Worlshop attendees came from Canada, England, France, Italy and Sweden as well as across the U.S. Hence we don't have a good measure of adoption. Will such tools be adopted? Please share your experience and observations. Here's what I learned. SNA Embedded in Enterprise Platforms I'm headed to Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

In the Twitter session one woman talked about a very unusual Twitter adoption challenge. Outflow: sharing knowledge, disseminating information, publicizing community events, helping the world see (and perhaps validate) good community work that may not be perceived as so important because it is so “everyday&# for the community itself. MORE >>

Michel Pebereau, one of the “godfathers” of the French banking system, described in 2005, in one of those official ad hoc reports, France as a country stifled by debt and which is sacrificing its future generations by engaging in reckless social spending. The full pdf version is here. from 1990 to 2007 – seemed to confirm this view. MORE >>

As a citizen of the web, if you let me manage my relationship with you, and make it easy for me to do so, giving me the choice of how and where I store my profile and preference data, I’ll be more likely, more willing, and more able to share it with you, in an ongoing fashion, increasingly as you use it to improve my experiences with you. MORE >>

How about if we finish off another wonderfully busy and inspiring week in the Social Computing space with another thought provoking blog post on the topic of Privacy and Security, perhaps two of the main key themes that keep popping up as potential showstoppers for social software adoption efforts within the corporate world? Not bad, right? MORE >>