Typical promotional activities such as newsletters, testimonials and merchandise not only raise awareness among the users, but also act as ongoing reminders. Not to mention that just about everyone knows how to use Facebook or Twitter already, so in that sense they have prior knowledge. In summary, then, we see that enterprise social networking is multifaceted. In the meantime, bear in mind that social forums grow organically. Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace. Not off the charts like at Deloitte , yet very much alive and growing. enterprise 2.0

I received the email newsletter from eLearn Magazine earlier this week and was interested in the lead article: “ Finding a Place for Twitter in Higher Education “ The article makes some interesting points so please read the original on the link above, but I want to comment on just a couple of them; “Twitter has various educational uses in both developing countries and more developed ones. see many people (students and teachers) using Twitter as the feed in to their blog, or research profile, or Flickr account, or something similar. Twitter eLearning Academia 2.0