Business Social Network Software

Have you ever landed on a web site that was like a museum - look but don't touch? You know, the static ones with old information. Or one where you couldn't find the information you wanted? The kind where the customers needs were an after thought. I dread those. You see them all over the web. From small business sites to medium ones and even large company sites. They all suck.

CIO Insight, "Collaboration tools—which allow employees to brainstorm, plan, analyze, share work and make decisions together—are among the most important technologies of 2008.

The following three posts have a wealth of information, ideas and tips for business managers and CIO's about social media, web 2.0, social networking, and online communities. The fact is, this stuff, social software has to be used to be fully appreciated. It takes time to grasp its power and usefulness.

JP Rangaswami, on his blog, confused of calcutta, has an insightful discussion, "Musing about enterprise information and flow. ...doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, search engines, aggregators, ad servers, data miners, ad servers and text scrapers?

Corporations trying to capture the "wisdom of crowds" (employees, customers, partners) are using social networking software - web 2.0 technologies.

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

I've been using del.icio.us (social bookmarking site) for the last three years to bookmark and share what I find interesting on the net. Also, I use it as my primary search tool. Google/Yahool are great for the generic stuff but for the meaningful stuff I use del.icio.us. Why?

The net is getting smarter... Things change fast these days... Knowledge, deep smarts, information, data are everywhere... So, people who have the ability, all of us, to imagine and connect dots will thrive.

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.