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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. The basic principle was inviting friends to connect, and using that to find the quickest social path to people you wanted to meet.

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Creating competitive differentiation with Enterprise 2.0

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Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Here is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of my book Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , providing some of the basic arguments as to why Enterprise 2.0 IT Doesn’t Matter , Nicholas Carr, Harvard Business Review, May 2003. An IT Debate – Letters to the Editor , Harvard Business Review, June 2003.

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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. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value.

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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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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. Many organizations seem to think the enterprise social network software will provide an immediate solution, and many have stumbled already in applying these tools.

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What is Enterprise 2.0? – a primer - 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 « The power of Enterprise Mashups | Main | Interview on SkyBusiness TV: the state of the Yahoo! Microsoft battle » What is Enterprise 2.0? – Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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