Picking up on the theme from last week’s post, Tech Reporters Losing Control of the Story to Social Media, here was an interesting tweet that could a lot of play at SXSW.   @robinsloan The way to cover big news in 2011 is not "here's what happened." " It's "here's how to follow the story"  [link]. MORE >>

Forrester recently released a report on What’s Holding Back Your Intranet? by Tim Waters with Matthew Brown and Sara Burnes. They were kind to share a copy with me. They found that 93% of employee respondents said they use an intranet or company portal (Forrester uses the terms interchangeably) at least weekly, and more than half reported daily use. MORE >>

Forrester has released a new report,  Accelerating Your Social Maturity: How To Move From Social Experimentation To Business Transformation. You can also find it as a new chapter in the updated paperback version of the  Groundswell book. They wee able to place all the companies they interviewed into 5 categories on a progression. MORE >>

Last week I attended an IBM media event where they conveyed a number of their recent efforts in social software. was pleased to get this invitation as I have been covering IBM efforts in the space for a while (see for example my 2005 post - IBM’s Social Software Initiatives: Blogs, Wikis, Tagging, and More – Part One ). lot of the enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

  The old adage, knowledge is power, has been transformed in the social age to “sharing knowledge is power” according to Maria Azua, author of The Social Factor.   While I agree that the new saying has taken on increased importance within Web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0, the old saying still holds. picked up some new bits.   MORE >>