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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

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and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks. was that employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to more chance conversations and larger social networks.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

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While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. As it happens this model closer to LinkedIn than any of the other major social networking platforms of today.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

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Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. By providing both a public platform as well as an enterprise version, Spoke provided a far richer scope of connections for both groups to tap.

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Enterprise Twitter – or how to tap social networks for expertise without using email - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application | Main | More media coverage of Enterprise 2.0

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Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks - Trends in the Living Networks

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From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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Microsoft enters enterprise social network software - Trends in the Living Networks

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This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. It will then allow people to request to be connected to others in their organization that have specific expertise. See some screenshots here.

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

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About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Particls switches on the power of RSS | Main | A week of hot news on the web: Trade sales mark the boom » Launching the Web 2.0 and the Enterprise here. and the Enterprise here.

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