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My previous post was a digest of what I think are the best parts of Chuck’s blog where he is documenting his experience, called A Journey in Social Media . Even though his social media journey has started out with Communities, this report covers a whole social media strategy, the strategy and approach can be used as a basis to cover any social media implementation. This is a really great case A while back I posted on Chuck Hollis’s journey in introducing Communities of Practice to EMC. Well now he has summarized all those blog posts into a white paper

« Will All Media Companies Launch Ad Networks? Friendster Beats Facebook to the Punch » Buddy Press Turns Wordpress Into Social Network Posted by Nick ONeill on November 10th, 2007 9:22 PM I have been working on a way to integrate social networking into the Social Times website. have looked at a lot of options one of which was enabling users to create wordpress accounts and leverage the blogging platform to enable users to interact with each other. I Soon after my exploration began

in the enterprise and how social media is changing collaboration behind the firewall. Within the Enterprise” the panel discussed how grass roots social media efforts take on a life of their own as they move from being “under the desk server” initiatives to enterprise wide programs. Steve Bendt of Best Buy talked about Blue Nation, a social networking site that connects employees at the retail outlets to the corporate offices and to each other. About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter UPCOMING WEBINAR: No Time, No Budget, Fewer People?

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to Communities of Practice by Bill Ives January 28, 2008 at 5:48 pm · Filed under Communities , Enterprise 2.0 , Reviews Communities of practice have been around a while, and so has the software platforms to support them. They were one of the first inroads of social software within the enterprise. About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter UPCOMING WEBINAR: No Time, No Budget, Fewer People? 5

Helpful for social platforms based on Drupal - would like to see relevant features of Friend Connect supported within Apache SocialSite (still hopefull that this effort gains more attention and traction). Now that Friend Connect is integrated with these popular open source CMS platforms, site owners can make registration easier for users and offer them a set of social features -- all without writing a single line of code. I'm happy to announce that Google Friend Connect features are now also available for Drupal and Joomla . Even site owners without programming