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These are my personal perspectives only. Thursday, May 17, 2007 Banning Facebook in the Workplace One of the biggest aspects of web 2.0 is the growing nature of social network sites such as Facebook (which is growing at a phenomenal 5% a week). Facebook provides a communication vehicle that is rich with multimedia content, and more importantly provides an informal communications skip to main | skip to sidebar Rexs Thought Spot Personal Reflections on Innovation & Collaboration in a 2.0 World All comments posted

Facebook : Perhaps the most interesting announcement this week is talk of developments at Facebook to include location features. The speculation is that location will accompany status updates and changes to Facebook’s Terms and Conditions last November appear to have been made in preparation for this ( “When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post.” It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about ‘the big thing for next year’.

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

These are my personal perspectives only. Monday, December 3, 2007 5 Facebook Lessons to Improve Employee Engagement in Your Company So perhaps your company isnt sold on this whole Myspace/Facebook thing. IS it Facebook? But the underlying concepts that Facebook and similar environments have created can teach us several skip to main | skip to sidebar Rexs Thought Spot Personal Reflections on Innovation & Collaboration in a 2.0 World All comments posted on this blog do not reflect the opinions of any organization that

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:

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Despite the neo-con conspiracy theory accusations , despite even the threats of Facebook The Movie (the specter of which I'm absolutely delighted about btw), Facebook continues to go from strength to strength in terms of empire building. According to recently released user & engagement stats , Facebook is currently the equivalent of the worlds fourth largest country, with around 240 million individual accounts. It's reporting a growth surge recently too - adding an incredible 700,000 to 750,000 new users per day. The latest scandal to hit Facebook - and let's face

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