ExpertLabs released an exciting new product named ThinkUp(http://thinkupapp.com/). We will chat with Anil Dash and Gina Trapani to learn more about what ThinkUp is and how it will be evolving.

The Anti-Complexity Patent

Small IT projects usually succeed. Large IT projects usually fail. Why? Large IT projects are complex. Small IT projects are simple. The simpler the project, the more likely it is to succeed. But what if you could find a way to remove the complexity of large IT projects without reducing their size? What if you could find a way to make large IT projects as simple to do as small ones?

The Anti-Complexity Patent was granted for exactly this purpose. There are many patents for systems that try to model complexity, understand complexity, or track complexity. This is the first patent ever granted for a system to remove complexity.

We will catch up with Adriel Hampton, Gov20 Radio Host. Adriel will share his thoughts on how Government 2.0, Social Media in Government,is progressing.

On March 1, Michigan State University announced a social media research and development partnership with INgage Networks, an award-winning enterprise social software provider.

We will be following up with Dean Pamela Whitten and EVP Dan Miller.

Pamela Whitten is the Dean of the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University and a professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media.

Dan Miller is the Executive Vice President of Business Strategy at INgage Networks and the former President and CEO of MOVO Mobile.

We will explore the projects that are underway. Come with your pencils sharpened, we're going back to school.

We will be chatting with Dr. John Bates, CTO of Progress Software to learn more about how the Responsive Process Management (RPM) Suite Progress has developed is helping customers. We'll discuss a few real-world examples and we should learn a lot in the process. See you there.

Join us as we chat with Lougan Bishop, Web Specialist at Belmont University (www.belmont.edu). We will discuss how Belmont is innovating in this difficult economy and break down some of the false beliefs around the ability of higher education to embrace change.".

I will skip the weekly top stories as I have the pleasure of a special guest host, Craig Newmark. Craig is the Founder of Craigslist and a Government 2.0 Evangelist.

Craig and I will talk Government 2.0 shop and take some time to gain from his deep insights.

I hope you can stop by for what is sure to be a great show.

Great title, I know. In addition, we'll have a great guest, Michael Wu, Principle Scientist at Lithium Technologies.

As Michael noted to me in email:

"The idea of social ecosystem is to bring everyone on the same page when speaking of social media. Your initial post breaks down the entities at different granularity from unit to organization to ecosystems, which are concepts that are already understood by people.

The idea of cyber anthropology is to user social anthropological principles to explain why people behave the way they are on social media. It is the why of social media, and it is the “social” of social media. Since people generally have a good understanding of how human behave in real life through social interactions, social anthropology offers a good organizing principle to understand the social interaction online."

I hope you'll join, listen, and engage as we explore this interesting aspect of the social world we're living in today.

Stop by and hear my thoughts on the top stories related to The Social Ecosystem, Government 2.0, Social CRM, Marketing,and more. Weigh in and make sure I don't leave out your top stories.



Special Guest this week is Chris Moore, CIO for the City of Edmonton. Chris will be reviewing Edmonton in Second Life, the focus of the project, and where it is today.

John will review the top stories that have caught his eye at this point through the week.

We will then have a couple of people joining the show to discuss the ROI of social media and there are definitely differences of opinion entering the show. Our guests will be:

- Luis Suarez, Social Computing Evangelist at IBM
- Mark Masterson