Adoption of social tools for collaboration requires sharing

"Sharing" by ryancr, on Flickr

I have been busy the past three to four months shifting my base and settling in the suburb of Bangalore (technically a different state altogether) and this has taken a toll on my work as well as my social media engagement. Nevertheless, I am slowly getting back on track with quite a truck load of stuff to be done and trust to be regained at the workplace. The task of highest & immediate priority is helping in resubmitting a year 2015 plan for our group, incorporating the 1st round of review comments. And one of the key components is - justifying the further investments into 'social' by providing, among other things, estimated market size.

TED talks on listening, smiling & a social technology called language

These are some recent TED talks that I found to be very relevant to my interests in online communities, social computing & remote collaboration.

Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better