A few weeks ago, my pal Venkatesh Rao, who usually blogs at Ribbon Farm, wrote a terrific piece over at Enterprise 2.0 Blog discussing the growing disconnect between the traditional Knowledge Management (KM) approach and the insurgent Social Media (SM) strategy for sharing information and tacit knowledge in the enterprise. Venkat observed:The ...

Sorry for the recent low levels of blog activity. In addition to the usual summer doldrums, I've been wrapping up a bunch of projects and tooling up for a busy fall season of writing and speaking. For the past couple of weeks, I have been focused on revising and extending the text of Listening to the Future: Insights from the New World of Work, a ...

Another day, another white paper wondering about all the wasted productivity of workers frittering away productive hours and compromising company information on social networks. This one is called ''Networking or Not Working - Social Networks: Brave New World or Revolution from Hell?'' and is published by MessageLabs (via Web Buyer's Guide), a ...

Mike Gotta points to this article by Dennis Howlett called ''The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social computing,'' in which Howlett observes: In the context of ’social’ anything, these are incredibly important concepts because what we’re really talking about are power relationships. In any business, power relationships are what provide the ...

Symantec, the IT security company, recently released a study of IT risks posed by the social computing workstyle of Millennials in the workforce. Obviously Symantec is not a disinterested party, but their findings are very interesting and validate many of the observations made in Generation Blend. Among the highlights of the study: 66 percent ...

There's an interesting article at CIO.com today discussing the ongoing problems that employers are having with (mostly younger) workers accessing their social networking sites at work. CIO points out that, while it is technically possible to ban access to social networks from enteprise networks, this often only encourages people to access ...

I was talking to a friend at Microsoft who says the folks in Redmond are finally starting to pay attention to Apple as a competitor on the PC desktop. They are concerned about ways to make Windows a cooler brand. Seems to me that Apple is winning in a certain market because they have optimized the individual experience with their products. When ...

Economists despise information asymmetries in markets, because theoretically, ''perfect'' information leads to optimized pricing. That is, the price of everything reflects the highest amount people are willing to pay, so the allocation of resources best reflects the aggregate values of the market. Today, with pervasive networks and the geometric ...