While enterprise social networking has been covered extensively in the media and by IT analyst firms, one of the least discussed aspects of the topic has been the issue of design and the potential impact of design on employee adoption of such tools and applications.  e-mail, community site, social collaboration platform, etc.). MORE >>

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns. Social media is a great place to fail. MORE >>

Three-quarters of Japanese social network users access the sites only from their mobile phones. This observation comes from a survey conducted last year with almost 4,000 social network users in Japan by Mobile Marketing Data Labo. of respondents only accessed social networking sites from their mobile phone (and not from their PC). MORE >>

Only 10% of European consumers trust posts by brands on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter; in North America this number increases to 15%. It shows that consumer trust of brands in social media is still much lower than the trust they have for their friends and the posts they make. Hello!! Photo credit: I_Believe_). MORE >>

Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media. At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use. started making a list of all the social media I use.  Social Network  Sites. So here it is. Learning. Email. Browsers. MORE >>