This is a screenshot from some nice research by Nielsen, called Global Online Media Landscape. Although it was already posted in April, it shows that the different social networks have overtaken email in terms of usage for communication in February this year; member communities and social networks are now an equally preferred method of conversation.

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Last Tuesday we went to the congress ‘social networks for organizations’, as we announced a little while ago. The congress was organized by Essentials Media, and was meant to give more insight into the usefulness of social networks for organizations. Throughout the day, different speakers tried to answer some fundamental questions as to why social [...]

Tim Berners-Lee: “The web is more a social creation that a technical one. I designed it for a social effect – to help people work together – and not as a technical toy.”