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Much has been written and said about "information overload" during the past several years. Noted technologist and author, Clay Shirky , gave a widely referenced talk about it at the Web 2.0 Expo conference a year ago. He posited that information overload is actually filter failure. I...

If you consider yourself a marketing maven, take a step back and review your current campaigns. Are you marketing to the ever-growing digital crowd? According to Marketers Moving to Digital Media , you probably are. If you're not, you're probably looking at options to make you successful...

“Computer mediated collective action” is a term that was coined in the " Picturing Usenet: Mapping Computer-Mediated Collective Action ” research paper, published in 2005 and co-authored by Dr. Marc Smith , Chief Social Scientist of Telligent. Before social networking, before online...

While the modern “ social networking ” meme (as opposed to the classic “ social network ” and “ online communities ” memes) appears to have been caught in a hype cycle , the “collaboration” meme seems to have gone through ebbs, flows, and pendulum swings...

As I had described in a blog entry a few weeks ago, being “social” is just one aspect of the modern business life cycle . In this post, I highlight several different kinds of connections that people may have within teams, communities, and networks that are more than just social and not the...

I don’t know if Dion gets any creative design help for the charts in his blog entries , but I always look forward to seeing them. Here are my favorites (in logical order from my perspective) that are worth at least a thousand words on my or anyone else’s blog.

Dion Hinchcliffe is spot on (as usual) in his blog entry about 12 Rules For Bringing 'Social' To Your Business , which is definitely a must-read. However, "social business" or “making a business more social” is just one aspect of the modern business life cycle. Being social...

Or what your employees are really doing? Are they collaborating? Are they sharing their insights and knowledge? Are they even communicating with each other? At Telligent, we use Community Server Evolution to power our intranet (and we also have Microsoft SharePoint). Since we're all fairly busy...