I enjoyed Dennis Howlett’s recent rant, rubbishing Enterprise 2.0 as ‘a crock’. He is bang on in his criticism that E2.0 advocates largely ignore issues in deploying E2.0 structures and technologies in corporates and sectors subject to public corporate responsibilities. It is a bit much though to dismiss the E2.0 movement as having any validity. [...]

What This Post Is About
(1) Literature, art and history tell us that humans have always been connected.
(2) Social media give us new and evolving ways to connect, discover and inspire.

Evidence From The Middle Ages
I am currently reading Roads To Santiago: detours & riddles in the lands and history of Spain by Cees Noteboom. He describes [...]

This week’s post was inspired by Steve Boese on his HR Technology blog. Writing about Mark Granovetter’s 1973 paper The Strength of Weak Ties, Steve asks for recommendations on other classic works we swear by. I have several that provide first principle underpinnings of the approaches and techniques The Smart Work Company uses when working [...]