Are you ready for the second wave of social media? — from smartblogs.com by Jesse Stanchak

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

When people ask what the next big thing in social media will be, they’re usually looking for an ascendant platform that will supplant Facebook the way Facebook supplanted MySpace or they’re expecting a feature set, such as geo-location or group messaging. But what if it’s not a network or a tool? What if it’s an application?

“Internal social media is the second wave … the future of work is in communities,” said Cisco’s Andrew Warden at this week’s Corporate Social Media Summit.

Warden gave the crowd four reasons to start looking at internal social tools…

 

From DSC:
My thanks to Tracy Gravesande for posting this item over at the “The Social Learning Community Network” (a Yammer-based community of practice)

Also of potential interest here is:

 

Addendum on 7/5/11: