Formal information overload > email & intranets are being ignored. Providing information that is timely, be it formal, informal or in fact social / community driven. To me, it’s a natural example of both informal and social learning. On Twitter, (obviously an external example) I follow the CTO of Cisco ( Padmasree Warrior ) and CIO of BT ( JP Rangswami ). Tags: Culture social networking formal informal micro-blogging social social learning twitter yammer Employees want to connect with one another. MORE >>

The same applies of course to any other social networking tool, but unlike Facebook for example, Twitter contains very few distractions. Twitter quite simply connects you with people who are interesting, informative or humourous. For me, the value of Twitter is in tapping into its social critical mass. No, Twitter is not so much about the information and useful links you can gain access to. Tags: connections social networking Twitter FaceBook There are two types of people in the world. Those who get Twitter and those who don't. You too? MORE >>

Oh no, I hear you say, not another social network! The reason you may not have heard about Yammer is that it is a private as opposed to public networking site.  Membership is open only to the employees of an individual company and as such, its value proposition is very different to the public networks. As such, we became one of the 200,000 companies in 16 countries to open a Yammer network several months ago. Instead, we have let the network spread by word of mouth. Nearly 70% of our people have joined our Yammer network in the last six weeks. MORE >>

Social media is not social learning. Brian Solis took a crack at defining social media as follows: <the> democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as: <a> group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, So why is social media not social learning? You can’t do ‘social media’, but you can ‘social learn’. Social learning is a behavior. MORE >>

Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, August 3, 2009: Social Networking on Intranets Summary: Community features are spreading from "Web 2.0" Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features. Through several rounds of research on intranet portals , weve repeatedly reached the same conclusions: When Intranet information architectures are structured according to the org chart, employees have a hard time finding their way around. Its better to structure information according to how people use it, rather than what department owns it. MORE >>