I was recently talking to a headhunter who ONLY does Social Media recruiting. It was an interesting conversation to say the least. He was looking for several 20 somethings to fill positions for Social Media managers. As I tried to provide him with some names we ended up chatting about the State of the Social Media market right now and that led to a conversation about Social Media consultants.

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His problem, as he explained, was…

Recently Guy Kawasaki has been getting flamed for his twitter promotion of his new book "Enchantment"  Guy uses a twitter aggregator to schedule his tweets and the same "tweet" was running just a bit too often for some of his followers.  In their eyes it was just  too much self promotion.…

I can only speak for my slice of the manufacturing world, the exhibitors of IMTS-The International Manufacturing Technology Show, held biennially at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. 

Here is what I see; the adoption is slow but growing. 

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When Göran Fredrik Göransson founded Sandvik in 1862, he knew nothing about web based social collaboration. He was an innovator with ideas and solutions that turned the industry up side down though, and as he was constantly visiting customers around the world, he definitely knew what important ingredient social collaboration was for success.

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