I know that for a good number of years Social Computing and Knowledge Management have been walking different paths. Knowledge Management doesn’t want to do anything with Social Computing, because of the chaotic, messy and unstructured sharing of knowledge and information, and how little control organisations may have over it all, specially within communities (Which are currently the major drivers of social software adoption within the business world). Even more, I would probably be able to state that all along they haven’t gotten on well with one other.

Well, today I thought I would share with you what I exactly meant yesterday with that article and also what Rachel probably meant as well in hers: stop all the fuss you are going through to figure out the ROI of social software, and, instead, just go ahead and do it! So along those lines here you have got a brilliant blog post put together by my good friend Laurie Buczek (Enterprise Social Media Program Manager at Intel ), where she is basically detailing, quite nicely, why Intel is moving in the direction of a successful social software adoption starting very soon.

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One of the slides that has been well-received is one that I use to peel away the different terms associated with social computing. It seems to add value and remove some of the confusion that people have when it comes to "social everything". If I had to define social computing more purely, I'd lean more towards definitions used by academic institutions or by social computing research labs of major vendors (e.g., Lately, over the past couple of months, I have been doing a high number of customer briefings and traveling a lot. The workload increase has

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If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know how I have been blogging for a good number of times about one of those topics that people keep asking me about to share my two cents of the conversation: Social Software Governance and what IBM is doing about it . My short answer has always been IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines . However, the long answer has always been a story of how a good number of us had been using social software behind a firewall for a while and how, in 2005, we all got together around a wiki and started working over the course of a couple weeks on the initial IBM Blogging Policy and Guidelines document.

While most people out there think that Social Software is all about new, fancy social tools, available on a more engaging and participative Web, I thought you folks would enjoy the following quote from one of my fellow IBM colleagues, Adam Christensen , who happens to know a thing or two (And plenty more! heh) around the subject of social computing: "[...] 34;[...] here’s the main point: That culture is, in my view, the most overlooked, underestimated factor determining whether social media succeeds or fails in a company.

or Social Computing within the corporate world and beyond. Check out the YouTube video " Alan Cohen, Cisco VP Enterprise Solutions, on Enterprise Strategy " where you will see an interview with Alan Cohen himself, Vice President, Enterprise Marketing, that lasts for a bit over four minutes and which touches base on a number of different topics related to the future of Enterprise Computing and Collaboration , as he has written over at the blog Collaboration - The Workplace: A New World of Communications and Collaboration . In the recent past, you would remember I have been putting together a number of different blog posts on various video interviews that John Chambers , CEO of Cisco Systems , has been doing at several events where he has been sharing some further insights on the future of collaboration, knowledge sharing and, specially, Enterprise 2.0

ROI) of Social Software, with the latest instance over at " IBM Lotusphere 2009 Highlights - The Business Value of Collaboration Software ". The Business Value of Social Networking In it David is off to a solid start putting together some caveats that clearly outline what social software is doing at the moment within the corporate world: " Hierarchies get flattened; Silos get breached; Intermediaries Over the last couple of weeks I have been blogging a couple of times around the topic of figuring out the Return of Investment (a.k.a. To continue