thanks @davied for great TED-presentation (20 min.) of Clay Shirky http://twurl.nl/dd0z42 - many interesting perspectives on social media

Reading: great! 15 objections to using Social Learning - "Objection #15 - The Silent Yet Deadly" ( http://tinyurl.com/677ds9 )

interesting: when searching at Google with "the tipping point by malcolm bradwell" - my blog is at position #1 : http://tinyurl.com/5pah49

search on "the tipping point by malcolm bradwell" my blog is at position #1 - even before Amazon and www.gladwell.com (book author) - nice!

Reading: "Disqus Wants to Own the Commentsphere; It Just Might" ( http://tinyurl.com/6x8z7v )

excellent overview picture (with catagories)of main Web 2.0 platforms; will use this for explaining this topic: http://tinyurl.com/6kw4x8

great! improvement in feedly feedreader at: "Feedly Launches a River of News" http://tinyurl.com/6c68br

excellent article on feedback mechanisms in social media: http://tinyurl.com/637rah

Posted on my blog: "The Trusted Advisor - Best books on consultancy part 1 ( http://tinyurl.com/6gr7ug )

Reading: "50 Ways To Use Twitter" (#2 in Business category of Squidoo.com) ( http://tinyurl.com/5n9daa )

Looking at: "My Linking Power Forum" - interesting Social Media site ( http://tinyurl.com/3y5grb )

Hi Chris @aakelley - I see you are also working at Siemens!

Reading: these Windows Live Write plugins at "Windows Live Gallery" makes my blogging live more easy! recommended! http://tinyurl.com/2ovec9

Reading: retweet "The Rise and Fall of Twitter" - funny parody video on Twitter ( http://tinyurl.com/58lymd )

Reading: "Twitter Trojan targets tossers | The Register" ( http://tinyurl.com/5rewa2 )

hi @bensmithson I am working at Siemens IT Solutions and Services in the Netherlands; nice to meet you too!

Dutch Government 2.0 community site at: http://ambtenaar20.ning.com/ (all in Dutch); setup by some visionary civil servants!

Reading: "Government 2.0: A Theory of Social Government" ( http://tinyurl.com/63d745 )

USA national debt movie coming this august - 2miinutes YouTube trailer at http://tinyurl.com/5eo4gj

retweet - great post of @chrisbrogan http://tinyurl.com/69o2rm - '50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider'

Reading: @davied : "Congress Gets Their Hands on Social Media - ReadWriteWeb" ( http://tinyurl.com/5zgse9 )

another example of a company embracing it's customers: Lego and www.lugnet.com (from 'The Groundswell')

SalesForce.com asking their customers which new features should be implemented: http://ideas.salesforce.com/ (from 'The Groundswell')

Bearing Point open sources methodology MIKE2.0: http://twurl.nl/1mpnxw (mentioned in 'The Groundswell')

social search now integrated in Google search: "Feedly Now Integrates With Google Search" http://tinyurl.com/6pk7wx