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blogs and websites such as 9rules or digg are great for research. I can't really remember any really good books on the subject besides Wikinomics.

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Thanks Rich, that is interesting.

I'm curious to see what happens in the future for those teachers who are WAY behind on technology. For example I know a graduate student and her professor is supposed to be using online software (Blackboard) but his skills are substandard and it's making the entire class question his intelligence (but he's teaching about law).

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I do believe social sites are changing the way people interact, look for it to be embraced at the corporate structure level one day.

I do believe social sites are changing the way people interact, look for it to be embraced at the corporate structure level one day.

If you count MOSS/Sharepoint, then it's getting there.

Moss/Sharepoint? What's that? I've never heard of it...

MOSS (or Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) is a web application that Microsoft has made mostly for organizations to organize information. From what I've seen it's mostly used for document repository but it looks to attempt to allow for collaboration and interaction between individuals, allowing them to connect with people within their organization that they didn't know had similar interests or contacts. Our company has implemented some of it into our intranet but not everything yet. I'm no Sharepoint expert but I can see the potential for it although it's hard to get people to drop their old habits on how they work.

We use Sharepoint where I work -- which is an organisation employing over 4,000 people. And, as a_romig says, it does tend to get used mostly for document repository.

I've been knee-deep in Sharepoint for the last few weeks trying to mould it into something a little sexy for my department, and I've realised it's actually got so much more to offer than document storage. It's a really powerful collaboration tool.

I don't really agree with the social networking aspect you're implying though, a_romig. I mean, sure, the very nature and funcion of it facilitates multi-user interaction, but it's almost entirely focussed on existing networks (departments within an organisation, for example), so you don't meet new people so much as you collaborate with people you already know.

There's no facility for user discovery as far as I can see, nor a way of "connecting" with other users. So I don't think you could really class it as a social networking tool.

Just my opinion, anyway.

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