It’s a wonderful method in which employee expertise can be shared through informal and social means. Two great examples of this in action includes the  Alcatel-Lucent ALU YouTube Service and the great work that my buddy Bert Sandie has accomplished over at  Electronic Arts. If you utilize Jive, SharePoint, Confluence, Liferay, etc. A few facts about YouTube: 24 hours of content is uploaded every minute. YouTube has more than 490 million unique users worldwide per month. There are over 92 billion page views each month. Users spend roughly 2.9 security. technology. MORE >>

An Obsession with organisation "Organizations lull themselves into a false sense of safety with their hierarchies rather than recognize the danger of discouraging information flow, keeping data out of the minds of people who need it." - The New Social Learning ( Marcia Conner , Tony Bingham ) A few days back I read a fun article by Gia Lyons of Jive Software. In my opinion upfront information architecture for social business platforms is a very bad idea. For example a piece of content that sits in Products->Consulting, could also sit in Products->Consulting. MORE >>

In this next profile, extracted from The New Learning Architect , we see another fine example of how a learning and development department has been able to break free from the confines of the face-to-face course to provide support for learning across multiple contexts. good example would be Bupa’s course on time management using Outlook. Community and collaboration Working alongside the new blended learning offering sits a powerful community, collaboration and social media platform called Bupa Live, which is based on Jive SBS software. As Tiina says, “It works!" MORE >>

Front-running companies are installing social networks like Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, Ideo, and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. Here’s an example. Activity stream – for monitoring the organizational pulse in real time, sharing what you’re doing, being referred to useful information, asking for help, accelerating the flow of news and information, and keeping up with change. How will you take advantage of your in-house social network? Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence. EDITOR.* MORE >>

For example I use an application called Presenter Pro that's a free download from Rexi Media. The app is a little pocketbook of wisdom on making better presentations and has examples, exercises and quizzes that'll keep you engaged. This apart, enterprise social software like Jive and Yammer have full fledged interfaces on the major smartphone platforms. For enterprise social software, this takes away a huge barrier to participation - people can get answers to their questions, see interesting information emerge and co-create knowledge on the go. Here's a tutorial. MORE >>