Twitter definitely makes watching the Super Bowl much more fun. It seemed, at least among my circle, everyone was more interested in the ads than the game. However it was a GREAT game and yea! for the Saints!

Last week I discussed 3 key steps an organization needs to consider as they travel up the on-ramp to the Social Media Highway. Overall, those steps included:

I really enjoyed George Dearing's post on Social Computing Journal that asks "Will 2010 Be The Year Social Media Stops Being A Shiny Object?"

I completely stole the title of this post from a discussion that is happening on Linkedin. I chimed in on the discussion around  #1600 of the comments.

This is the final post of the Very Near Future of the Web series, and possibly the most intimating for me to write. The reason is the crystal ball is still very fuzzy when it comes to the Semantic Web as far as how close we are and how it will evolve. 

Over the past few years social media has become as much part of our lives as the Internet itself. Because of increasing bandwidth, interactivity, and the mobility of the web, we can expect that our online social networks will become as much a part of our lives as our offline communities.

Even if this sounds too sci-fi for your taste, I highly recommend that you read on. 

My father was the type of person who always had to have the latest entertainment or tools of convenience as soon as they were released to the market. I recall having one of the first Microwave ovens, VCRS, On TV (before Cable), then we had cable, then Satellite (the really big dish), and so on and so on.

I have the great privilege to be the founder and Chair of the TAG Enterprise 2.0 society. We are currently in the process of planning our 3rd year. Yet each planning meeting still starts with the question "What is Enterprise 2.0?"

Of course, it is not as easy as two steps...what were you thinking!?!