John Hagel's Edge Perspectives

An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network

Network effects go only so far - digital autopsy of Friendster focuses on cost-benefit rations and k-core distributions

Learning subverts business entropy

Purposeful social learning as THE key business skill - short piece via Riita Raesmaa

Intertwingled Work

Intertwingled work - weaving together many strands of an emerging view of work in an Enterprise 2.0 world

Hacking Society

Hacking Society - extraordinary minds explore how networks are transforming our economy and society

The plural of personal is social

The plural of personal is social - man is born social, many companies were not - the latest from JP Rangaswami

The gift shift: what’s social about social media?

Social media is a gift culture - but what really needs to be developed is how it interacts with markets

Excapite

Now, here’s a way to profitably consume a lot of time - exploring the narrative of the network

‘Superorganisations’ – Learning from Nature’s Networks

You’ll find no straight lines in nature - using bio-mimicry to design more resilient and robust systems

Social Business Manifesto —

I like this manifesto by the organizers of the Social Business Forum in Milan - especially “Chaos is simplicity that we cannot see yet”

In networks, cooperation trumps collaboration

To harness the power of networks, we need to understand the distinction between collaboration and cooperation

A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things

A Manifesto of Networked Things - rise of things as active participants - great posting from past