Over at TheAppGap I recently wrote about Transforming Organizations: Participative Media & the Power to Convene  and made the case that in many organizations leadership resists adoption of low cost collaboration tools because it challenges traditional notions of control. We vote with our feet. What do you think? Jenny Ambrozek.     . MORE >>

June 7- 11 I had the good fortune of taking a deeper dive into social network analysis (SNA) at the University of Kentucky's Links Center Summer Workshop.  . Patti Anklam also contributed a before and after network analysis of participants in the Facebook Groups in Business Investigation 2008.)  Here's what I learned. Will such tools be adopted? MORE >>

How is web 2.0 values driven? asked one of the participants in a workshop given by Jenny Ambrozek and myself, sponsored by ODNNY. The question of values strikes at the core of our human and organizational behavior, whether it is face-to-face or online, through any of a host of social media platforms. Our values underpin our behavior. values driven? MORE >>

Operating on the assumption that consumer behavior is driving corporate innovation, transformation and design faster than any internal strategies it appears past time to wake-up and pay attention to the impact of social media. However, identities are essentially disconnected silos within individual sites. Victoria G. Axelrod. MORE >>

The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (ISE) at Fairleigh Dickinson University strives to "bring people together to learn how to live and manage sustainably". Hazel Henderson: "Beyond GDP". October 16 ISE provided the opportunity to hear from Hazel Henderson. See her web site [link] and Wikipedia entry. The slides and audio are available here. MORE >>