A lot of people are talking about the search aggregator Gada.Be , but it isnt specific to blogs. By Jack Vinson on June 26, 2006 11:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (7) 7 Comment(s) Andrew Mitchell said: Interesting that you choose now to bring up this topic, Jack. Im not sure if the discussion archives are online but you can sign up to the list at [link] You offer some very useful perspectives. June 27, 2006

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Serena has Adopted Facebook as Their Intranet by Bill Ives November 28, 2007 at 8:42 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 A few weeks ago I wrote a post, It is Time for Facebook Fridays: A Idea that Should Spread , that briefly mentioned Serena Software’s policy of allowing employees one hour of personal time during the workweek to spend on their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers, customers, family and friends. In my first post I referred to an article on their policy which I felt was somewhat mis-titled, Serena Software

Facebook has seen a surge of 513% of Senior Citizens and over 55’s joining in the USA.   Australia too has a massive increase in seniors in Facebook and social networks generally  in the last year or two.  Computer users aged 55 and over are the fastest growing group to sign up to sites such as Facebook and MySpace, often using them to keep up to date with the lives of family and friends, especially grandchildren interstate and overseas – assuming they aren’t among I want to offer some links for the statistics I quoted for an article in The Age and another one in the Sydney Morning Herald on the phenomenon:

Anne Truitt Zelenka thinking, teaching, and learning — transparently « links for 2007-11-25 links for 2007-11-29 » The Decline and Fall of Facebook In How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook , Cory Doctorow says, “ In the real world, we don’t articulate our social networks.” Besides, the semantic web is mainly about making information machine-processable, but socializing requires people.  Doctorow describes what a bad match social networking software is for our actual social conduct:

Awareness Makes a Smart Move with Its Facebook Integration by Bill Ives May 5, 2008 at 7:12 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Last week I had an interesting conversation with Eric Schurr, VP of Marketing and Direct sales at Awareness . We discussed their recently announced Facebook integration through their Awareness Facebook Application Framework. I have written about Awareness a number of times here and elsewhere (see Awareness – Enterprise 2.0 Social Media Platform ).

Day: Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals That Will Make or Break Your Company Subscribe to this blogs feed « Unified Communications & Collaboration on Urgent Patient Cases | Main | Social Media Learning Curve » November 28, 2007 Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook Innovative, perhaps foreshadowing things to come... From an enterprise perspective, organizations require the ability to publish to a Facebook audience as effectively as to a Web site audience. In response to

After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research. Introduction Since their introduction, social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, and Bebo have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. Others, such as Facebook, allow users to add modules ("Applications") that enhance their profile. JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d.

Worklight Enters the Enterprise Facebook Market by Bill Ives December 20, 2007 at 11:40 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Yes, there is an enterprise Facebook market. got an email a few days ago from Worklight , Announcing WorkBook, “a Secured Facebook for the Enterprise. software platform currently in use by Global You knew this was coming. I

Facebook as a Corporate Portal Platform? by Paula Thornton December 20, 2007 at 8:51 pm · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 , Facebook , Social Networking Respected colleague, Tony Byrne (editor of CMS Watch, which often does deep industry reports) took an interesting look at Facebook in his piece, Is Facebook in the Enterprise an Oxymoron? Since Tony is one my top respected resource for all-things-content, I know he is not one to take this subject lightly. He shares: “At I consider his attention to this topic as