Toronto has over a million Facebook users and is one of the largest social networking communities globally. With over 120 million active users globally, Facebook is the 4th most trafficked website in teh world, and the most trafficked social media site in the worls (ComScore). Over 55,000 users, work related, college and high school networks use Facebook. However more than 50% of the users are college graduates.

It holds some amazing photo reach as well as it is also the No. 1 photo…

With the rapid innovation growth of social mediated solutions, executives world-wide need solutions to track the trends of their brands across leading solutions like:

Facebook, MySpace, You Tube, Delicious, Digg, and now even your Twitters....

let alone the blog market with a new blog added to the www web every 5 seconds...the growth is simply staggering. When are we working with our clients, they always ask who should we partner with to understand the impact of the conversations taking…

With over 96% of innovations failing, and the top two areas to yield innovation results are: 1) Business Model Innovation and 2) Networking.

What is the signficance of networking(Value Networks) to support Innovation and Growth? First, let's define what is a value based network.

A Value network is a complex set of social and technical esources. Value Networks work together via relationships to create social goods (public) or (economic value). This value takes the form of knowledge and…

Knowledge Management is a management discipline that continues to evolve in theory and practice. In simple terms, KM is best defined as the body of understanding and skills that is mentally constructed by people. Knowledge is increased through interaction with information (typically generated from other people).

There are typically three major types of knowledge:

1.) Embodied or tactit or implicit knowledge: Undocumented information in human beings such as intuition, empathy, experience…

What’s happening with Web 2.0 in the enterprise?

With the slowing economy - Web 2.0 is falling under the discretionary spending column due to the belt tightening underway in the industry. As a Goldman Sachs analyst put it, execs are “searching for solutions with a high and fast ROI,” a criteria that is not appropriate with emerging technologies.According to a Computerworld story about the Web 2.0 market, 63 percent of IT pros say they expect Web 2.0 technologies to have a moderate or…

I get asked all the time "Are there any guidelines I can follow to increase the probability for a successful implementation of corporate social networking solution within my organization?

While there are no hard or fast rules, here are some easy to follow recommendations from some of our customers:

• Understand the business problem you are trying to solve with online social networking software - before you begin.
• Start with a pilot project and don't even think about an enterprise wide…

Over the last 10 years the Internet has changed our lives forever - both from a social and business perspective. Currently we are in a phase which the experts call - Web 2.0 which provides us with a whole new set of cool tools that take us way beyond ordinary web browsing, searching and publishing of web sites. These new Web 2.0 tools take the Internet to a whole new level allowing almost any individual to actively participate, interact and create content on the web with little or no…