On my services page, I [used to] have summarized my perspectives on 21st century work. It’s called: Adapting to Life in Perpetual Beta.

1. There is no such thing as a social media strategy.
2. There are only business strategies that understand networks.
3. Collaborative and distributed work is becoming the norm.
4. Social learning is how work gets done in networks.
5. Sharing, enabling conversations and transparency are some of the values of networked business.
6. This is done through knowledge-sharing, self-directed learning and user-generated content.
7. Learning is part of work, not separate from it.

This too, is in perpetual Beta …