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Is there still room for new social networks?

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Image via Wikipedia. If you’re like me, you probably remember a period not too long ago when you couldn’t open your e-mail without getting another invitation to join a new social network. More recently, those invitations stopped coming as everyone decided that there’s no more room for new social networks.

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Re-Inventing Organizations: Taking “Mad Men” into the 21st Century

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. We live in a business environment characterized by network driven ecosystems, 24/7 access to global communications and the ability to access and analyze vast amounts of information. For many organizations, culture and business processes are still rooted in the “Mad Men” era.

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Plato, the Allegory of the Cave, and the digital enterprise, part 2

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Source: Wikipedia ). Much of the workforce in large organization is like prisoners who only see and touch a “manufactured reality,” a poor representation of what is available in the outside world, mere shadows of what a full digital experience should be.

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Your online reputation abhors a vacuum in Google search

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Well, according to Wikipedia , “the ‘China syndrome’ is a nuclear meltdown scenario so named for the fanciful idea that there would be nothing to stop the meltdown tunneling its way to the other side of the world, China.” This results in not just a vacuum—which Google abhors—but in a black hole.

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. In the meantime, this is what happened to Wikipedia: Wikipedia Growth – Source. Why does that happen?

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Are Employers Ready for the Connected Generation?

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. Organizations used to lock access to the Internet, then to social media and any other kind of possible distraction. Many organizations do not seem able to understand this. Norms not designed to serve an information thirsty workforce, fully digitalized and addicted to social networks.

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Top 5 Social Business Myths

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. As companies go through their social business journey, there are several “truths” about their use of social media that are not necessarily observed in real life, but still get treated as dogma, as if social technologies were so special and enigmatic that deserve a quasi-religious status.