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These companies, say the authors, are showing that the use of blogs, wikis, widgets and other Web 2.0 tools "encourages horizontal collaboration and harnesses the power of collective intelligence to boost productivity, foster innovation and create enhanced value".

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Très bonne analyse de la situation : les principaux outils nécessaires à l'animation de réseaux sociaux sont disponibles et gratuits ; il n'y a qu'à réfléchir aux processus à mettre en oeuvre pour déployer des solutions immédiatement opérationnelles.

Pour l'instant, je n'ai vu que la séance de clôture mais le contenu à l'air d'être riche. Une journée dans la vie d'un télétravaileur, organisateur d'évènement, animateur de réseau, veilleur.

Youth researcher Max Valiquette says those under 25 don't know a world where communication and global information isn't instant and ubiquitous.

Le troisième bug important de Google en 1mois et demi. Celui met à mal la confidentialité des données, puisqu'il a rendu visible pendant un temps court des donées confidentielles à d'autres personnes. A creuser...

The cross-section of HR and more mathematical / data - based approaches and social networking platforms bring interesting and perhaps controversial angles to the space that we are discussing: "... The chart looks like colorful pop-art doughnuts flying through space. The message, though, is anything but playful. Based on a mathematical analysis of work at an undisclosed Internet company, each circle represents an employee. Those who generate or pass along valuable information within the company are portrayed as large and dark-colored. And the others? "On a relative scale, they don't add a hell of a lot," says Elizabeth Charnock, chief executive of Cataphora, the Redwood City (Calif.) company that carried out the study for a client. The upshot for managers faced with a mandate to downsize: Small and pale circles might be a good place to start cutting."

Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting, which has been embraced by most of its competitors but has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and some members of Congress.

A very good demonstration that SharePoint Portal Server is not an Enterprise 2.0 solution, and that you must avoir using it if you want your users build new real social practices for productivity, reactivity, innovation and competitiveness.

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Not only Amazon and Google are providing cloud computing infrastructures. GoGrid dans Rackspace also. Here is the interview of the CEO and the VP Technology of GoGrid.

Excellent article from McKinsey about how web 2.0 tools can improve productivity and efficiency in the company. They are also very well explaining difference between participation and collaboration, which we are ourselves explaining it for many years. It's good to see this difference recognized. The different categories are very well explained also. But one of the key point of this article in the introduction of workflow tecnologies in this area. McKinsey is saying that workflow + participatory technologies is a key enhancer for the company. We agree of course with this, first because companies need both world, and second because providing automation and participation capabilities to the information system is the best way to improve it drastically.

Interview of the creator of the internet browser, and one of the initiator of this incredible new era of the internet.

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