I don’t recall exactly how it happened but some time in the early part of last week, my boss and I somehow ended up discussing email and keeping current with all of the email one receives. It is easy to get completely buried in email. I had one boss I had a couple of years ago explain the theory of email bankruptcy and how he tries to limit extreme to no more than once a year! He was my boss, I couldn’t tell him how awful I thought that idea …

I use a few social networks (mostly Facebook, LinkedIn and Last.fm) and see the value of each of them. I’ve been thinking how can a similar concept be used within organizations. What would be a useful way to take some aspects from each of those sites to create something which would be useful to organizations?
LinkedIn is great for maintaining your external business contacts and for keeping in touch with former co-workers. But it really doesn’t do much more than that.
Facebook is fun, but I’ve yet to completely …