This is the season where many bloggers are providing their predictions for the year ahead. I tend to opt out of these because a year is both too long and too short to foresee many types of change, which are like rainstorms or earthquakes: you know one’s coming, but you don’t know quite when or […]
Month: January 2008
Looking for examples of social networking for professional development
I’m copying here something I’ve just added to the OpenRSA blog, relating to some work I’m doing in collaboration with Seb Schmoller: I’m looking for examples of organisations (or looser affiliations of individuals) who are using social software for professional development. Does anyone have any suggestions that I could follow up? By social software I […]
Does the nature of social networks limit their growth?
One idea in John Naughton’s 02007 round-up/02008 predictions struck me: that social networks like MySpace and Facebook “are likely to peak because ego-centric social networking is intrinsically limiting: after you’ve ‘befriended’ everyone you know, what else is there to do?”. He continues, Next year will see mass outbreaks of a Facebook fatigue, as busy professionals […]