The recent situation with Kathy Sierra shows us that in our open, unbounded networks, we often dont know enough to clearly figure out what is going on and that can be threatening or liberating. GO » Subscribe by RSS Subscribe by Email Blog It! Blog Report Card Is your company ready to blog? Knowledge W.P. Thank you Nancy. Months passed. MORE >>

Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed.”. Rich Beatty published a nice article, Data Guides, But the Gut Decides , on how CMOs need to balance art and science in their decision making. The rise of social media is making conversations in the marketplace much more transparent. But this data alone is not enough.   MORE >>

Communities of Practice and Learning Through KEU I met Etienne Wenger and John Smith , who opened my eyes to the fact that I have been embracing community learning and communities of practice most of my life. When the door to connection is open, watch who walks through and follow them, not those who stand at the doorway and naysay! MORE >>

Orkut, for example, was launched in the United States with an English-only interface, but Portuguese-speaking Brazilians quickly became the dominant user group (Kopytoff, 2004). Skog, personal communication, September 24, 2007). Anderson, personal communication, September 28, 2006). Retrieved September 8, 2007 from [link] BBC. MORE >>

They were of the mindset that open sharing & having the organization and individuals benefit from a social platform. Most professional information architects & librarians suggest a mix of controlled vocabulary and open tagging. They say it is their “social media&# deployment. SharePoint is a silo builder, not buster. MORE >>