My focus is on what people DO with these tools, and very often I’ve seen people struggle with SharePoint. In SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools :: Personal InfoCloud , Tom quotes one of his informants: “We went from 5 silos in our organization to hundreds in a month after deploying SharePoint”. MORE >>

Brand Yourself is a tool which was mentioned. Open source tools e.g. PLOTs – which is a community which develops such tools to apply to environmental exploration and investigation. question raised in this discussion was whether we can adapt to the pace of technological change. Click on the image to enlarge it. MORE >>

Of course since I can no longer keep up with the rapidly growing and changing constellation of tools (volume and a 53 year old sleep deprived brain) , I turned to my network — this time using Twitter as I find it a fast, effective environment for these quick, specific questions. Bottom line… my network curates my tool choices. MORE >>

Over the past few months I’ve been working on and off with co-authors Andy Gibson , Amy Sample Ward , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney of Cass Business School , on a book about how we can use social technologies for social benefit. People make technology work. If you want to understand new technologies, start using them. MORE >>

There seems to be a reoccurring theme that “it is not about the technology” (see for example: Ted Sapuntziz’s excellent post, My lesson from Enterprise 2.0: However, I am beginning to think a large part of it is about the technology. I have been reading about the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. People are the weakest link ). MORE >>