I write you, all of this week, from beautiful Switzerland. More precisely: beautiful Ticino within beautiful Switzerland. 

Some news research brought me back across the region's very first fully electronic news source, and location of one of my earliest jobs, Tio.ch. It was so long ago that most of my articles are archived now: I was still at university and joined the team as a cultural correspondent and, later, tech correspondent from the US (I was studying in New York). The most fun I have had on a job before Linex. 

I just came across this image from Reflections of a Knowledge Manager blog. If ever an image made a concept clear:

There is somewhat of an oxymoron in this title. Social Media - as the title suggests - is public and far-reaching. "Internal" automatically puts limits on the reach of a message. Many of us use social media tools precisely for this vast reach, so we can learn from others, network and hold virtual conversations about topics of interest. All of which we want to do within our organisations as well. 

This conflict is raised in an article by Oz Benamram - friend to Linex Systems - printed on the Managing Partner blog: Why most law firms' internal collaboration systems are doomed to fail. 

Well, video anyway. 

I blogged about Walking Meetings recently, picking up an article by Nilofer Merchant. 

If you're more of an audio person, I show you the TED video

... just in case you are on the losing end of a battle from the previous post. 

I jest, of course. This was the title of another session I attended at the SEAALL conference, run by Steve Lastres. 

The ideas and tactics he explained in this presentation were really about networking on social media, just with added attention to resumè building and job searching. The main points however a good roadmap to using social media to grow your network in general.