are blocking the use of social networking tools for their employees, so that they wouldn’t waste time at work, or goof around unnecessarily. You told us we can’t use these social networking tools at work, so we are not going to start now ” is what most folks would probably say. Essentially, personal, private use. . MORE >>

At work one of our teams is using a community space in order to use a forum to crowdsource ideas for continuous improvement. Anyway, once we get the forums sorted out, we will workshop with the contributors to see if they would like to keep going and turn the initial one off activity into a more concrete community. MORE >>

NeoGAF is a popular and influential game discussion forum, notable for being one of the few online communities where industry insiders dare to out themselves. Programmers, sounds designers, artists, and writers came forward volunteering to work on a community project to design, build, and release a PC game. might be like. MORE >>

My good friend, Harold Jarche , talked about this very same thing as well not long ago on a virtual IBM event for the community of social software evangelists that I co-lead with one other colleague and which I blogged about over at ? IBM Innovation Knowledge Management Knowledge Tools Learning Personal KM Productivity Tools Social Computin MORE >>

Online customer communities are everywhere -- you just have to look for them -- sometimes in unlikely places. By way of definition, when we say "online customer communities," we mean an interactive, often gated, website that a company sets up for customers to collaborate on topics of mutual interest. SaaS4Channel.nl MORE >>