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 ...

A group of social and political commentators are hashing over Clay Shirky's excellent and important new work, Here Comes Everybody, over at the TPM Cafe section of Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo, one of the Internet's best sites for political news. Worth a look for an interesting perspective on social computing and collaboration from some of ...

Mike Gotta moderated our next generation workforce panel this morning, where I participated alongside Scott Smith from IBM Global Services and Patti Anklam, a writer and consultant on social networking. Here are a couple of key take-aways from the discussion: What is the ''next generation workforce''? The next generation workforce will be ...

So I've been at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston all week, but ironically, have not been able to blog because of technical problems with the wireless connection at the hotel. Apparently it did not occur to someone at Sprint that a conference of over 1000 people here to discuss social computing might have a desire to all connect to ...

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 ...

Clay Shirky writes: ''Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. The invention of a tool doesn't create change; it has to be around long enough that most of society is using it... for our young people today, our new social tools have passed normal and heading to ubiquitous, and invisible is ...

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 ...

Solutions Research Group has a great report out today on ''Disconnect Anxiety,'' a psychological biproduct of our always on, always connected digital culture. According to their findings, being disconnected gives rise to four main types of worry - safety (can't get help if you need it), work (might miss something important), social (might miss the ...