were a product check-list, life would be so easy, unfortunately it's not. - "emergent use of social software" - gets to how social software is used, not so much what it is. There's no tag/bookmark capability and the social networking capability is mediocre. search/social distance, MySite) are credible. MORE >>

Perhaps, in a follow-up blog post I will talk a little bit about which social networking sites have now been become part of my recently created and ongoing " black list " Facebook, LinkedIn and Slideshare are just three of them, but there are a few more. In this case in this blog). Well, it has got to do with it, and quite a bit! MORE >>

This post is fourth in a series of my Social Media Principles.  The base post is 10 Social Media Principles. Social Media has shown us that the decentralization of power and information have led to very rapid advances in productivity and a very different set of assumptions about personal empowerment.  This is a blog post.  MORE >>

This is part of a post I made to a recent discussion on Communities vs Social Processes. The bigger issue appeared to be how CIOs deal with the fact that their clients merely "tolerate" the existing ERP/CRM/BI enterprise apps but are really excited about the social software stuff. tools. MORE >>

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". Social software answers the "what is" while the other terms describe "how used". MORE >>