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With enterprise social media, the aspect that's truly overhyped is the concept of collaboration, notes Criterion's Hockenberry. Bringing diverse groups of people into a Web setting is not how innovation typically happens, he adds. "Social networks like Facebook are the biggest coffee klatch on earth," says Hockenberry. "They're nice for chatting, but we really haven't figured out the business implementation for them. Just adopting a new technology does not create innovation for you."
VIVOweb: Scientists will find research partners more easily, thanks to $12.2 million NIH grant
orget serendipity. Research scientists, meet social networking.
The National Institutes of Health have awarded the University of Florida – with Cornell University Library and Indiana University as major partners – a two-year, $12.2 million grant to bolster a national, Facebook-like, professional social network that enables scientists to find new biomedical research and partnerships. The new network will be called VIVOweb.
Where to Get a Good Idea:Steal It Outside Your Group - The New York Times
Mr. Burt has spent most of his career studying how creative, competitive people relate to the rest of the world, and how ideas move from place to place. Often the value of a good idea, he has found, is not in its origin but in its delivery. His observation will undoubtedly resonate with overlooked novelists, garage inventors and forgotten geniuses who pride themselves on their new ideas but aren't successful in getting them noticed. "Tracing the origin of an idea is an interesting academic exercise, but it's largely irrelevant," Mr. Burt said. "The trick is, can you get an idea which is mundane and well known in one place to another place where people would get value out of it."
SSRN-The Organizational Life of an Idea: Integrating Social Network, Creativity and Decision-Making Perspectives by Bob Kijkuit, Jan Van Den Ende
Existing theories on the influence of social networks on creativity focus on idea generation. Conversely, the new product development literature concentrates more on the selection of ideas and projects. In this paper we bridge this gap by developing a dynamic framework for the role of social networks from idea generation to selection. We apply findings from creativity and behavioral decision-making literature and present an in-depth understanding of the sociological processes in the front-end of the new product development process. Our framework builds on the importance of mutual understanding, sense making and consensus formation. The propositions focus on both network structure and content and highlight the need to have strong ties and prior related knowledge, to incorporate decision makers, and to move over time from a large, non-redundant and heterogeneous to a smaller and more cohesive network structure. We conclude with a discussion on empirical validation of the framework and possible extensions.
Smart Social Networking For Your Small Business - Forbes.com
Next to mobility and cloud computing, social networking was the talk of Interop this year--especially at a conference session devoted to social software tools and a portion of the Unconference, where real SMB users talked about how to make the most of it.
Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Can Enterprise Social Networking Pay Off?
These apps aim to provide value in three ways. First, they can bridge geographical and organizational information divisions by moving conversations out of email and hallways and into shared spaces such as blogs and wikis. This way, information becomes searchable, serendipitous connections are made, and ideas pollinate in ways they couldn’t before. Communities of interest spring up around subject matter rather than organizational hierarchies. For instance, a hardware engineer in Ireland who experiments with open-source software in his spare time could link to a blog on Linux started by a software developer in Australia. Even though the hardware engineer isn’t part of the software development team, he could follow discussions and share ideas, some of which the dev team may find useful.
Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Can Enterprise Social Networking Pay Off?
Connectbeam, Spigit are included in this discussion.
Data Mining Moves to Human Resources - BusinessWeek
While tracking the value of a knowledge worker's ideas is in its infancy, social networks provide valuable laboratories. A few giants, such as IBM, build their own social nets. Others implement offerings from software makers such as SAS. These are designed to link workers and to study their ideas and circles of influence.
The challenge, then, is to figure out which workers come up with winning ideas. Cataphora starts by studying communications through a company. Certain employees produce chunks of data—whether words or software code—that later pop up in other messages. The people copied most often, Cataphora concludes, are thought leaders. They get big dark blue circles. Other people spot the valuable content and pass it on. Those are networked curators. Their circles are bright red.
Companies warm up to social networks | csmonitor.com
Modruson and Challenger predict that social networks will become as integral to business as e-mail. And, if information truly is power, then expect social networks to topple established business hierarchies.
Blogs vs Social Networks « 3008
Shows blogs and social networks still rank low in terms of use and credibility when it comes to brands or products. Newspapers, TV and magazines remain dominant.
Live blogging: Max Levchin of Slide opens the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes » VentureBeat
“The future of social apps are split between brand advertising and direct-to-consumer sales,” he said. The latter is what the next few years will be all about. He said he got back from Asia, watching people make billions of dollars selling virtual goo
How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It - Faceboogle - Google vs. Facebook - Popular Mechanics
I'm not convinced search is dead. There is too much new content outside what your social network knows about. Data produced from a social network - e.g. FriendFeed - will rise in visibility and importance to complement old fashioned search results.
Social networking to taper off in five years - Network World
According to market tracker Datamonitor, global active memberships in social networking sites will reach 230 million at the end of 2007. The firm expects revenues from social networking services to reach $965 million this year, growing to $2.4 billion by
Facebook is Boring As Hell (Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection)
Conversations aren't occurring on Facebook for this blogger. They're happening on Twitter, FriendFeed, blogs, etc. I'm noticing a similar trend. But always the question:Is this isolated to the early tech adopter crowd? Or is it a harbinger of things to
Imagining an Email Social Network « I’m Not Actually a Geek
Email has been proposed as a nearly ready-to-go social network. Just how would that work?
Should corporate IT ban Facebook? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
This sometimes feels like an apples-and-oranges question. Facebook as an external app with no company link is one thing. Facebook becoming the internal portal is a different question.
Scoble Loses Interest in Facebook - 5,000 “Friends” Will Do That « I’m Not Actually a Geek
Facebook Fatigue Watch: U.S. Feb 08 Down, But Is It a Trend? « I’m Not Actually a Geek
Feb08 down but Feb 07 was also. Trend or seasonality?
What Makes the Different Social Networks Tick? « I’m Not Actually a Geek
I wanted to map several social networks to understand them a little more. Not so much the technical ins-and-outs (APIs, open social, openID, etc.). More in the sense of why people use the different networks.
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