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Wow, 2010 flew by! 2010 has been an interesting year for me. The biggest thing has been my new job, a new challenge. After 10 good years at Océ, I started working for Entopic and am enjoying it. I'm curious what 2011 will be about. I want to thank all of you for reading this blog, interacting with me offline and online. I hope we can continue our conversation in good health next year! I wish you and your loved ones Happy Holidays! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas time and a Happy New Year.

Techcrunch ran a very interesting series of posts about the history of social networking . They were written by Mark Suster ( @msuster ). I think you should go ahead and read all the posts, but I'll pass on some highlights here to get you started. Marks posts are about the “6 C’s of Social Networking” – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). He stresses that social networks exists before they were hyped in our time they just work better now "and there are more people doin’ it." And a bit further on: "Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.  But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit, reinvented, with more people online and trained. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0 companies versus the Web 1.0 ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to c...

Commoncraft does it again ! They released another video explaining something no too easy in an easy way. This video is about social media and the workplace . It mostly focuses on explaining how companies can join in the conversation. And how not only comms but all employees can be empowered by being trained and giving them clear social media guidelines . I enjoyed it and hope you will too. It's great stuff when you need to explain to company decision makers what social media is about and how to use it.

Jane McConnell raised an interesting question about the relationship between social media and culture . She asked: Will cultural differences impact adoption of social media? Will culture “eat” social media for breakfast? or will social media “eat” culture? I find social media interesting because I see the relationship between social media and culture as bi-directional. The (company) culture has to fit social media (culture) for successful adoption. But I also see culture change due to social media use. I think this has to do with the underlying concepts of social media, like relational networks, information is social and humans as social beings. These concepts fit us people very well, because they are deeply human. Tapping into these concepts when rolling out social media is a key to success (and positive cultural change). Rolling it out as technology (non-human focus) is a key to failure (and negative cultural change). Als o refer to this interesting post about cultural differences ....

Luis Suarez recently pointed me to this. IBM set up an Expert Network on Slideshare , giving us a way to see all the slides produced by IBM-ers. Adam Christensen has a post explaining why this was done . This got me thinking. I think this is a smart move.  Isn’t this a great way to implicitly show the expertise of IBM-ers? Of course LinkedIn tries to do the same, the other way around. You set up your profile. And you can connect Slideshare to your profile. Problem is, nobody says that profile is correct. And clicking through to the proof (e.g. your presentations) is not that easy. Furthermore you can´t see if that person is the only expert in that organization or the organization as a whole has expertise in a certain area. I think if you’re looking for someone from IBM to help you out, the Expert Network on Slideshare will get you to the right man/woman much more quickly. What do you think of this move? And do you think such a network in Slideshare is a better expertise locat...

Just wanted to write a short post to create some buzz for Jane McConnell ’s latest Global Intranet Trends 2011 report . I hope you all go and read it. Jane posted a couple of highlight posts about the report. I’m reading it now and will write one or more posts about it. I love reading the report. You get a great overview of the state of affairs in the (social) intranet landscape. It’s also a great way to benchmark your intranet or an intranet you’re working on. This year Jane also published a free executive snapshot . It gives you a good idea of the quality and richness of the report. I hope you go ahead and download/buy the report. And also participate in the survey next year!