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Creating a Return on Investment (ROI) calculation for Enterprise 2.0 and internal social media

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A major challenge for organizations that are considering internal social media initiatives is that a business case including a financial justification is frequently required. Chapter 16 of my report Implementing Enterprise 2.0 If so, also have a look at the free chapters from Implementing Enterprise 2.0 and social media.

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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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Our Freemium Future: Development teams take advantage of free, entry-level versions of software 

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From the perspective of Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at reporting and analytics leader Actuate, freemium software is a resource that can really help the enterprise. Either home-grown or licensed from a vendor who billed you for maintenance at periodic intervals? Remember back when software was simple?

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Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration World - The Law meets Web 2.0

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I'm at Day Two of Online Social Networking & Business Collaboration World , where I'm chairing the plenary sessions and enterprise streams. Enterprise stream - Part 1. Enterprise stream - Part 2. Laurel Papworth, Director and Social Networks Strategist, World Communities. Partner event : Enterprise 2.0

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