Initiatives The 2008 Tribalization of Business study Online communities are proliferating as companies look to harness the collective wisdom and ideas of their employees, customers, and other constituents in order to innovate faster, reduce costs, and create the relationships that will grow their businesses and bolster their bottom lines. Check out Beeline’s services . Register to get access to the report Interested in seeing the findings of the "2008 Tribalization of Business" study?

Its the Edublog Awards 2008 ! GMT/UTC: 11pm, Saturday 20 Dec 2008 AEST: 10am, Sunday 21 Dec 2008 SLT: 3pm, Saturday 20 Dec 2008 Get your local time details here! Where? The fabulous team at EdTechTalk will be providing a web-based audio stream of the event. 2008 Edublog Awards Nominees Dust off your party outfits and get ready to join us on Saturday night for the spectacular 5th awards show, celebrating the vibrancy of blog and social media practice to support learning .  Voting is still open across this years 16 categories , and every vote still counts since most of the category nominees are within spitting distance of each other.

In 2008, I published a vendor product catalog that has details of over 50 of the vendors, beyond these listed descriptions. Update: Feb 2008, now acquired by ONEsite) SiteLife from Pluck Pluck already has some other products this could be interesting. Affinity Circles This seems to have quite a few educational clients, interesting. Kick Apps White label hosted version. Web Crossing Social networking and collaboration suite. Crowd Factory “Platform that allows you to create a social network site similar to MySpace” CollectiveX Doesn’t

This is a brief report and things we learned about the experimental ‘knowledge networking’ and ‘social reporting’ facilitation work done at Online Information 2008 , co-authored between David Wilcox and Emma Wallace and me. Media Sandbox report, November 2008) We all hope that this provides you with some clues, ideas, tips and so forth. We worked with Lorna Candy and the team at Incisive Media to help them provide more networking opportunities for delegates and speakers before and during the conference, online and offline, using different tools. Background:

My position for some time has been that the next release will be a tipping point for Microsoft's social computing efforts. Either Microsoft "gets it right" and delivers a forward-looking release with significant improvements that transforms SharePoint into a market-leading social computing platform, or it delivers a release that has only incremental improvements to existing functionality that reflect a backward-looking competitive landscape (circa 2008 as things get locked-down). Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0

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The balance was finally tipped by Ben Verwaayan, BT’s chief executive, who expressed publicly his support for the more liberal approach. Best wishes, Richard 8 Andy Waite January 7, 2008 at 11:15 am Hi Richard, That’s an excellent post. Andy 9 richarddennison January 7, 2008 at 11:31 am Andy - sure … I’ll drop you a line separately. Inside out A view from deep inside the intestines of a global company Blog About My articles New BT social media case study (12/09/08) BT Web 2.0

Tags: Technology Stewardship Community Tips and Techniques Identit (cross-posted on jlearn2.0 ). A few posts ago , we wrote about personal and organizational “friending” policies on social networks like Facebook. Many thanks to Shayna Kreisler, BBYO’s Director, Education and Teen Initiatives, and her colleagues for their willingness to share their organization’s social networking policy.

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About Contact Web Strategy Vault Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing Jeremiah Owyang discusses how web tools and social media enable companies to connect with customers Understanding the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks January 28th, 2008 | Category: Social Media It’s easy to get the tools mixed up, but it’s important to know the differences. Blog January 28th, 2008 8:29 am […] Tool Analogies for the