I recently read an article about Google Wave. It’s an interesting concept that seemingly will take social media and collaboration to the next level.  (wave.google.com).  The aspect that I particularly find interesting is that aspect that, Google wave proclaims to integrate multiple collaboration efforts together.  This will be a nice change if in fact it is true.  In contrast, some of the social media solutions like Facebook and MySpace lack the professional feel and require that you have a login and account. Most apprehension with our consulting clients is the fact that it seems to “childish” and that it seems to isolate you and your data from the rest of the world.  Although, there are some tools to post and push content to multiple social media websites, they are not very robust.  Also, getting data out of one social media tool and into another is cumbersome.  It will be interesting to see if Google can pull this off.  Stay tuned.

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