Why Your Business May Need Internal Social Software: Serviceable new intro to #socbiz. Collaboration on "steroids."

Andrew McAfee: "Enterprise 2.0 is no longer perceived as a wild new idea. The CIOs I was talking with apparently considered it just a good idea, and one whose time had come."

Abstract: This document is the final report of the W3C Social Web Incubator Group. This report presents systems and technologies that are working towards enabling a Social Web, and is followed by a strategy for standardizing this work in order to ensure the Social Web is open, decentralized, and royalty-free.

"Two thirds of organizations today have sprinkled some kind of social media pixie dust on their intranets, yet for most businesses today they are still well behind the state-of-the-art compared to what most users have in their personal lives. Yet there is mounting evidence that despite the concerns that organizations have, social can be a real benefit."

A world without e-mail: One man's vision of a social workplace: A beautiful vision :)

"SwiftRiver is a free and open source platform that helps users make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. The SwiftRiver platform was born out of the need to understand and act upon a wave of massive amounts of crisis data that tends to overwhelm in the first 24 hours of a disaster."

Why don't you go take a look at and get her a job?

Software as Services | ZDNet.com

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