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With global expansion, new customers and new talent, I am pleased to report Telligent's record-breaking sales quarter ending January 31, 2011. We have experienced a lot of growth and innovation so far this year with the addition of the Paris office, and the launch of our new thought leadership series...

“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 just read Matt Rhode’s “ Build your own community or go where people are? Do both ” blog entry and was compelled to add to it with my own blog entry beyond just my usual retweet gesture because this issue has become an FAQ lately for many organizations I’ve talked to. My answer...

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...

[Yes, today is April Fool’s Day, but this is most definitely not a joke. I had thought about posting tomorrow, but this news is simply too exciting to wait even for just one more day.] Facebook is now growing so quickly (getting nearly a million new members each day!) that the New York Times...

Individually, the bios of the 1900 or so followers that I have on Twitter wouldn't reveal much about what kind of person I am or what topics I most often tweet about, but in aggregate and in the form of a word cloud (courtesy of http://tweetsheep.com ), some keywords emerge. Here's the word...