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This is a blog sponsored by Intuit to promote their Quickbase product and yes I am a contributor. However the blog has a diverse array of contributors tackling the topic "The Future of Work" from many angles. The blogging team includes Bill Ives who you may know as a blogger from his Portals and KM blog and also Patti Anklam who also posts to her home blog "Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness" Patti is a serious social network analyst having worked with Rob Cross at IBM's IKO in the late 90's.

Blogs are easy to create and update, and rich, useful, and original blog content will encourage readers to come back to your site. Here are some tips for making the most of your blog.

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A curated list of the best data visualisation blogs - seeing is believing!

"By capturing the big data on user activity and using this data to create a more engaging experience, businesses can better engage and motivate employees. As many at Dreamforce 2013 learned, combining big data with gamification is a powerful tool for motivating better performance, driving business results, and generating a competitive advantage."

"SUN CEO Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Innovation Loves a Crisis"

This blog was initiated following a KIN WEB 2.0 Roundtable event as a way of sharing items relating to that topic. Any KIN members that would like to participate in adding entries to this blog, email me and I will set you up as an author

Businesses are learning that social networking, used properly, can be an effective business tool. Having your employees involved in the community can enhance the company's reputation and bring in more business - so long as it's done right. Thus many large firms, especially in the technology industry, are actually encouraging their employees to blog, tweet, and participate in forums and social sites on company time.\n\nEven so, you still need to exert some control over how these sites are used. You can't just give employees free rein and hope they'll all exercise common sense. And you can't, in all fairness, blame them for violating rules that don't officially exist. You need a social networking policy that explicitly lays out what is and isn't permissible, both on the company's network and outside of it if they're presenting themselves as representatives of the company.

Businesses are learning that social networking, used properly, can be an effective business tool. Having your employees involved in the community can enhance the company's reputation and bring in more business - so long as it's done right. Thus many large firms, especially in the technology industry, are actually encouraging their employees to blog, tweet, and participate in forums and social sites on company time. Even so, you still need to exert some control over how these sites are used. You can't just give employees free rein and hope they'll all exercise common sense. And you can't, in all fairness, blame them for violating rules that don't officially exist. You need a social networking policy that explicitly lays out what is and isn't permissible, both on the company's network and outside of it if they're presenting themselves as representatives of the company.

We are often faced with a hiatus in knowledge transfer, but the 4 year gap between London and Rio Olympics poses special problems. An interesting post from the HBR Blog

Systems of insight are the business discipline and technology to harness insights and turn data into action.

" A useful blog for perspectives on developments in innovative organisations."

"Trampoline, who are presenting at The KIN 'Locate, Collect, Connect' quarterly workshop, have been attending the 'Enterprise 2.0' event in Boston. Here they blog about what's different, what makes a great party and what's hot (certainly not the toaster!)"

" interesting article looking at the impact on 'Getting Facebook ready for work' containing a number of useful links to other articles and blogs on the topic of social networking tools and their possible applications."

StopThinkSocial - Blog from David Christopher. Some pragmatic ways of coping with info torrents

From Jed Christanson's blog - predictin market software review