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One big thing I've been thinking about lately is "leveraging social networks to accomplish important stuff" and no one can deny that personal relationships can influence collaboration. How well you know someone, how much you identify with them, how much you trust them, their level of reliability or transparency - all of these are values derived from social networking that then, when leveraged, can influence collaboration. Collaboration is not an end in itself, of course - it is a means to accomplish some end (finishing a draft report, etc.). So, social networking is a means to collaboration, which is a means to achieving some work or personal goal.

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Companies with revenues exceeding $1 billion—along with business-to-business organizations—are more likely to report benefits than are smaller companies or consumer companies. Among functions, respondents in information technology, business development, and sales and marketing are more likely to report seeing benefits at various levels than are those in finance or purchasing. IT executives, in general, are more focused on using Web tools to achieve internal improvements, while business development and sales functions often rely on the technologies to deliver better insights into markets or to interact with consumers.

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Collaboration King has used, implemented or tried hundreds of programs. Each category below shows only 3-5 programs the we believe to be the best in their field. Please consult the more comprehensive lists at the bottom by 3rd parties if you have more specific needs.

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This is an updated matrix of social tool components and how they map to various use types in social computing. I use this in my workshops on understanding social software for use inside organizations. Separating use into collective, community (group), and collaboration has a large impact as the use and type of components needed to accomplish those different use tasks. Solid stars mean the tool does a good job at that use. Hollow stars mea the tool may have some value, but is not strongest. Empty cells indicate that tool is not often thought of as adding value to that use type. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch

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Our projects have spanned many industries and objectives. A review of some of these case studies will provide you with a flavor of the diversity of our organizational network projects. Each case study includes a situation overview, key findings and recommendations, and learnings or a path-forward.

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The power of the social world is like gravity or light. It seems mysterious. It is easy to wax mystical about it. But I think that what is emerging via observation - just like all good science - is the math. What is ironic is that this math is well known and has been part of human knowledge for millenia. It just has never been applied to the social world before.

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The state of enterprise 2.0 reveals spotty progress and a separation between key technologies. For instance, wikis are in, podcasts are out and blogs are somewhere in between within the corporation.

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Rank of popularity for various social networks for various countries.

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Includes a very good description of Google's Friend Connect.

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