But data from TNS shows that use of social media and social networking in the country is widespread, making it the fourth largest market in Europe for social networking behind the UK, Germany and France. These statistics are impressive and firmly place Russia as the fourth biggest market in Europe for social networking. For them it’s less that the internet has changed We’ve posted in the past about the use of social media in Russia, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev launched a video blog . The January Web Index for TNS shows that two leading social networks

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. Global Networks & Knowledge Sharing Then it was Azerbaijan, Georgia (the country), Armenia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Columbia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and a multitude of international NGOs based in Europe and North America who gave me the opportunity to apply online interaction and collaboration practices in the field of international I 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

This starts to show the real power of social media - it’s not just about letting people do old things in new ways, but about facilitating completely new ways of connecting, sharing, and indeed of working. Taking only the adoption of social networks as part of “everyday life at work in Europe”, the figures reveal something surprising - Great Britain lags behind the other countries in the study: A report out this week from AT&T explores the adoption of social networking  in the workplace and the  rise of Enterprise 2.0. Based on 2,500 interviews in five

The Black Out Europe campaign reminds us that European internet freedoms are still at risk, and to use the upcoming European elections for supporting candidates in favour of such freedoms. Digital Europe has designed a questionnaire you can send to your representatives so that you can identify their positions on internet freedoms. The excuse is to promote competition, offering IN THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS ON JUNE 6TH DO NOT VOTE TO THE PARTIES WHICH WANT TO GIFT OUR RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE INTERNET TO PRIVATE INTERESTS . Here is a graphic that analyses the votes of EU parliamentarians

You can read the full article in the latest edition of Pharmaceutical Executive Digest Europe , but the interview got me thinking about the ways in which people can use Linkedin as a networking tool, and also how you can gain some (but not all) of the benefits that you would get from a community of practice. Profiles and personal connections take second place to a shared idea, interest, focus or topic of discussion. Image via CrunchBase I

We Must Protect Net Neutrality in Europe! Organizations from all around Europe share their concern of seeing Net Neutrality being sacrificed during the conciliation procedure of the directives of the EU Telecoms Package. All around Europe, these kind of discriminatory practices, detrimental to both consumers and innovation, are emerging. They sent this letter to the Members of the European Parliament, urging them to take decisive action in order to guarantee a free, open and innovative Internet, and to safeguard the fundamental freedoms of European citizens. The P2P Foundation

The whole exchange is 81 minutes but you can watch separate parts: either the presentation on the Rede Nos project in Brasil (Monica Amorim; 18 minutes) or the presentation by Elena Nikulina on the PEM-PAL program for learning on public expenditure in Eastern Europe that covers 13 countries (10 minutes). The community of practice PEM-PAL on public expenditure management regrouping practitioners from 13 countries in Eastern Europe started only this year, and will rather be a constellation of communities of practitioners like treasurers, auditors, etc. (in the picture you see Monica Amorim from Brasil) Erik Johnson from the World Bank sent me the link to the World Bank video of a brown-bag lunch about client communities of practice on October 23 at the World Bank.

These one were spotted on the year-end overviews at Springwise: - Room Sharing with Roomorama Note that this example concerns paid room sharing: “” 8220;” Roomorama aims to provide a quick and easy way to arrange short-term stays by matching hosts who have space to share with travellers planning a visit to their city. Please note that I follow such trends via a specific tag at Delicious . Potential hosts begin by listing the details of the room they have, including when it’s available and the per-night price they’d like to be

At this time when unemployment due to layoffs is growing, we should try out some new ways to share the work and spread the wealth. Shared Work One of them, the Shared Work program, helps employers survive recessions and seasonal business adjustments by providing an alternative to laying off full-time workers. Proposals for anti-meltdown policies , partially inspired by the New Deal in the 1930’s Jan Hively: “To create a commons-based society, people need more than exposure to new ideas.

Wasting time at work, discussing the News, sharing communication on a birth, engagement, marriage, death? The counter is wildly popular in Germany, England (The Guardian embedded it) and other parts of Europe, and the US is picking up on it now, as we speak (Wired embedded it).  Social Media statistics: Ever wondered how many people are blogging, uploading videos, tweeting right at this very minute ? Here’s a counter that displays growth of Twitter, money spent on Facebook gifts, number of SMS’s sent worldwide second by second.