Picking up on the theme from last week’s post, Tech Reporters Losing Control of the Story to Social Media, here was an interesting tweet that could a lot of play at SXSW.   @robinsloan The way to cover big news in 2011 is not "here's what happened." " It's "here's how to follow the story"  [link]. MORE >>

Manage phase changes in the network instead of processes Note this is an update of of an earlier blog. People working in innovation often refer to "the innovation process" as if producing an innovation was just one more business process that can be engineered for maximum efficiency. Why phase changes instead of stage gates? MORE >>

In the recent past I have been blogging over here a couple of times already on some of the amazing piece of work that BASF ( disclaimer: An IBM customer) has been doing over the course of the last year or so on becoming a Social Business and behave and act as such. And big time! Even if you are not in the IT industry. And so much more! Well done!! MORE >>

Does a learning community or community of practice need roles to function well? Should you officially assign these roles to people or is it best if people spontaneously fullfil certain roles? What about the self-organising power of communities? We thought it would be nice to share some of our thinking in this blogpost. Starting with ourselves. MORE >>

Assessing the effectiveness of networks is a notoriously under-developed field. recently took my hand at it with the co-leadership of Horacio Trujillo and iScale. We applied our thinking to the International Land Coalition , a multi-stakeholder… M&E ILC MORE >>