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Digital Identity – we create our selves!

Jonas Klit Nielsen In a recent post, I wrote that two of the most essential aspects of social media for me, are closely related: human beings or people on one hand and identity on the other. They might even be the same.

The post was about the human aspect, this one is about identity!

The homepage at mindjumpers.com, shows a huge monkey with a board in his hands. On the board, something is written.
 
Why a monkey? It’s not that important for this post, it depicts where we think social media are on ‘their’ evolution scale right now.  What’s important for this post, is the writing on the board. It says: “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating Yourself!”.

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IDC finds increasing use of social media tools in the enterprise

End of last week, IDC published the results of a study that looked at the impact of Web 2.0, social media, etc. on business and the way people work. The research company looked at the “intersection of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration”.

The main finding, as IDC puts it: “Social business goes mainstream in the “enterprise”.

According to IDC the emergence of the social web has a significant impact on the way businesses work and interact with their customers, partners, etc. And all this implies significant changes in terms of company culture and processes.

The survey found that 57% of U.S. workers use social media business purposes, at least once a week.

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