One of the more interesting articles I came across while on winter break was the dissertation abstract and presentation below on the role social network sites play as people adapt to different life transitions. A Transition From Destination Site To Platform Services ". Identity Social Networking & Collaborationcommunity. MORE >>

June 2009 event when I ran a workshop on enterprise social networking, but the trend is true in general (from destination site, to networked services) as platforms create ecosystems (re: recent news on Salesforce, LinkedIn, etc). My voice over on this slide was that we would not see comprehensive social networking platforms until 2012. MORE >>

Social networking sites have each a unique protocol and don’t usually provide members with practical how-to advice to help use their sites effectively. Here are ten tips for maximizing your LinkedIn social networking success: Your LinkedIn profile is your resume. They let us figure out the how-tos on our own. MORE >>

Every day new social media sites crop up. We’d love to try them all, yet we can only hope to master and stay on top of a very small fraction of the myriad sites that are already available to us. The 80/20 Rule applied to social media sites would state that 80% of all results can be achieved with 20% of all sites. MORE >>

There are seven stages to social media engagement from shallow monitoring to deep peer to peer economies. How deep is the rabbit hole of social media? It’s probably worth noting that every baby steps stage in social media engagement is valid – from little acorns big ol’ oak trees grow. One day. silently please. MORE >>