<p>If you missed the live webcast today on enterprise social networking, you can listen to the replay my following this link:</p> <p><a href="http://www.brighttalk.com/channels/750/view">Enterprise Social Networks: A Field Research Study</a></p> <p>The webcast will show up under "Recorded" with a date of March 18, 2009. It's about 45 minutes in length. Feel free to leave comments/questions here and I'll answer them as quickly as possible.</p> <p>If you are interested in the topic of enterprise social networking, I will be running a workshop on the topic which will go much further into the results from this field research project. </p> <p>Burton Group's <a href="http://www.catalyst.burtongroup.com/Na09/">Catalyst conference</a> will be in San Diego, July 27-31. Catalyst is a very unique attendee experience. If you are interested, check out the conference site and talk to folks in your organization about attending. The workshop  session outline is below:</p> <p><strong><a href=

Craig Thomler's notes from the Google in Government Symposium on Wednesday 18th March, 2009.

Burton Group initiated an in-depth field research study to help clients understand the business, organizational, and technical factors to consider when formulating social networking strategies and initiating internal projects. High level findings are: Getting started is difficult, but not impossible; Addressing business and cultural needs early on is critical; Facilitating social participation requires creative thinking; and Enabling social environments is challenging for IT organisations.