Social Media in the Serendipity Economy. The following questions were asked during the Yammer Finding Value in Serendipity Webinar held, February 28, 2012 [No longer available. Yammer is now part of Microsoft.] The Storify tweet trail was mined for this report [Storify has ceased operations]. Yammer posted a blog about the paper and the webinar but it has been retired by … [Read more...] about Lessons from the Field: Answers to Yammer Customers About How to Effectively Use Enterprise Social Media in the Serendipity Economy
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More Collaboration Means Less Collaboration Software
I was reading a post this morning that asked the following question: More BI Packages Add Collaboration: Who Needs It? (http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/231903450?cid=nl_IW_daily_2011-11-21_html) Good question. Organizations need to focus on deploying a set of collaboration tools that connect with other technology, not collaboration tools within other … [Read more...] about More Collaboration Means Less Collaboration Software
Must Listen: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era Of Networked Science
A must-listen interview from Seattle's KUOW THE CONVERSATION. Reinventing Discovery delivers a highly recommended new way to see science. It hints about how the Serendipity Economy is becoming reality for scientists. Michael Nielsen is the author of "Reinventing Discovery: the Era of Networked Science." http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=25124 … [Read more...] about Must Listen: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era Of Networked Science
The Tens: Don’t Trust A Futurist
For more serious insights on strategy click here. … [Read more...] about The Tens: Don’t Trust A Futurist
Why do people lurk in online communities?
Recently I was invited to join a Yammer community focused on learning. This morning one of the members asked a question about lurking. I thought I would also share my response here. Most recently, I have had discussion about mature groups becoming clicks that don't offer much comfort to new members (except pushy, assertive or very self-confident ones). Other reasons … [Read more...] about Why do people lurk in online communities?