During the conference events I actually managed to have a good, solid WiFi connection, which I am sure most of you folks may have noticed, as it gave me an opportunity to live tweet all of the different sessions that I attended, although I didn’t have much more time to get some work done along the way. That’s all what matters for Web Knowledge Workers nowadays don’t you think? I’m sure that during the course of these first three months of the year you may have read already a few dozens of articles, blog posts, news items, etc. etc.

Well, a few weeks back Lee Bryant , CEO and co-founder of Headshift , part of Dachis Group , invited me to participate on the upcoming SOMESSO / Headshift Social Business Summit that will be taking place next week, on March 18th , where I will be moderating one of the panels: the one on Internal Use of Social Software, where I will try to share some further insights on what IBM has been doing for nearly three years now with one of its most successful social software adoption programs: BlueIQ . It surely promises to be a rather interesting one, since I’ll be moderating

yes, I do realise that trust is one of those recurring terms / themes that perhaps may have been abused quite a bit, specially in the workplace context (Just as much as terms like Collaboration, Communities, or, even, Knowledge Management), but then again, when you see the word trust you know pretty well what you are referring to and could very well explain it in a sentence or two. It is something management adds when they don’t trust their employees to perform as expected " [Emphasis mine] Every so often there are those times when you bump into a couple of articles published by people, who you know and respect dearly for the tremendous amount of great work they have done in the space of Social Computing, that give you such an adrenaline rush, while reading through them, that you just can’t stop thinking about anything else for a little while.