social systems

You may or may not have heard that Best Buy, when recently announcing they were hiring a director of emerging media listed a requirement that qualified applicants have a minimum of 250 + followers on Twitter. This launched a flurry of debate specific to this one issue, but the bigger issue as we've discussed here before is that organizations are increasingly looking for individuals who can not only fit into their corporate culture—but also poses a DEEP knowledge in all things related to social business.

by: David Armano

I've described tightly knit online communities as "clusters" and manifestations of social media such as blogs (or widgets) as "connectors".  In recent weeks I've read a couple of perspectives that emphasize preferences for one over the other.  Some of us like forums:

by: David Armano

When we think about social networks—we tend to focus on the connecting
nodes.  The links that bind us and what makes a network, a network. 
But the less frequently told story is the one where we spend countless
hours building and maintaining our own little "social solar systems".  In these "social systems" we have multiple planetary ecosystems revolving around us.