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Free (but requires registration) tool from Newsgator to assess your enterprise's social computing readiness. Via itsinsider.com.

Shane Schick on their recent seminar with IBM on BPM during a recession. I love his comment "There was no mention of the bitter, resentful naysayers who have to be dragged in kicking and screaming to a BPM kick-off meeting and who remain so welded to outmoded, cumbersome processes that they inhabit like an old winter jacket that they gum up any attempt to untangle process inefficiencies and introduce automation."

CASCON call for papers. This is a great free conference hosted by IBM Centers for Advanced Studies in Toronto, to be held November 2-5. Abstracts for papers are due on May 11, on a variety of subjects from cloud computing to database infrastructure.

Ideas for how to get social networking and collaboration working in your organization. Also see three previous articles, linked at beginning of this one, on collaboration in the enterprise.

Keith Swenson jumps back into the debate. Some good points about how BPEL isn't made to support long-running processes when their structure needs to change.

Ideas on process discovery, mostly about putting either the modeling tools or an early version of the proposed system in the hands of the users to get their feedback.

The what, how and why of Twitter.