not to …

How does an organization manage the increasing communications asymmetry between inside and outside?

On the inside, information flow is glacial and constricted to a few individuals at the top of the reporting pyramid. On the outside, information flow is kinetic and ubiquitous.

The term, “Social Business” has been steadily gaining currency among influential thinkers such as Stowe Boyd, Jeff Dachis, Peter Kim, and Jeremiah Owyang.   At its broadest definition Social Business describes the systemic challenges and new …

This is a cross-post from Radar
I am flying to London this coming week on business. I have no idea if I will be able to use my laptop, emerge from my seat during the …

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What do you do with an employee who posts less than professional opinions or images on Facebook about their employer, one of their clients or colleagues? What if it’s done on their private time?
Well the …

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OK, so this isn’t really that serious… but suicidemachine.org is offering in 20101what was  unthinkable in 2009…   Totally erase your social network presence at a  single stroke… Social suicide.
Opting out of the social race won’t …