There’s been a slew of stories about people posting embarrassing or boneheaded things on their Twitter or Facebook profiles without realizing that their boss, friends or clients could see the posting, and that it ultimately led to disaster – stories including pictures of people spending the night partying, lying about calling in sick, or [...]

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Here’s my impression of a web 2.0 company making a pitch to a venture capital firm from between 2006-2008: I’ve got this really great idea to build this service that everyone will love, no one will be able to live without, people will tell all their friends about, and users will add their own content.  [...]

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Two things about ESN (enterprise social networking) and ESC (enterprise social computing) solutions bother me.  One: often times people talk about the features using empty buzzwords that fail to succinctly describe what people really want to do.  Second: a lot of proclaimed ESN/ESC tools get lumped together, even though they really only offer a partial [...]

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