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Interesting, yesterday must have been (serendipitously)
business/social networking day at IBM.

For I spent the afternoon at IBM's CASCON Toronto conference participating
in a session on Social Computing which attempted (but didn't get far) at
addressing whether "social computing .. is a viable business tool."
 Barry Wellman
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  Barry Wellman   S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology   NetLab Director
  Centre for Urban & Community Studies          University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue    Toronto Canada M5S 2G8    fax:+1-416-978-7162
  wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
        for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, SOCNET automatic digest system wrote:
> Dan Novak - Alliance Executive, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences
> 6821 Sawgrass, Fort Worth TX  76132     817-870-3956
>
> Re:
> Date:    Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:11:31 -0500
> From:    Dan Novak <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Corporate America embraces social networking
>
> http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_4499833
>
> Per the SOCNET discussion a few weeks ago, this article attemps to compare
> MySpace with business applications
>
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