Harmon.ie commissioned a recent study that reported digital distractions have become a major issue at work. They affect both work and time outside work hours, often blurring the distinction between the two. For example, the majority of people under the age of 40 stay digitally-connected in bed, and 44% of people stay connected during a [...]

In the world of the social Web, product recommendations by individuals seems to be gaining more credibility that those by the product producers. But do employees tend to recommend the products that their company produces? This is a question that Matt Brown asks in the Forrester report, Do Your Employees Advocate For Your Company? It [...]

I have written about crowdsourcing a bit on this blog (see for example: GE Crowdsources Green Ideas Through its Open Innovation Challenge, Building Enterprise 2.0 into the Product Development Process, and Cisco Launches Second I-Prize Competition) but it has been largely from a company perspective. Now Forester presents data indicating that sixty-one percent of all US [...]

AIIM recently published a useful study on Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0. It provides more encouraging news for enterprise 2.0. It finds that business take up of enterprise 2.0 has doubled in the last year. This supports the study from Toby Ward I recently posted on (see New Study Finds Social Media Becoming Mainstream on Corporate [...]