Collaboration 2.0 and Enterprise Social Networking

President Obama's use of new media to gain support and raise funds while on the campaign trail, leveraging social media meccas such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, earned him big points with Web 2.0 advocates, but since his presidency began, bringing similar technologies to the federal government has produced a age-old set of challenges...

A creative way to relate words and phrases to key collaboration concepts within organizations... Acknowledge collaborative contributors; watch your Body language...

Here is a brief overview of several new technologies that could have a profound impact on how we share and communicate with social media in the future…

Yesterday Facebook accepted a $200 million dollar offer from Russian Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies. The deal values Facebook at $10 billion

A few days ago it was announced that Iran had blocked access to Facebook from all dial-up and broadband Internet users throughout the country; today we announce

A list of notable Web 2.0, social media, collaboration, tech, marketing and networking events for June 2009...

Recently Facebook reportedly turned down $200 million in funding at a generous valuation of $8 billion because of the stipulation that a board of directors seat

According to comScore estimates, Twitter has reached 32 million global visitors in the month of April, up from 19 million in March, and 10 million in February...

Talk about fast, you don't even need to log in to use this real-time document collaboration tool. ShowDocument is a flash-based app and super-simple to get going, simply browse for a document file, click upload, and you have a live workspace to edit your document. Quickly invite others to your workspace by...

Bringing collaboration to the mobile workspace will require unifying communications between wired, Wi-Fi, and cellular networks. Collaboration in Motion is...

While brown-nose Sandy in accounting is Tweeting about how much she loathes her supervisor and Steve from procurement is boasting to his friends on Facebook about the new position he was offered at P&G, Edward in IT is scanning MySpace to make sure no drunken photos...

Today we use email for everything from sending messages, delegating tasks, collaborating on documents and files, to managing contacts and more. Many of us...

Here is a juicy little bit of information for this Friday night. On a bookshelf near you this July 14th you can pick up a copy of "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook. A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal." Bestselling author Ben Mezrich tells the amazingly true story of...

Since the birth of the World Wide Web companies large and small have been playing the domain name game; trying to come up with a killer domain that appropriately reflects their brand or creatively spinning...

For those of us that frequently create PowerPoint style presentations with a colleague or in a team, we know the mundane task of creating slides, emailing them to our colleague to review, then they email them back with changes, rinse, repeat, blah… Luckily now there is a better way thanks to Adobe Presentations.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is considering blocking all access to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The concern is that these platforms "make it way too easy for people with bad intentions to push malicious code to unsuspecting users," says a U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) source.

By the powers vested in me by the blogosphere I hereby declare this MySpace Charity Week! I urge everyone (who still has an active MySpace account) to login for a few minutes and post a bulletin, a few recent pictures or say hello to a friend you haven't spoken to in a while. The "Forgot your password?" link may come in handy.

New research shows that Twitter is gaining recognition as a useful business resource among younger demographics. Twitter has become popular for young professionals as a way to find answers from experts, poll their followers, share opinions, and communicate during conferences and while traveling.

If you are having trouble accessing Twitter today the service is apparently under heavy denial-of-service (DoS) attacks since around 9am EST. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone states, "We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to ... investigate."

The top story on the social Web this week is Facebook's acquisition of social media aggregator FriendFeed. The transaction is reported around $50 million. FriendFeed's traffic is an estimated 1 million visitors per month which is minute compared to Facebook's 250 million. With a recent Facebook valuation of $10 billion though, the numbers...