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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project fielded a nationally representative phone survey about the social and civic lives of SNS users and reported the findings in June 2011 in a report entitled "Social networking sites and our lives."1 During the phone survey, 269 of 877 original respondents who were Facebook users gave us permission to access data on their use of Facebook so that it could be matched with their survey responses. We partnered with Facebook to match individual responses from the survey with profile information and computer logs of how those same people used Facebook services over a one-month period in November 2010 that overlapped when the survey was in the field.

"these pages are invaluable for anyone setting up and SNA survey for the first time using the Optimice survey tool. The results from this survey are compatible with the UCI Net Analysis Tools used by our KIN Associate, Andrew Parker"

"Take Your Surveys To A Whole New Level All the survey features you need plus an array of extra features to turn your regular surveys into engaging conversations."

" Report presenting the major findings of of a March 2009 Deloitte Survey looks at how Talent tactics and strategies have changed since their January 2009 survey."

"LexisNexis has surveyed 500 people working in information services in a range of roles across Europe.  In depth interviews were held with professionals in France, Germany and the Netherlands and a broader survey was sent out to information professionals across Europe.  Finally, the researchers interviewed senior academics to review the findings."

In this paper, we survey a number of different knowledge management strategies and a range of driving forces for knowledge management activities. We synthesise these using an extended version of an existing "KM spectrum"; apply a knowledge engineering approach to provide further guidance for the KM spectrum; and then describe a simple classification approach that links the driving forces to KM strategies, using a number of published heuristics. Finally, a case study is presented in which we apply our approach and discuss its usefulness.

"The Top 100 Tools for Learning was compiled from the votes of over 500 learning professionals in workplace learning and education from 48 countries worldwide in the 7th Annual Survey, by Jane Hart, Centre for Learning & Peformance Technologies"

"Use this simple tool to send out surveys and gather information across your Network. Laurence Lock-Lee who presented at a recent KIN Workshop is happy to help with any questions if you get stuck! llocklee@optimice.com.au"

" Innovation Culture - MIT Sloane talk by the charismatic CEO, Terri Kelly. The top things I took from this inspiring talk are: - Staff turnover only 5% (the new hire process is lengthy and rigorous to ensure cultural fit) - CEO is elected by staff (CEO is one of the few job titles in the organisation - Costs are regarded as 'investments' - Every individual has a sponsor or coach - Leaders get there through others wanting to follow, not their power - Innovation culture is the MAIN driver of business results - Business units are no larger than 250 people (the founder talked about divide to multiply) - 'Give them the right tools, minimal bureaucracy, responsibility for P&L, expect people to lattice (network), organise around small teams'. Lastly, the culture at Gore has evloved of 50 years - it takes huge effort (equal to strategy and business development) and a lot of time to change culture I screen grabbed some of the culture survey questions that staff fill out about their leaders (not the other way round) http://members.ki-network.org/innovation/Innovation%20SIG%20Picture%20Library/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=1"

" Report of recent US survey of HR Managers reveals lack of preparation for demographic changes and lack of knowledge strategies to address them… "In the USA only 12% of HR Managers see Knowledge Retention as a priority despite the fact that 20% of the workforce will be eligible for retirement over the next few years…""

Fred Wilson- A VC- Musings of a VC in NYC Fred is a long term NYC based VC who funded some of the late 90's Silicon Alley ventures. I noted somebody mentioned Seth Godin above. As Flatiron Partners Fred Wilson was a funder behind Seth's Yoyodyne online marketing company that was sold to Yahoo. On Fred's blog is a post about "Disruption" and link to the video of a presentation recently given at Google surveying industries and where opportunities for investing in disruption exist. It is highly recommended viewing for a look ahead.

"The next generation of social technologies is beginning to transform the way people communicate and work with each other, according to a new survey."

Executives want greater speed and sophistication in their decision-making, but most say their ambition is greater than what their organisations are ready for.

SharePoint is unquestionably a success from a licensing perspective, but dig behind the firewall and the picture looks more chequered. For example in a uSamp survey last year, 80 percent of organizations using SharePoint said employees continue to share documents as email attachments. Recently, the UK Met Office abandoned a twoyear SharePoint implementation project in favor of the cloud-based Huddle service. Even where SharePoint is used, people aren't truly collaborating with it. Team sites are often really document graveyards where content is stored once collaboration has stopped.

Calculates your Twitter value - not to be taken too seriously!

Calculates your Twitter value - not to be taken too seriously!

Steve, also take a look at http://pages.videojug.com/surveys/1-Knowledge-Calculator-UK- Also not to be taken seriously other than as a clever bit of viral marketing

Calculates your untapped knowledge value - also not to be taken seriously other than as a good bit of viral marketing!

The latest surveys continue to show the social computing provides real business benefits, but is it really as rosy as all that? Dion Hinchcliffe takes a closer look at what benefits are consistently reported with Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business while looking at where the actual value lies.

New McKinsey research shows that a payday could be arriving faster than expected. A new class of company is emerging-one that uses collaborative Web 2.0 technologies intensively to connect the internal efforts of employees and to extend the organization's reach to customers, partners, and suppliers. We call this new kind of company the networked enterprise. Results from our analysis of proprietary survey data show that the Web 2.0 use of these companies is significantly improving their reported performance.

interesting reading ahead of the September workshop