There’s also a video chat feature called ‘Hangout’, which by all accounts gives Skype Video a run for its money; and ‘Huddle’, a mobile group chat service that sounds super useful in enterprise situations. Google+ “sharing” service launches: Facebook rival? But by all accounts, Google+ is PD cool. Hold on! you cry), that can’t be right! MORE >>

Indeed, mark your calendars as well for the Social Business Forum 2011. June is just around the corner and, once again, that can only mean that one of my favourite times of the year for conference events is about to kick off as well. Yes, that’s right! Once more, and like every year, the Enterprise 2.0 But first things first. MORE >>

Let's talk more - by phone, over coffee, face-to-face, via Skype video, using Cisco TelePresence, etc. Herb reflects on ten years of being a supply chain consultant , and notes a few differences: - The office is much quieter today than 10 years ago. There are fewer people doing more work - so the opportunity to chat / converse is less. MORE >>

Did Microsoft overpay for Skype? There can barely have been a dry undergarment in the house over at Microsoft HQ this week, following its seemingly unfathomable decision to buy Skype, which lost $7m on its $860 million revenue last year, for a stomach-lurching $8.5bn. Facebook in 'dirty' PR fiasco. Poor, very poor. Dressed by Disney. MORE >>

For this purpose you use Skype, email and google.docs. This is a blogpost written for a half-day workshop for facilitators with Sibrenne Wagenaar. There are many different ways in which you can do so. 1) Wrap-around model: socials aspects are added as extra element to organise trainer- en peer support. How central will social media be? MORE >>