Shel Israel recently wrote about what he perceives as two camps with very different views of how social media can be used by organizations:

Camp #1

…those who understand that social media is something new and different from traditional marketing. It is not about putting messages into foreheads. It is about the enormous wisdom and efficiency to be gained simply by having conversations with customers, prospects, employees and partners. [Read more]

The new Wikibility Workplaces series being penned by Vincenzo Cammarata was featured in Great Blogs of Fire, the popular serial posting on The Buzz Bin by Larissa Fair and Geoff Livingston, author of the excellent Now is Gone: A primer on New Media for Executives and Entrepreneurs.

Stewart Mader shows us eight key cultural drivers to wiki success. He discusses what attitudes make an innovation oriented organization a “wikible” workplace or – in other words – a workplace where Wiki really works in an effective way?

Thanks Geoff and Larissa!

Mark Ghosh of Weblog Tools Collection has a good post on peoples’ motivation for commenting on blogs. It got me thinking about the conversation here:

Have you commented recently? Not commented yet? What usually motivates you to post a comment here? I really enjoy reading and responding to the comments you all post, so please keep ‘em coming!

More worldwide praise for 21 Days of Wiki Adoption –
this time from Romania, the Netherlands, and the US:

Sara Bocaneanu, who blogs about knowledge management in Romania, writes:

My favorite point so far?

Don’t have a pilot wiki with just early adopters… People remain skeptical even if the early adopters are gushing. If, instead, you use a mixed group with some regular users and some skeptics, people will pay attention to what they’re saying! [Read more]

A WikiCharter is a set of guidelines to ensure productive interaction between members of your wiki community. Here are five guidelines from the Sony Ericsson Developer World wiki:

Clay Shirky’s new book is out today: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations It’s on Amazon, and it looks really good.

If you’re in Cambridge, MA, Clay is speaking about the book at the Berkman Center at Harvard tonight:

“Here Comes Everybody” is about the social changes coming as a result of the internet’s power to support group action. Sharing, conversation, collaboration, collective action; all of these forms of group effort have been hampered by the myriad real-world difficulties of finding and coordinating with others. Our new group-forming media have removed many of those difficulties, and we are in the middle of a transformation of all kinds of group action.

More info on the Berkman Center Events & Webcasts blog.