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Many of these business trends and processes can be implemented using web 2.0 technologies and social software applications.

Here's one more how-to book on using the wisdom of crowds or "the global brain" to harness creativity and innovation. I haven't read it but the amount of academic research has florished the last two yeas so this new book probably has some new ideas for business development managers.

Blogs - social networking applications and community software solutions - are moving from the social realm to the corporate world. But companies aren't replicating the free-flowing exchange that has been a hallmark of the broader blogosphere.

What does it take for business development managers to wake up to enterprise 2.0? Over the last few years, management gurus Malone, Hagel, and now Hamel have published books on innovative management and new technologies - social network tools and community software applications. Here's a taste of what Gary Hamel has to say...

As the need for knowledge workers increases, hopefully, business development managers will consider these innovative management ideas along with the new web 2.0 technologies (social networks and community applications) to implement them.

From knowledge at wharton... New book, "Competing in a Flat World" is a great start for any business development manager that is charged with figuring out how to apply innovative ideas.

"Connecting the Corporate Dots: Social Networks Reveal How Employees and Companies Operate" from Wharton.

"Jobs Search Process Frustrates Many Young Recruits"

This is from an article in the Washington post on federal job recruitment. 

"To learn what is right and wrong about federal recruiting, listen to young people."

The NYTimes has an interesting article, Hollywood Clicks on the Work of Web Auteurs.