In “In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?”, Malcom Gladwell describes how Intellectual Ventures works to bring together really smart people from different disciplines -physicians, physicists, inventors - in the hopes of generating a vast number of profitable patents. The company puts a group of creative, inventive people in the same room and [...]

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Since we come face to face with it so frequently in the enterprise, it’s always a good idea to keep abreast of what SharePoint offers when it comes to E2.0. I blogged before about how Microsoft is avoiding rolling content creation capabilities into the platform to preserve other revenue streams, but there is  still a [...]

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Stewart Mader, the mastermind behind Wikipatterns, recently asked us to guest blog. Clearly he was either experiencing a temporary lapse in judgement, or had been drinking heavily at the time but nonetheless, the post is up!
Go check it out and make sure to browse the rest of his great content. Thanks Stewart!

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Gia Lyons, who spent a while at IBM trying to show companies what’s possible with social software, now works for Jive. While checking out her blogged new employee interview, I found this especially insightful:
Customers are willing to go with pure play and niche vendors for social software because they recognize that a fresh approach is [...]

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The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technology blog just posted on the best way to update a blog on SharePoint. They suggest two pieces of client software:

Microsoft Word 2007 or
Windows Live Writer

While I’m sure both of these are great programs, and good ways to generate rich content; promoting the use of client software as a [...]

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