IT Industry analyst which basically means I spend a lot of my time looking at the technology market analyzing strategies of vendors and studying consumer/societal trends that influence technology adoption. Right now, my primary focus is on social social networking, microblogging (Twitter), and the intersect between social networks and identity.
One area that I am researching is how social media and social networks help with corporate social responsibility, advocacy and community outreach efforts. Another area I am looking into is how social media and social networks help organizations address shifting workforce demographics as younger workers enter the workplace with different expectations and technology experiences than previous generations.
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3 days ago
I've used this chart publicly since the E2.0 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, …
3 days ago
Hopefully, this would be implemented in a manner that provides Facebook members to set controls that determine the level of sharing of relationship connections, including sharing of one's social graph externally not just to FB apps. It's not just Facebook apps I would …
Social computing, social networks, informal learning, media literacy, collaboration, and community-building