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Nov19
The Double-Edged Sword Of Being Cutting Edge
Social media, for all its potential and hype, is still in the early stages of its adoption life cycle within the business world. The adoption rate of blogs with the Fortune 500 is only 8%. Wikis, social networking, podcasts, crowdsourcing, tagging and more are just starting to be explored by companies.

A friend of mine recently asked me about the implications of such a low adoption rate.

My answer is that it is a double-edged sword. Sword.jpg

On one hand, the low adoption rate represents a huge growth opportunity for companies in the space.

The flip side is that those same companies have a huge educational challenge in helping potential customers overcome organizational and habitual inertia.

The good news for you is that if you're blogging and reading blogs, you're ahead of the curve. The sad news is that you haven't heard the last utterance of:

"What is a blog?

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